Midbrain & Hindbrain
This part of the hindbrain controls breathing and heart rate.
What is the medulla?
This small, almond-shaped structure controls fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
This lobe is involved in planning, responsibility, and emotional stability.
What is the frontal lobe?
This area in the left frontal lobe helps you produce speech.
What is Broca’s area?
This imaging technique uses X-rays to see the structure of the living brain.
What is a CT (CAT) scan?
This structure of the brainstem is associated with sleep and produces sleep-related chemicals.
What is the pons?
This limbic structure forms new memories and transfers them to long-term storage.
What is the hippocampus?
This lobe processes touch and includes the somatosensory cortex.
What is the parietal lobe?
Damage to Broca’s area causes this type of aphasia.
What is Broca’s aphasia?
This method uses electrodes on the scalp to record brain activity.
What is an EEG?
This hindbrain structure helps you balance and coordinate smooth movement, like typing.
What is the cerebellum?
This limbic structure controls hunger, thirst, and sexual motivation.
What is the hypothalamus?
This lobe processes hearing and contains Wernicke’s area.
What is the temporal lobe?
Damage to this area in the left temporal lobe causes fluent but meaningless speech.
What is Wernicke’s area?
This magnetic technique produces the most detailed picture of brain structure.
What is an MRI?
This brain structure helps regulate levels of arousal and alertness, keeping you awake and attentive.
What is the reticular formation (reticular activating system)?
This part of the hypothalamus signals that you’re hungry.
What is the lateral hypothalamus?
This lobe, located in the very back of the brain, processes visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This condition results when Wernicke’s area is damaged, causing difficulty understanding language.
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
What do you call the type of MRI that shows real-time brain function by tracking blood flow?
What is an fMRI (functional MRI)?
Damage to the reticular formation (reticular activating system) can cause what?
What is a coma?
This part of the hypothalamus signals that you’re full and should stop eating.
What is the ventromedial hypothalamus?
This wrinkly outer layer of the brain is divided into four lobes and is responsible for higher-level thought.
What is the cerebral cortex?
This structure connects the two hemispheres of the brain and can be severed to treat epilepsy.
What is the corpus callosum?
This scan tracks glucose metabolism to show which parts of the brain are active during tasks.
What is a PET scan?