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Title: Parts of the Human Brain
Description: Brief notes covering the parts of the brain and each of their functions
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Plasticity - The brain’s ability to make new connections (the younger the brain, the more
plasticity)
Evolution of the Brain:
● “Lucy” - Three million years ago - brain weighs about 500 grams - 1/3rd the size of our
modern day brains - ‘ape like’
● Homo-erectus - 1
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Frontal Lobe - Emotional behaviors, behaviors in social settings, personality, decision
making (in adults) - ​Phineas Gage
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Parietal Lobe - Processes sensory information, attends to and perceives objects
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Occipital Lobe - controls sight and perceives and recognizes visual objects
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Motor Cortex (strip) - located in frontal lobe
Somatosensory Cortex - location in parietal lobe
Spinal Cord - ‘automatic brain’
Brainstem - connects brain and spinal cord
Medulla - Controls vital reflexes, breathing, heart rate, circulation
Pons - sleep and arousal
Hippocampus - memory and learning
Reticular Formation - (RAS) sleep and arousal through Brainstem
Hypothalamus - regulates basic needs (hunger, thirst, sexual behavior, temperature
control
Thalamus - “relay center”
Amygdala - emotion, aggression, fear
Cerebellum - balance, coordination, movement
Cerebrum - sensing, thinking, learning, emotion, consciousness, voluntary actions

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Title: Parts of the Human Brain
Description: Brief notes covering the parts of the brain and each of their functions
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