1. The Human Brain

2. Temporal Lobe
hearing, taste and smell (this is on the outside of the brain)

3. Parietal Lobe
imagery and logical thinking
like mathematics, logical sequencing, etc. but not planning (this is on the outside of the brain)

4. Occipital Lobe
- Vision (this is on the outside of the brain)

5. Frontal Lobe
- Impulse control, planning, personal memory, personality (this is on the outside of the brain)

6. Corpus Collosum
-the band of fibers that connect the two halves of the brain.
It is like the brain’s super highway constantly sending signals back and forth between the two halves.

7. Thalamus
-highway for the impulses from visual, auditory, and somatosensory information to the cerebral cortex (the only sense it doesn’t process is that of smell)

8. Pituitary Gland
-Regulates stress, growth, reproduction, and lactation hormones

9. Pineal Gland
-produces melatonin and serotonin which regulates sleep and is lacking in depressed patients

10. Amygdala
feeding, fighting,
and self preservation behaviors (aggression comes from this part of the brain)

11. Hippocampus
-long term memories, learning, and forgetting (it decides what information is worth storing and what information we probably won’t need in the future) --

12. Pons
-the bridge to the
cerebellum which allows us to walk without deep processing and helps regulate the wake and sleep cycle -

13. Medulla
-heart rate, blood flow,
respiratory movement, vomiting, and cranial nerves (without the Medulla we cannot survive)

14. Brain Stem -begins where the spinal chord enters the skull
at the midpoint where the two halves connect. It connects the brain to the spinal chord.(The neck is part of the spinal chord not the brain stem).It sends signals down to the body and receives impulses from the body

15. Motor Cortex
-controls skeletal and
muscle movements
(located where a girl’s headband is).
Movement is made by contracting the muscle

16. Sensory Cortex
information
regarding stimulation received and processed, it is
located right behind the motor cortex

17. Cerebellum
-1/8 of the brain, it
controls motor function and balance (it receives input from the inner ear and eyes for reference). It sends impulses to the muscles to achieve balance. It also has the ability to have muscle memory.