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Download the 3D Brain app from the App Store. Then get into groups of two.

One partner
should open the 3D brain app and one partner should open this worksheet. Use the app to
answer the questions below:

Amygdala:
1. Explain the main function of the Amygdala

2. Name and describe the three parts of the amygdala


a.

b.

c.

3. In the case study: what Emotion could SM not recognize?

4. What functions are associated with the amygdala?

5. What can happen if the Amygdala is damaged?

Brain Stem:
1. What does the brain stem consist of?

2. What important role does the brain stem play?

3. What were the two patients of the case study afflicted with?

4. What functions are associated with the Brain stem?

5. What can happen if the brain stem is damaged?

6. What substructures can the Brain stem be divided into?

Broca’s Area:
1. What is Broca’s area involved in?

2. What functions are associated with Broca’s area?

3. What disorders are associated with Broca’s area?


4. What can happen if Broca’s area is damaged?

Cerebellum:
1. What does the Cerebellum do?

2. What percentage of brain weight does the Cerebellum take up?

3. What functions are associated with the Cerebellum?

4. What disorders are associated with the Cerebellum?

5. What can happen if the Cerebellum is damaged?

6. What can happen if the Cingulate Gyrus is damaged?

The Corpus Callosum:


1. What is the main function of the Corpus Callosum?

2. What will happen if the Corpus Callosum is severed?

3. What functions are associated with the Corpus Callosum?

4. What disorders are associated with the Corpus Callosum?

Somatosensory Cortex:
1. What is the main function of the Somatosensory Cortex?

2. What is the “Phantom Limb” sensation?

3. What can happen if the Somatosensory Cortex is damaged?

Frontal lobe:
1. What are the Frontal lobes a part of?

2. What functions are associated with the Frontal lobe?

3. What disorders are associated with the Frontal lobe?

4. What can happen if the Frontal lobe is damaged?


Hippocampus:
1. What Does the Hippocampus form?

2. What functions are associated with the Hippocampus?

3. What disorders are associated with the Hippocampus?

4. What can happen if the Hippocampus is damaged?

Hypothalamus:
1. What does the hypothalamus control?

2. What functions are associated with the Hypothalamus?

3. What disorders are associated with the Hypothalamus?

4. What can happen if the Hypothalamus Is damaged?

Occipital lobe:
1. What sense does the occipital lobe help with?

2. What functions are associated with the Occipital lobe?

3. What disorders are associated with the Occipital lobe?

4. What can happen if the Occipital lobe Is damaged?

Parietal Lobe:
1. What is the main function of the parietal lobe?

2. What functions are associated with the Parietal Lobe?

3. What disorders are associated with the Parietal Lobe?

4. What can happen if the Parietal Lobe Is damaged?

The Prefrontal Cortex:


1. What Critical role does the Prefrontal Cortex play?

2. What functions are associated with the Prefrontal Cortex?

3. What cognitive damage is associated with the Prefrontal Cortex?

4. What can happen if the Prefrontal Cortex Is damaged?

The Primary Motor Cortex:


1. What is the main function of the Primary motor cortex?

2. What part controls the legs?

3. What disorders are associated with the Primary Motor Cortex?

4. What can happen if the Primary Motor Cortex Is damaged?

Temporal Lobes:
1. What functions are associated with the Temporal Lobes?

2. What disorders are associated with the Temporal Lobes?

3. What can happen if the Temporal Lobes are damaged?

Thalamus:
1. What is the Thalamus heavily involved in?

2. What functions are associated with the Thalamus?

3. What disorders are associated with the Thalamus?

4. What can happen if the Thalamus Is damaged?

Wernicke's Area:
1. What is Wernicke’s area involved in?

2. Who is Wernicke's Area named after? What did he do?

3. What disorders are associated with the Wernicke's Area?


4. What can happen if the Wernicke's Area is damaged?

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