Regions of the Brain
Four is the average number.
What is the adult brain?
This is not complete until age 20.
What are internal connections?
This has 4 stages that last about 90-110 minutes?
What is sleep?
This is one of the regions of the brain.
What is the Brain Stem?
This outputs to the limbic system.
What is the temporal lobe?
This area has outer cortex of gray matter.
What are the Cerebral Hemispheres?
This forms the basis of learning.
What is the strengthening of connections?
This causes death faster then starvation.
This caps the top of the brain stem?
What is the Hypothalamus?
This is a group of structures in both cerebral hemispheres and diencephalon.
What is the Limbic System?
This is why the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body.
What is Contralateral Motor Control?
This is why teenagers do not have good decision making skills.
What is an active amygdala and underdeveloped frontal lobe?
This regulates your sleep schedule?
What is the Hypothalamus?
This is what your brain stem connects you too.
What is the spinal cord?
This is what the limbic system is primarily responsible for.
What are emotional responses?
This area enables conscious behavior and contains 3 functional areas such as; motor, sensory and association abilities.
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
This region is responsible for decision making and is less developed in teens.
What is the frontal lobe?
This aids with the sleep-wake cycle.
What is the Epithalamus?
This is the most inferior part of the brain stem.
What is Pons?
This survival response is a result of the limbic system.
What is fight or flight?
This region can be severed to reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
This helps activates different parts of the brain and helps it develop.
What is expansion of myelin?
During this impulses are received by some parts of the brain, but not by others.
What is Paradoxical sleep (REM sleep)?
This is the other name of the brain stem.
What is the medulla oblongata?
This is where information goes if the limbic system decides something is useful for survival.
What is the Amygdala and Hippocampus?