4866036257 | Medulla Oblongata | Lower part of the brain stem; controls breathing and heart rate | ![]() | 0 |
4866036258 | Cerebellum | "Little brain" located below and behind the cerebrum; smooths movement; controls balance and coordination and things you do "automatically" like habits | ![]() | 1 |
4866036259 | Hypothalamus | below the thalamus; controls hunger, thirst, and temperature | ![]() | 2 |
4866036260 | Amygdala | controls emotions, especially fear | ![]() | 3 |
4866036261 | Hippocampus | Small area of each temporal lobe; allows us to store a memory | ![]() | 4 |
4866036262 | Thalamus | Part of the forebrain; relay station for sensory information | ![]() | 5 |
4866036263 | Pons | connects upper and lower parts of the brain; produces sleep chemicals (it's the "lump" on the brain stem) | ![]() | 6 |
4866036264 | Right Hemisphere | Controls the left side of the body; it is the more artistic and creative side of the brain | ![]() | 7 |
4866036265 | Left Hemisphere | Controls the right side of the body; it is the more academic and logical side of the brain; language areas (Broca's and Wernicke's) | ![]() | 8 |
4866036266 | Corpus Callosum | connects the right and left hemispheres | ![]() | 9 |
4866036267 | Cerebrum | Two hemispheres/Four lobes; Outermost layer (and largest part) of the brain; responsible for thinking and processing information from the five senses (Don't confuse with cerebellum - which means "little brain") | ![]() | 10 |
4866036268 | Frontal Lobe | responsible for thinking, decision making, and planning; also movement in the motor cortex | ![]() | 11 |
4866036269 | Parietal Lobe | Processes sensastion like temperature, pain, and touch in the somatosensory cortex (strip of brain at front of parietal lobe) | ![]() | 12 |
4866036270 | Temporal Lobe | processes auditory information (hearing) | ![]() | 13 |
4866036271 | Occipital Lobe | Bottom, back part of the cortex; processing visual information (sight) | ![]() | 14 |
4866036272 | reticular activating system or reticular formation | In the middle of the brainstem, it controls your "alertness"; without it, we would be in a "coma" as our brain would not send/receive signals | 15 | |
4866041110 | Broca's area | area of the frontal lobe in left hemisphere that directs muscle movements involved in speech; patients with damage have no trouble understanding language but are unable to speak; Dr. Broca's patient could only say "tan" | 16 | |
4866041111 | Wernicke's Area | Controls language reception. Damage creates inability to comprehend language and inability to create sentences (would speak gibberish); usually in the left temporal lobe | 17 | |
4866043096 | Motor cortex | an area of the brain, near the rear of the frontal lobes, that initiates voluntary movement | 18 | |
4866044646 | Somatosensory (sometimes just sensory) cortex | an area of the brain in the front of the parietal lobe that receives information on touch sensation, pain, and temperature | 19 | |
4866053579 | Primary Auditory Cortex | located in temporal lobe; receives info from the ear and auditory nerve; understands only basic sounds (this part of the brain does not interpret what you hear) | 20 | |
4866053580 | Primary visual cortex | In the occipital lobe, it receives only basic pieces of information in your sight (an edge, a curve, a color) and then the association area must interpret what is being seen | 21 | |
4866126893 | Cortex | outer layer of the brain that is packed with neurons (translates "bark") | 22 | |
4866129900 | grey matter | The portions of the central nervous system that are abundant in cell bodies of neurons rather than axons. The colour appears grey relative to white matter. | 23 | |
4866129901 | white matter | The portions of the central nervous system that are abundant in axons rather than cell bodies of neurons. The colour derives from the presence of the axon's myelin sheaths | 24 |
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