1. The Brain 86 BILLION neurons!!!

2. Particular regions have particular function

3. Cerebellum Coordinated movement Damage results in herky-jerky movement Can be overridden by frontal cortex Kuru  the laughing disease

4. Brain Stem Eye movement, body movement Vital body functions (breathing, heart rate) Sensory Analysis

5. Mid Brain Regulates emotions S.M.’s Amygdala Elliot loss of prefrontal area

6. Hippocampus H.M. becomes most studied brain in history Car crash in 1930s causes seizures Both hippocampus removed in 1953 Memory

7. Cerebral Cortex (hemispheres) Left and Right Broken into different sections Each with specific function

8. Temporal Lobe Process sensory input into meaning for Visual memories Language comprehension Emotional association Left lobe (face recognition) Right lobe (Pitch and sound) I bet I can make you sing! Stimulation= crisp memory and angelic visions/sounds

9. Temporal Lobe Incessant writing and ultra-religious Epileptics Experience specific aura before seizure Emanuel Swedenburg- dined with angels

10. Pareidolia

12. Bonnet ArmChest Nose

20. Occipital Lobe Visual stimulation Epilepsy How/where  Parietal What  Temporal for memories/emotions Swiss woman with Primary Visual Cortex Stroke Vision

21. Does it exist?

23. Occipital lobe seizures

24. Parietal Lobe Somatosensory processing ( touch ) Coordination of information from other parts of the brain Navigation Woodrow Wilson and Justice William Douglas Confabulation  Honest lying

25. Capgras Syndrome Missing “glow” of recognition

26. Cotard Syndrome Lose the personal “glow”

27. Frontal Lobe Conscious thought Personality Motor function Problem solving Social interaction

28. Drunk Driving

29. Driving Tired

30. Phineas Gage Railroad worker Tamping charges Tamping iron hit live charge Shot through his skull and landed many yards away Stayed standing!!

31. Phineas Gage

32. Frontal Lobotomy Used to control mental patients Scramble frontal lobe Person becomes zombie, very easy to control

33. Corpus Callosum Connects the 2 hemispheres Left controls right and Right controls left

34. Broca’s Area Control Speech Damage results in failure to form words Left Frontal Lobe

35. Wernicke’s Area Left Temporal Lobe Organize words in meaningful way

36. I say river, you say…

37. I say dog, you say…

38. Jokes

39. This next one’s gonna be good!

40. What does a brain do when it sees a friend across the street?

41. What does a brain do when it sees a friend across the street? Gives a little brain wave!

42. What is a sleeping brain’s favorite musical group?

43. What is a sleeping brain’s favorite musical group? REM

44. Links http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_kanwisher_ the_brain_is_a_swiss_army_knife#t-508065 Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8GRH 4xmN8 Serene Branson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVKDm4 PhEwI