THE BRAIN BOOK

FRONTAL LOBE

• Function: personality/emotions, intelligence, attention/concentration, judgement, problem solving, Speech

PARIETAL LOBE

• Function: Process and interprets sensory information (pain taste, vision, hearing, touch, temp.) interprets language

OCCIPITAL LOBE

• Function: Vision

TEMPORAL LOBE

• Understanding language (Wernicke’s area), memory, hearing, organization.

VISUAL CORTEX

• Processes visual information from senses; allowing us to recognize faces and objects

AUDITORY CORTEX

• Processes auditory information

MOTOR CORTEX

• Controls voluntary movement; left side of brain controls righ side of body

SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX

• Receives and processes information for the senses; homunculus

CEREBRUM (LEFT AND RIGHT HEMISPHERE)

• Thoughts and actions

CEREBELLUM

• Coordinates muscle movement, maintain posture, and balance

HOMUNCULUS

• Processes motor functions, or sensory functions, for different parts of the body

BROCA’S AREA

• Speech production

WERNICKE’S AREA

• Language development

THALAMUS

• Relay station for almost all information that comes and goes to the cortex

BRAIN STEM-MEDULLA

• Controls life support functions like breathing and heartbeat

BRAIN STEM-PONS

• Coordinates movement

BRAIN STEM-MIDBRAIN

• Involved in the functions of vision, hearing, eye and body movements

AMYGDALA

• Responsible for fear, anger, aggression, and survival instincts

HYPOTHALAMUS

• Regulates hunger, thirst, sleep, body temp., blood press., emotions, secretes hormones

PINEAL GLAND

• Helps regulate the body’s internal clock and circadian rhythms by secreting melatonin

CORPUS CALLOSUM

• Allows information to pass from left to right and vice versa

5 FUN FACTS

• Average brain weighs 3lbs.(Piedmont healthcare )
• Made up of 75% water (ph)
• There is no evidence that a larger brain makes you smarter (ph)
• Average number of thoughts a person has each day is 70000 (ph)
• Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you create a connection in the brain (ph)