brain

• Risks of brain investigation

  Physical damage and increased problems with brain function EG. difficulties with speech
• What can electrical stimulation help with?

  Help reduce muscle tremors caused by nervous system disorders (EG Parkinson's )
• Three ways you can study the brain

  MRI scans, electrically stimulate brain (push small electrode into tissuw and zap with electricity), study people with brain damage
• Medulla oblongata function?

  Unconscious activities
• Cerebellum function?

  Muscle coordination
• Cerebral cortex function


  Outside wrinkly bit- responsible for consciousness, intelligence, memory and language.
• brain


  The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system
• What is the brain made up of?

  Billions of interconnected neurons
• what is the brain protected by

  skull, meninges (membrane) and cerebral spinal fluid
• cerebral spinal fluid


  A solution that circulates around the brain and spinal cord. Provides nourishment, cushions, and removes wastes.