Outer Parts
This helps manage your body temperature, blood pressure, mood, and sleep.
What is the hypothalamus?
This part contributes to anxiety, fear, aggression, emotions we connect to memories, and learning through rewards and punishment.
What is the amygdala?
This part helps with visual recognition and language.
What is the temporal lobe?
The largest white matter structure in the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
This is in your central nervous system, and forms a layer of your brain.
What is grey matter?
Connects your brain to your spinal cord.
What is the brainstem?
This part works on reasoning and social understanding.
What is the frontal lobe?
Primary processing center for the sense of smell.
What is the olfactory bulb?
The hormones that this part releases affect many parts of the body, especially your: thyroid, adrenal glands, and reproductive system organs.
What is the pituitary gland?
Helps many different areas work cooperatively in the brain.
What is the parietal lobe?
This part is responsible for balance and posture.
What is the cerebellum?
Damage to this area will cause lack of awareness, impaired comprehension, and fluent, empty speech.
What is Wernicke's area?
Some common conditions that can damage or affect this area include: amnesia, dementia, epilepsy, and alzgeimer's disease.
What is the hippocampus?
Found in the deeper tissues of the brain, and contains nerve fibers (axons.)
What is white matter?
This part helps with color processing and spatial processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
Handles sleep-wake cycle and breathing.
What is the pons?
This is the last part of your brain to finish myelination. (a lipid-rich protein later wrapped around the axons of neurons that speeds up nerve impulse transmission.)
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The largest part for the brain and handles conscious thoughts and actions.
What is the cerebrum?
Each side of this controls the opposite side's muscles.
What is the primary motor cortex?
Damage to this area will cause slowed speech, and caused language comprehension to be preserved.
What is the Broca's area?