3163979708 | Forebrain | responsible for thinking, processing. perceiving. producing, and understanding | 0 | |
3163987888 | Midbrain | Small central part of brain associated with vision, hearing, motor control, arousal, and temperature control | 1 | |
3163995509 | Hindbrain | First and most basic, basic functions | 2 | |
3163999668 | Medulla | Base of hind brain, automatically control heartbeat and breathing | 3 | |
3164004023 | Pons | coordinates messages from lower brain to upper brain, bundles messages to execute commands, may play role in dreaming, paralyzes body during sleep by turning off info coming down from higher brain | 4 | |
3164013546 | Reticular Formation | nerve network that travels through the brain stem into the thalamus, maintains consciousness and levels of arousal | 5 | |
3164019761 | Locus Coeruleus | nucleus of pons, involved in physiological response to stress and panic | 6 | |
3164023316 | Cerebellum | "little Brain" process sensory input, coordinates movement output and balance, enables nonverbal learning and memory (muscle control) | 7 | |
3164033322 | Substantia nigra | Small structure in the mid brain that is associated with motor control, eye movement, and emotion | 8 | |
3164038503 | Basil Ganglia | Group of nuclei that act as a cohesive functional unit, take part in voluntary motor control, procedural learning, eye movement, and cognitive emotional functions | 9 | |
3164046093 | Cerebrum | Complex Sensory and neural function and initiation and coordination of voluntary activity in body | 10 | |
3164055097 | Left Hemisphere | Control right side of the body, logical brain, words, login, number, language, analysis | 11 | |
3164061955 | Cerebral Cortex | Outer layer of the cerebrum, folded gray matter, role i consciousness | 12 | |
3164066311 | Hippocampus | Processing short term and long term memories: declarative, episodic, and spatial | 13 | |
3164100895 | Amygdala | processing of emotional reaction to stimuli: fear, PSTD | 14 | |
3164107627 | Hypothalamus | Controls maintenance functions such as eating, helps govern endocrine system, linked to emotion and reward | 15 | |
3164111859 | Pituitary Gland | master gland for endocrine system, controls growth and reward | 16 | |
3164115051 | Thalamus | serves and control center- send lower signals to correct sectors of higher cerebral cortex for processing | 17 | |
3164119494 | Corpus Callosum | information super highway between left and right hemisphere, can be cut to alleviate seizures split brain | 18 | |
3164125572 | Striatum | Part of basil ganglia, facilitates voluntary movement | 19 | |
3164130407 | Frontal Lobe | prefrontal cortex, executive functions, decision making, problem, solving, goal oriented behavior | 20 | |
3164140974 | Motor Cortex | executive muscle movements, different parts are devoted to different aspects | 21 | |
3164143715 | Brocas Area | Motor speech area, coordinates with motor cortex to create speech, can understand but cannot vocalzie | 22 | |
3164151754 | Parietal Lobe | controls sensory process, contains sensory cortex | 23 | |
3164155414 | Sensory Cortex | Process stimuli from skin and tongue (touch heat cold pain taste) | 24 | |
3164160068 | Occipital Lobe | primary visual cortex, vision, role in recognizing patterns | 25 | |
3164169671 | Visual Cortex | vision and patters | 26 | |
3164163029 | Temporal Lobe | Controls hearing and contains auditory cortex | 27 | |
3164171897 | Auditory Cortex | receives information from ears and is responsible for hearing | 28 | |
3164177062 | Wernickes Area | comprehension of language, cannot make sense of language, trouble with creating meaningful language | 29 |
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