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Location
Function
Whereabouts
Purpose
DAMAGED
100

Composed of right and left hemispheres joined by a vermis

What is the Cerebellum?

100
Controls the heartbeat and breathing
What is Medulla
100
Below the thalamus, above the brain stem
What is Hypothalmus
100

Interprets nonverbal communication

What is the Area Analogous to Wernicke's Area?

100

Damage to this area of the brain disrupts production of language.

What is Broca's Area?

200

Situated between the cerebral cortex and the midbrain.

What is the Diencephalon?

200

Acts as a threat detector and is associated with fear. DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is the Amygdala?

200
Lower half of the brain stem (located right behind the ears)
What is Medulla
200

It plays a role in many important functions; including sleep and waking, alertness, and arousal.

What is the Ascending Reticular Activating System?

200

Damage to this area of the brain disrupts understanding of language.

What is Wernicke's Area?

300

Carries only right superior visual field information

What is the Left Inferior Optic Radiation?

300

Receives sensory signals and sends them to the associated area, regulates arousal, awareness, and activity, and processes motor information from the cerebellum and basal nuclei.

What is the Thalamus?

300

The ventral-most aspect of the midbrain containing descending motor tracts.

What is the Cerebral Peduncle?

300
The most important function is to link the CNS to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland. Its also responsible for metabolic processes and other activities of the autonomic nervous system. It controls hunger, body temperature, attachment, behaviors, and sleep
What is Hypothalamus
300

Damage to this part of the brain will interfere with sensory inputs such as touch, vision, and hearing, as well as motor skills

What is the Thalamus?

400

Located in the frontal lobe anterior to the precentral gyrus DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is the Premotor Cortex?

400
Information highway. Neuropathways govern reflexes and automatic responses to stimuli
What is Spinal Cord
400

In the brainstem; links midbrain and medulla

What is Pons?

400
Controls speech muscles through the motor cortex (forming speech), controls language expression
What is Broca's Area
400

Injury to this part of the brain leads to impairment in left-sided attention and spatial navigation.

What is the Right Parietotemporal Association Area?

500

Located medial to the putamen and lateral to the thalamus

What is the globus pallidus?

500

Allows communication between both hemispheres

What is the Corpus Callosum?

500
Located below the cerebral cortex, and above the hindbrain placing it near the center of the brain.
What is Midbrain
500

Provides conscious awareness of contralateral visual field information.

What is the Primary Visual Cortex?

500

Damage to this part of the brain results in difficulties in forming new memories and affects more recent previous memories

What is the Hippocampus?