2. 1. Why was Ms. Jensen worried about her son? 2. What is significant about teen’s frontal lobes? 3. What is the role of the frontal lobe? 4. What are some teenage behaviors that this could help to explain?

3.  The intricate fabric of interconnected neurons that form the body’s ultimate control and information processing center  Covers the brain’s lower level structures  Divided into four lobes and two halves

4.  Frontal Lobes  Parietal Lobes  Occipital Lobes  Temporal Lobes

6.  The long crevice that divides the cerebral cortex into left and right hemispheres  This and other fissures in the brain create major divisions in the brain called lobes

9.  The portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead  Is involved in advanced cognitive processing, planning, and judgment.  Includes the motor cortex  Damage? paralysis and personality change

11.  The strip of brain tissue at the rear of the frontal lobes.  Controls voluntary movement.  Different parts of the cortex control different parts of the body.

13.  Face  Arms  Hips  Tongue  Toes  Fingers  Lips

15.  Parts of the body that are capable of more intricate movements, demand more brain tissue.(examples: hands, face)

17.  The portion of the cerebral cortex lying on the top of the head and toward the rear.  Includes the somatosensory cortex and general association areas used in processing information.  Damage? trouble with sensory perception

20.  The portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head.  It includes the primary visual processing areas of the brain.  Damage? - selective blindness, difficulty identifying color, difficulty recognizing moving objects, blindsight

22.  Includes the auditory (hearing) areas of the brain. ◦ Auditory areas -> process sound, language comprehension ◦ facial recognition ◦ connected to emotional limbic system  Damage? difficulty processing sounds, inability to recognize faces (Prosopagnosia), feelings of spirituality (temporal lobe epilepsy)Prosopagnosia

24.  Location: Temporal Lobe - left hemisphere  Function: interprets the words that we hear or read  Damage: Wernicke’s Aphasia - impairment language comprehensionWernicke’s Aphasia  Symptoms: speech sounds normal but makes no sense

25.  Location: Frontal Lobe  Function: Generates any words that we speak  Damage: Broca’s Aphasia - able to comprehend speech but cannot express what they want to sayBroca’s Aphasia

26.  Corpus callosum Corpus callosum  Thick band of nerve fibers connecting the hemispheres ◦ It’s how the 2 hemispheres communicate ◦ Damage: disconnection between two sides of brain  Right-brained vs. left- brained? OR

27. Test

30.  Teen Brain’s Ability to Learn Can Have a Flip Side  Concussions in Kids: What Is Not Being Addressed

31.  How could damage to your frontal lobes effect you as an adult?  What are the real world consequences?