Brain Structures, Functions, & Facts

Brain Structures, Functions, & Facts structure location Bottom of the brain brainstem pons medulla oblongata cerebellum midbrain reticular formation (3D) thalamus hypothalamus function (3D) Makes you feel your senses and controls vital function to live everyday life. which human action(s) does it control? application (example): Heart rate, breathing, sleep/wake cycle, and temp regulation Exercising, touching stuff, and sleeping at the same time everyday Tells your body to In the brain stem, breath, go to sleep, connecting midbrain to wake up, and helps the medulla oblongata with balance and hearing Sleeping, waking up, breathing, and taste, balance, and hearing Adjusting your breathing during a workout to get enough oxygen Relays sensory Base of the brain and information, connects connected to the spinal brain and body, cord regulated reflexes, balance, and posture Motor control, reflexes, Swallowing food, and blood pressure, and breathing heavy during more sensory exercise information Near the mid to back section Back of the brain, behind brainstem Coordinates voluntary muscle movement and maintains muscle tone (muscle memory) and refines and helps learn new motor skills. Fine-tuning movements, balance and posture, and learning new motor skills Processes visual and In the brain stem, that auditory information, Eye movements, connects the forebrain tunes coordination, and hearing, and vision and hindbrain controls eye movements Brainstem to the midbrain Maintains wakefulness, influences muscle tone Posture, balance, and posture, and breathing, and pain contributes to pain management perception Walking and moving eyes around when looking at things When you get startled it sends a message for you to jump or flinch Falling asleep easily and waking up easily Sensory relay, motor signal relay, special Pretty much right in sense relay, and the middle of the brain regulation of consciousness Vision, audition, and alertness When someone touches you, you can feel it Regulates body temp, hunger and thirst signals, hormone release, and mood Control of various bodily functions and controls body temperature When you are cold you start to shiver to generate body heat. Center of the brain above the brain stem hippocampus Deep in the temporal lobe Memory formation, Learning, special awareness, and remembering, and emotional processing spatial navigation amygdala Next to the hippocampus in the temporal lobe Fear and threat detection, emotional processing, memory formation, and social cognition Fight or flight, rapid Flinching at a sudden reflexes, and emotional loud noise reactions corpus callosum Along the midline of the brain Communication, coordination, integration, and high order cognition Reading, riding a bike, When you read you can bimanual tasks understand it frontal lobe makes sense of the world around you, front of head from mid connects to every part to front of the brain, & helps filter info Remembering the location of your house decision making, grocery lists, figuring personality, movement, out what to focus on, working memory outgoing/extroversion Middle of the brain above the temp lobe Helps perceive temp, pressure, and pain and Hand movements and helps us understand spatial reasoning where our body parts are Reading a map temporal lobe On the sides and the middle of the brain Auditory processing, memory formation, language comprehension, and object recognition Understanding words, recognizing faces, visual memories, and automatic reactions Helps regulate appetite and unconscious bodily functions occipital lobe Back of the brain Process visual information Recognizing visual Knowing the color and stimuli like identifying shape of a red apple a face or object Front of the brain Fine motor skills, gross motor movements, facial expressions, and speech Executing purposeful movements and receives input from other brain areas parietal lobe motor cortex sensory cortex Dead middle of the (“somatosensory” on 3D) brain endocrine system (3D) All over the body Swinging your golf club because you want a hole in one Knowing the Processes touch, temp, Feeling the texture and temperature and pain, and bodily temperature of an texture of a hot bowl of perception object soup Uses hormones as Puberty, muscle chemical messengers to growth, blood sugar, regulate various bodily and stress response functions Metabolism, growth and development, and reproduction brain Head area plasticity (3D) Enable the brain to adapt to it’s environment and experiences Learning and memory Recovery of function and recovery from a after a stroke brain injury