The brain!

THIS JOURNAL UPDATE IS DEDICATED TO FANGSANGEL!
Corpus Callosum:

4 lobes within our brain. divider line between the 2 hemispheres.

Bundle of fibers that connects right and left hemisphere of the brain, allowing
communication between the two.

Located on both sides of the brain.

Temporal Lobe:

Highly associated with speech, hearing, and memory skills.

Houses Hippocampus(area of brain associated with memory)

Occipital Lobe:

Receives mathematical measurements taken from the lens of the eye. changes it into info that helps a person decide whether or not to respond to movement. Located in the back of the head.

Parietal Lobe:

cognition part of the brain. Works by instinct as it receives the sensations - such as pain, warmth, cold, pressure, and moment from the skin. Located between frontal and occipital lobe.

Frontal Lobe:

takes in all info that it can from other brain structures and decides what to do with info. Emotional control center and problem solving, judgement, impulse control, and social and sexual behavior area.

NOT fully develop until age 25. Front of the brain.

Pons:

allows us to breathe, sleep at the same time without dying.

Work with medulla oblongata to regulate oxygen and blood flow throughout body.

Thalamus:

regulates states of sleep, level of awareness and activity.

Cerebellum:

responsible for our basic muscle movements and body coordination(balance and movement)

Hypothalamus:

links to nervous system to the endocrine system

Pituitary Gland:

Secretes hormones and is functionally connected in the hypothalamus

Medulla Oblongata:

lowest part of the brain, connects the spinal cord to the brain.

works with pons to regulate blood flow and oxygen.

Reticular Activating System:

In the Hind Brain(Just behind the pons) and works by instinct.

Sleep cycle clock.

Governs the energy that is used by other brain and body functions.