The Human Brain System

The Human Brain System

THE CEREBRUM:
Frontal Lobe

• Behavior
• Abstract thought processes
• Problem solving
• Attention
• Creative thought
• Some emotion
• Intellect
• Reflection
• Judgment
• Initiative
• Inhibition
• Coordination of movements
• Generalized and mass movements
• Some eye movements
• Sense of smell
• Muscle movements
• Skilled movements
• Some motor skills
• Physical reaction
• Libido (sexual urges)

Occipital Lobe

• Vision
• Reading

Parietal Lobe

• Sense of touch (tactile senstation)
• Appreciation of form through touch (stereognosis)
• Response to internal stimuli (proprioception)
• Sensory combination and comprehension
• Some language and reading functions
• Some visual functions

Temporal Lobe

• Auditory memories
• Some hearing
• Visual memories
• Some vision pathways
• Other memory
• Music
• Fear
• Some language
• Some speech
• Some behavior amd emotions
• Sense of identity

Right Hemisphere (the representational hemisphere)

• The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body
• Temporal and spatial relationships
• Analyzing nonverbal information
• Communicating emotion

Left Hemisphere (the categorical hemisphere)

• The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body
• Produce and understand language

Corpus Callosum

• Communication between the left and right side of the brain

THE CEREBELLUM

• Balance
• Posture
• Cardiac, respiratory, and vasomotor centers

THE BRAIN STEM

• Motor and sensory pathway to body and face
• Vital centers: cardiac, respiratory, vasomotor

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Hypothalamus

• Moods and motivation
• Sexual maturation
• Temperature regulation
• Hormonal body processes

Optic Chiasm

• Vision and the optic nerve

Pituitary Gland

• Hormonal body processes
• Physical maturation
• Growth (height and form)
• Sexual maturation
• Sexual functioning

Spinal Cord

• Conduit and source of sensation and movement

Pineal Body

• Unknown

Ventricles and Cerebral Aqueduct

• Contains the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord

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