Vocab I
This is the hormone we saw used in Awakenings. It is responsible for moving, learning, and memory.
Dopamine
Speech Production
Broca's Area
Movement and balance
Cerebellum
Sensory Input ( Touch, Taste, and Smell)
Parietal Lobe
What would occur if you damaged your hippocampus?
Would not be able to form memories.
Short term or long term memory could be damaged.
50 first dates.
This concept is known as the brain's ability to change
Plasticity
Understanding Speech
Wernike's Area
Sleep
Pons
Hearing
Temporal Lobe
Under what circumstances is the surgical procedure done for cutting the corpus callosum done?
Seizures
( Girl with Half Brain Video)
Large fibers that connect the two hemispheres of the brain.
Corpus Callosum
Emotion, Aggression, and Fear happens here....
Amygdala
Hypothalamus
Vision
Occipital Lobe
What is the main function of the Myelin Sheath?.
If deteriorating what disease do you get?
To insulate the neurons
Multiple Sclerosis
Calms the body and conserves energy
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Responsible for breathing, heart rate, and digestion.
Medulla
Hippocampus
Speaking, Planning, and judgement making
Frontal Lobe
What gland is known as the master gland?
Pituitary
Transmits messages to the cerebellum and the medulla.
Thalamus
Survival functions conducted here
Brain Stem
Nerve network running through brain stem and thalamus
Reticular Formation
Top of brain stem that transmits messages to the cerebellum and medulla.
Thalamus
What happens if you damage your frontal lobe in a car accident?
Brain Damage ( Problems planning, solving problems, judgement making...)