THE BRAIN

PARTS OF YOUR BRAIN

FRONTAL LOBE

• Your personality, behavior, and emotion are from here.
• Here is where your intelligence, self-awareness, and concentration comes from
• It controls body movement
• Your judgement, planning and problem skills come from here.
• Speaking and writing are developed here.
• This area of the brain is in the front of your head.

OCCIPITAL LOBE

• Interprets what you see/vision
• Light, movement, and color are developed in this area of the brain
• This part of your brain is in the back of your head

TEMPORAL LOBE

• Part of the brain that understands language
• Memory is part of the Temporal Lobe
• Recognizes objects
• Organization skills are created here
• Interprets sound
• Is located on the side of your head

PARIETAL LOBE

• Located on top of your head
• Senses pain, touch, and temperature without this lobe you cannot feel temperature or pain
• Interprets words/language
• Knowledge of numbers, objects, shapes, and spaces
• Understands signals from hearing, motor, sensory, vision, and memory

CEREBELLUM

• It controls balance
• Contains info for voluntary motor skills
• Without a Cerebellum you cannot walk
• Located at back/bottom of your head

BRAIN STEM

• It connects the brain the body
• Keeps in checks/controls the automatic systems in our body (breathing, blinking...)
• If you damage the brain stem you will not be able to control everything in your body.
• Located near the neck

CEREBRUM

• Largest part of the brain
• Has two halves, left hemisphere and right hemisphere
• Each hemisphere controls the opposite side of your body

BRAIN FACTS

• The brain is part of the nervous system
• It controls everything we do
• The left side of your brain is in charge of language, logic, reading, writing, math and analysis
• The right side of the brain controls creativity, intuition, art, music, personality, and spatial abilities
• The brain is protected by the skull
• There are six parts of the brain
• Is a three pound organ

PITUITARY GLAND

• Size of an almond
• Reacts to stress
• Connected to the hypothalamus( Hypothalamus = controls thirst, blood pressure, emotion, and hunger
• Lays at bottom of skull
• Fights multiple diseases
• Is the "top" gland
• Controls hormones

CRANIAL NERVES

• 12 pairs of it
• 10 of the pairs controls facial sensations, hearing, taste, face movement, tongue, shoulders, swallowing, and neck

MEMORIES

Short Term Memory: Memorizes up to 7 items, stores info for ABOUT one minute, and is called a working memory.

Skill Memory: Relays info, stores automatic learnt memories, like writing, riding a scooter, and typing on a computer.

Long Term Memory: Unlimited storage and content, turned on when wanted to memorize something for a longer period of time, stores personal memories, and it is processed in the hippocampus.

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