Brain Lobes and Functions
The lobe responsible for processing visual information
What is the occipital lobe?
This structure controls basic life functions like heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
This system is responsible for calming the body after a startle response.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This neurotransmitter is most associated with sleep cycles and is affected by jet lag.
What is melatonin?
This hormone is involved in regulating hunger and is controlled by the hypothalamus.
What is ghrelin?
This lobe is involved in processing sounds, including the sounds of vocabulary words during learning.
What is the temporal lobe?
This brain structure plays a key role in forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This part of the nervous system activates during a fight-or-flight response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
A substance that blocks the reuptake of serotonin is involved in this process.
What is reuptake?
This hormone is responsible for stress responses, increasing heart rate, and sweating when scared.
What is adrenaline?
Damage to this lobe may result in irresponsible behavior and difficulty with planning.
What is the frontal lobe?
This structure was severed to treat Arjun's epilepsy.
What is the corpus callosum?
This system consists of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This neurotransmitter is most associated with major depressive disorder.
What is serotonin?
The network of structures involved in emotion, motivation, and memory.
What is the limbic system?
This lobe processes sensory information like touch and spatial orientation.
What is the parietal lobe?
A tumor in this area could cause significant weight gain.
What is the hypothalamus?
The correct sequence of the reflex arc.
What is receptors, sensory neurons, interneurons, motor neurons?
This neurotransmitter helps reduce pain and is produced in response to pain stimuli.
What are endorphins?
This brain structure is damaged if someone cannot detect emotional significance in facial expressions.
What is the amygdala?
Damage to this lobe can cause loss of the ability to understand language.
What is the left temporal lobe?
This brain structure helps regulate emotional responses, particularly fear.
What is the amygdala?
This system is responsible for involuntary functions like digestion and heart rate.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
An increase in this neurotransmitter can cause increased feelings of love.
What is oxytocin?
Damage to this structure can cause an inability to regulate body temperature and hunger
What is the hypothalamus?