hindbrain
Control automatic behaviors and survival responses, lizard brain
What is the HINDBRAIN?
This system regulates alertness and consciousness
What is the RETICULAR FORMATION?
This interconnected emotional network includes the amygdala, hippocampus, and hypothalamus.
What is the LIMBIC SYSTEM?
This lobe is responsible for vision.
What is the OCCIPITAL LOBE?
This railroad worker survived an iron rod passing through his frontal lobe, dramatically changing personality.
Who is PHINEAS GAGE?
This structure controls heart rate, breathing, and vital reflexes like swallowing and coughing.
What is the MEDULLA?
Helps us orient eyes and body movement, helps control sleep and arousal
What is MIDBRAIN?
Center for processing emotions
What is the AMYDGALA?
This lobe processes touch, pain, temperature, and body position.
What is the PARIETAL LOBE?
Damage in the left frontal lobe results in slow speech but great thoughts.
What is BROCA’S AREA?
Latin for bridge, relays signals between the brainstem and higher brain regions.
What is the PONS?
This midbrain structure secretes neurotransmitter dopamine (motivation and pleasure)
What is the SUBSTANTIA NIGRA?
This structure forms new explicit memories.
What is the HIPPOCAMPUS?
This lobe is responsible for hearing and language comprehension.
What is the TEMPORAL LOBE?
Damage in the left temporal lobe results in fluent but nonsensical speech.
What is WERNICKE’S AREA?
Controls muscular coordination, sensation and body balance, procedural memory
What is the CEREBELLUM?
Excess dopamine activity in certain pathways is associated with this psychological disorder.
What is SCHIZOPHRENIA?
All sensory information except smell passes through this “switchboard” before reaching the cortex.
What is the THALAMUS?
Higher thinking, speech production, reasoning, and personality regulation are largely controlled by this lobe.
What is the FRONTAL LOBE?
Two strips at the back of the frontal lobe responsible for planning, controlling, and executing voluntary skeletal muscle movements.
What is the MOTOR CORTEX?
The part of the rhombencephalon that is highly sensitive to alcohol
What is the CEREBELLUM?
Damage to this structure or the thalamus may result in coma.
What is the RETICULAR FORMATION?
This brain region maintains homeostasis and hormone release.
What is the HYPOTHALAMUS?
This thick band of neural fibers connects the two hemispheres of the brain allowing for direct communication.
What is the CORPUS CALLOSUM?
This is the last major brain region to fully develop, fully develops 25-30.
What is the CEREBRAL CORTEX?