brain

• Hypothalamus


  Responsible for regulating basic biological needs like hunger, thirst and temperature control
• Reticular formation


  A network of neurons related to sleep, arousal, attention
• Cerebellum


  Control balance
• Spinal cord


  • The cord that sends signal to the rest of the body
  • Involved with simple reflexes
• Cerebral cortex


  Responsible for memory
• Corpus callosum


  Bridges of fibers passing information between the two cerebral hemispheres
• Thalamus


  • Relay centre of the cortex
  • Handles incoming and ongoing signals
• Pituitary glands


  • Also called the master glands
  • Regulates of the endocrine glands
• Pons


  Involves with sleep, and arousal
• Medulla


  Regulates unconscious functions like breathing and blood circulation
• Frontal lobe


  Involves in speaking and planning actions
• Corpus callosum


  Large circular structures connecting to the hemispheres
• Temporal lobe


  Analyzes sounds to make sense speeches
• Hippocampus


  • Transfer information into memory
  • Stores memories like the name of people and objects
• Amygdala


  Two almond shaped neural clusters regulating how emotions can affect memory creating "fight or flight" response to fear
• Cerebral Cortex


  Outer layer of the cerebrum
• Left hemisphere


  • Communicating, language, logic, math
  • Look at differences
• Right hemisphere

  • Spatial awareness and visual imagery, facial recognition
  • Responds to demonstrated instructions
• Cerebrum


  The brain's problem-solving ability
• Contralateral


  • Brain controlling opposite side of the body
  • Right brain controlling left side of the body
• Ipsilateral


  • The brain controlling the same side of the body
  • For example: smell
• Wernicke's Area


  Responsible for comprehension
• Broca's Area


  Responsible for speech production