The Brain

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The Brain

• By Mary Kate

science.nationalgeographic.com/.../brain.html
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Frontal Lobe

• The frontal lobes are considered our emotional
  control center and home to our personality. The
  frontal lobes are involved in motor function,
  problem solving, memory, language, judgement,
  impulse control, and social behavior.

http//www.neuroskills.com/tbi/bfrontal.shtml
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Occipital Lobe

• The occipital lobes are the center of our visual
  perception system. They are located in the back
  of your head, towards the base of your head.

http//www.neuroskills.com/tbi/boccipit.shtml
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Parietal Lobe

• The parietal lobes can be divided into two
  functional regions. One involves sensation and
  perception. The other is concerned with sensory
  input. The first function integrates sensory
  information to form a single function that
  constructs perception. The second is a spatial
  system coordinate to represent the world around
  us.

http//www.neuroskills.com/tbi/bparieta.shtml
http//serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/images/huma
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Temporal Lobe

• Language in the brain is processed in the
  temporal lobes. These are on the sides of your
  brain, next to you temples. Different areas in
  the temporal lobe deal with different aspects of
  language.

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Neuron
http//www.wadsworth.org/images/neuronMDF.jpg
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Axon

• A long fiber of a nerve cell (a neuron) that acts
  somewhat like a fiber-optic cable carrying
  outgoing (efferent) messages.
• The neuron sends electrical impulses from its
  cell body through the axon to target cells. Each
  nerve cell has one axon. An axon can be over 20
  cm (a foot) in length, which for the human body
  is remarkably long.

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Dendrite

• Dendrite development is an important and unsolved
  problem in neuroscience. The nervous system is
  composed of a vast number of neurons. Neurons
  have specialized projections called dendrites

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Cell Body

• The largest part of a cell, the cell body holds
  all of the general parts of a cell as well as the
  nucleus, which is the control center. The nucleus
  contains the cell's genetic material. The cell
  body also contains many other unique structures
  responsible for making energy and getting rid of
  cellular wastes the enlarged portion of a neuron.

research.cs.tamu.edu/bnl/galleryRecon.html
http//www.biochem.northwestern.edu/holmgren/Gloss
ary/Definitions/Def-C/cell_body.html
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Synapse

• Neurons have specialized projections called
  dendrites and axons. Dendrites bring information
  to the cell body and axons take information away
  from the cell body. Information from one neuron
  flows to another neuron across a synapse. The
  synapse contains a small gap separating neurons.

www.georgiapainphysicians.com/l2_edu_pharma_m...
http//faculty.washington.edu/chudler/synapse.html

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Limbic System
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Thalamus

• Thalamus , mass of nerve cells centrally located
  in the brain just below the cerebrum and
  resembling a large egg in size and shape. The
  thalamus is a routing station for all incoming
  sensory impulses except those of smell,
  transmitting them to higher (cerebral) nerve
  centers.

http//www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-thalamus.html
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Hypothalamus

• The tiny hypothalamus serves as the Health
  Maintenance Organization of the body, regulating
  its homeostasis, or stable state of equilibrium.
  The hypothalamus also generates behaviors
  involved in eating, drinking, general arousal,
  rage, aggression, embarrassment, escape from
  danger, pleasure and copulation. It does an
  amazing number of housekeeping chores for such a
  small piece of tissue.

www.vivo.colostate.edu/.../hypopit/anatomy.html
http//www.geocities.com/hhugs2001/roleofhyp.htm
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Pituitary

• The pituitary is a small, pea-sized gland located
  at the base of the brain that functions as "The
  Master Gland." From its lofty position above the
  rest of the body. It sends messages to lots of
  areas.

http//www.pituitary.org/faq/
neurosurgery.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id205
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Amygdola

• There is a complicated series of events in the
  nervous system that leads to the physical
  sensations and behaviors of fear. The amygdala is
  both large and just beneath the surface.

www.wired.com/.../magazine/16-05/gs_07yourbrain
http//www.scholarpedia.org/article/Amygdala
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