Lobes of the Brain
This lobe is responsible for decision making, personality, and executive/cognitive control as well as motor control.
What is Frontal Lobe?
This area is responsible for controlling essential body functions such as; breathing rate/depth, heart rate, blood pressure
What is the Medulla?
Largest ventricle
What is the lateral ventricle
This "brain matter" is made up of neuron cell bodies.
What is Gray Matter?
Controls the ability form words with our face and mouth muscles
This lobe is responsible for hearing and auditory processing.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
This area is responsible for motor/muscle coordination and balance.
What is Cerebellum?
Network of capillaries with a knot-like appearance lining ventricles that are responsible for production of cerebrospinal fluid
What is the choroid plexus?
Deep fissure separating separting the temporal lobe from parietal and frontal.
What is the lateral fissure?
Allows for humans to perceive sensations such as touch, pressure temperature.
What is the somatosensory cortex or primary sensory cortex?
This lobe is responsible for visual perception and processing.
What is Occipital Lobe?
This brain area is the "relay system" and sends incoming sensory information to the proper region of the somatosensory area.
What is Thalamus?
This area regulates hunger, thirst, temperature, hormones, etc. Homeostatic control
What is hypothalamus?
Two things that protect and cushion the brain.
What is skull, CSF, and meninges?
Processes and analyzes the sounds a person hears
What is auditory association area?
This lobe is responsible for sensory perception and integration as well as spatial processing.
What is Parietal Lobe?
This brain area is a passage for cerebrospinal fluid to flow between third and fourth ventricles.
What is the cerebral aqueduct?
This structure is important in regulating MANY body functions via hormone release. Major role in endocrine system.
What is Pituitary Gland?
This is a shallow groove in the brain.
What is Sulci?
Interpretation of written and oral language.
What is Wernicke's area?
This lobe is the oftentimes-referred-to-as "5th lobe" and found deep to the temporal lobe
What is the insula?
This area releases melatonin that regulates sleep/wake cycle, circadian rythmn
What is pineal body?
Bridge of axon fibers that form a "bridge" to connect the two hemisphers of brain and allows for communication.
What is corpus callosum?
The raised ridges of the surface of the brain.
What is gyri?
What is prefrontal cortex?