Cerebrum
Located at the front of the cerebrum.
What is the frontal lobe?
This part of the brain sends incoming sensory information to the appropriate parts of the brain.
What is the Thalamus?
This part of the brain controls movement, coordination and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
The 4 features of the medulla oblongata that keep you alive.
What is breathing, blood pressure, digestion, and heartbeat?
These are the two simplified groups of the brain.
What are the upstairs (cerebrum) and downstairs (limbic and brainstem) brain?
True or False: The left and right hemispheres of a lobe control different parts of the brain
True
Trauma causes the amygdala to become less active, weakening this part of the brain.
What is the hippocampus?
This part of the brain produces melatonin for the bodies sleep cycle.
What is the pineal gland?
This part of the brain helps you sleep, breathe, have balance and facial movements.
What is the pons?
If the downstairs brain takes over, it reduces the influence of this?
What is the upstairs brain?
This controls executive functioning.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Another name for the limbic system.
What is the emotional/feeling brain?
The corpus callosum connects these two things.
What are the right and left brain hemispheres?
This connects the spine to the brainstem.
What is the spinal cord?
This creates the corpus callosum.
What are cranial nerves/nerve fibers?
This causes the prefrontal cortex to become less active.
What is trauma/stress?
This part of the brain is referred to as the smoke detector or alarm system.
What is the amygdala?
Your natural, internal 24-hour clock.
What is the pituitary gland (circadian rhythm)?
This part of the brain assists in seeing, hearing, movement, and eye movement.
What is the mid-brain?
Around this age, the brain fully matures.
What is mid-20s?
The four lobes that make up the cerebrum.
What are the frontal, occipital, temporal, and parietal lobes?
The control center for the body.
What is the hypothalamus?
This part of the brain plays a role in addiction.
What are the basal ganglia?
If this part of the brain is damaged, it can cause death.
What is the medulla oblongata?
These are the chemical rewards that the basal ganglia process (name one).
What are dopamine, endogenous opioids, acetylcholine, and glutamate/GABA?