BRAIN

BRAIN PARTS AND FACTS

• The brain weighs around three pounds.
• The brain gets information through the five senses.
• The brain stores an infinite amount of information

CEREBRUM

• The cerebrum is the largest part of your brain and contains around one billion nerve cells!

BRAIN LOBES

• There are four lobes the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal.
• Each lobe has different purpose in the brain.

FRONTAL LOBES

• The frontal lobe is in charge of, speech, emotions, behavior and personality.
• The frontal lobe also develops last.

PARIETAL LOBE

• The parietal lobe is in charge of language, touch pain, temperature, and interpreting space.

OCCIPTAL LOBE

• The occipital lobe interprets movement, light, vision, and color.

TEMPORAL LOBE

• The temporal lobe does organization, memory, hearing,sequencing, and understanding language or languages.

HYPOTHALAMUS

• The hypothalamus is in charge of making sure your hunger, thirst, emotions, sleep tempeture, and blood pressure are in check.
• It's the master autonomic system

CRANIAL NERVES

• There are twelve cranial nerves.
• Ten of the cranial nerves control hearing, facial sensations, eye movement, swallowing, taste, movement of the face, neck, shoulder, and tongue.

PITUITARY GLAND

• The pituitary gland secretes hormones, responds to stress, and fights disease.

MENINGES

• There are three layers the dura matter, arachnoid matter, and the pia matter.
• The meninges protect the brain and the spinal cord.

MEMORY

• There are three types of memory long term, short term, and skill memory.
• Long term memory can hold a infinite amount of memory. It is located In the hippocampus and activates when you want to memorize something for a long time.
• Short term memory can remember seven things at a time and when you want to keep something it goes to long term memory.
• Skill memory is in the cerebellum and it lets you do something you've already learned to do like tying a shoe.

THE RIGHT AND LEFT BRAIN

• The right side of your controls personality, music, spatial abilities, art, creativity, intuition, and the right side of your body.
• The left side controls math, logic, reading, writing, analysis, and language.

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