behaviour and mental process

• frontal lobe functions:

  • cognitive functions
  • emotions
  • personality and social skills
  • speech
• parietal lobe functions:

  • spatial awareness
  • receiving and processing sensory input (5 senses)
  • speech and writing
• temporal lobe functions:

  • hearing
  • memory
  • language and auditory comprehension
• occipital lobe functions:

  • vision
  • visual processing
  • visual memory
  • visual perception
  • visual awareness
• cerebral cortex functions:

  • sensory processing
  • motor control
  • memory
  • language
  • consciousness
• ABI biological effects:

  • muscle weakness
  • tremors
  • seizures
  • impaired sensory functioning
• ABI psychological effects:

  • anxiety or depression
  • memory loss
  • personality changes
  • irritability
• ABI social effects:

  • impaired social skills
  • can't understand them
  • socially inappropriate behaviors
  • isolation
  • impulsivity
• hindbrain: cerebellum, medulla oblongata, pons
• mid brain: controls voluntary movement, sensory input, and motor output
• forebrain: cerebrum, thalamus, hypothalamus,
• hypothalamus: regulates body temperature, hunger, thirst, sleep/wake cycle, emotions, and hormones
• thalamus: relays information from senses to cortex
• cerebrum: largest part of the brain, divided into two hemispheres (left and right)
• pons: connects the cerebellum to the medulla
• medulla: the part of the brain that controls the heart rate and breathing