Function

-breathing, heart wate

7 brainstan -circulation

-digestion

Cerebellum

Function

-
motor control/body control
~ cerebellum

motor (eg. remember how to ride bicycles

~

memory

Thalamus

Function
-

relay sensory and motor signals

of alertness
-

regulation consciousness and

 Cerebrum

comprises matter and

gray
-

Function white matter

brain
-largest part of
·

Integration
-
initiate and coordinate movement

and
regulate temperature
Other area: enable speech,
judgment, thinking and reasoning,
problem-solving, emotions & learning
relate to vision,
hearing, touch other
-

sense

Cerebral cortex

(describe the outer

gray matter
covering
of cerebellum), half of brain's weight

righthemispherecovered
the
with gyriand as
cerebralcortex

two hemispheres join at longitudinal fissure thatruns from frontof head to back.

two
hemispheres communicate with one another through C-shapedstructure nerve
-

and

callosum.
pathways calledthe corpus

- R. hemisphere controls left side body

of

side of
- L. hemisphere controls right body

Basal ganglia are foundbelow the corpous collosum

in motor control

-
made up a
of
of neurons

nuclei,
 Frontal
Cerebral has
cortex four lobes
- control emotion

~personalitycharacteristics, decision making

- contains Broca's area, associatedwith production of speech

parts of
smell
~
this lobe involvedin recognition of

Parietal
identify
objects andunderstand
spatial relations.
-

- also involvedi n
interpreting touch andpain,

Occipital lobe: involvedin vision

Temporal lobe:short-term memory, speech, language, hearing, musical rhythm,

some
degree of smell recognition.
(where one’s body is compared with objects around the person).

contains Wernicke's area, associated with understanding of spoken language

Somatosensorycortex: takes in information and integrate

motor cortex:
sending information out
 Graya nd white matter

In
brain, gray matter > outer portion
white matter => inner portion

In spinal cord, white => outer section

section
gray => inner

Gray matter => neuron cell bodies, processing interpreting

and information

White matter => axons

wrapped in
myelin, transmitting information