The Human Brain

The brain has three main parts, the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem. The brain is divided into regions that control specific functions.

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 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