Functions of the major parts of brain
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| 238659646 | Brainstem | Relays messages between spinal cord and the brain, from brainstem cranial nerves to cerebrum. Helps control heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure. Involved with hearing, taste, and other senses | 0 | |
| 238659647 | Cerebellum | Process center involved with coordination of muscular movements, balance, precision, timing, body positions. Processes sensory information used by the motor systems | 1 | |
| 238659648 | Cerebral Cortex | Involved with most conscious activities for living | 2 | |
| 238659649 | Frontal lobe | involved with motor control of voluntary movements, reasoning, & control of emotional expressions and moral behavior | 3 | |
| 238659650 | Parietal lobe | Involved with general senses, taste | 4 | |
| 238659651 | Temporal lobe | Involved with hearing, equilibrium, emotion, and memory | 5 | |
| 238659652 | Occipital lobe | Organized for vision and associated forms of expression | 6 | |
| 238659653 | Limbic lobe | Involved with emotions, behavioral expressions, recent memory, and smell | 7 | |
| 238659654 | Cerebrum | Controls voluntary movements, coordinates mental activity, center for all conscious living | 8 | |
| 238659655 | Corpus callosum | Connects cerebral hemispheres, relays sensory information between them. Allows left and right hemispheres to share information, and unifies attention | 9 | |
| 238659656 | Hypothalamus | Highest integrating center for autonomic nervous system. Controls most of the endocrine system through its relationship with the pituitary gland. 5Fs | 10 | |
| 238659657 | Medulla Oblongata | Controls involuntary body functions not under conscious control - heartbeat, respiration, blood pressure, etc. | 11 | |
| 238659658 | Midbrain | involved with visual reflexes, movement of eyes, focusing of lens, dilation of pupils | 12 | |
| 238659659 | Pons | Controls respiratory functions and regulates dreaming | 13 | |
| 238659660 | Reticular Formation | Regulation of arousal, and involves respiratory and cardiovascular centers | 14 | |
| 238659661 | Thalamus | Sensory switchboard; Intermediate relay structure and processing center for all sensory information except smell. | 15 |
