Brain Flashcards
(15 cards)
- Sensory output
- organizing behavior
- speech
- writing
- emotion
- personality
- behavior
- body movement
- concentration
- inappropriate thoughts
Frontal Lobe
- Deals with the ears
- understanding language and being able to understand other languages
Temporal Lobe
- visual information from your eyes.
- Damage: Blindness or partial blindness
Occipital Lobe
- Deals with touch
- Pain
- temperature
- helps with numbers, shapes, and objects
Parietal Lobe
Regulates our appetites and thirst, sex drive, emotions, and body temperature
Hypothalamus
Relays information from your sensory receptors to brain
Thalamus
Connects the hemispheres
Corpus Callosum
Order of importance
Reticular activating system
Controls of body positions and coordination
Cerebrum
Regulates breathing, swallowing, and heart rate
Medulla Oblongata
Serves as a pathway for nerve impulses from your extremities to your brain.
Spinal cord
Controls your sugar in your blood system.
Pancreas
Regulates Metabolism
Thyroid
Master gland
Damage: could be a little person or a big person
Pituitary gland
Produces sperm or ovaries; voice pitch, breast development and hair growth
Gonads
