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All About the Brain: Functions, Injuries, and Protection

Discover the fascinating world of the human brain, its functions, common injuries, and how it is protected. Learn about the different regions of the brain and their roles in thinking, memory, movement, and perception.

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All About the Brain: Functions, Injuries, and Protection

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  1. Module 1:All About the Brain

  2. The Human Brain Weighs about 3 lbs. Has the consistency of hard jello Is the body’s biggest organ Controls many of the things are body does – from breathing, walking, talking, thinking Is protected by your skull but can also be injured by the inside of the skull

  3. The Human Skull The skull is a rounded layer of bone designed to protect the brain from penetrating injuries. The base of the skull is rough, with many bony protuberances. These ridges can result in injury to the brain. Bony ridges

  4. What is brain injury? An injury to the brain that is caused by a blow or jolt to the head or body, or a penetrating injury, that disrupts how the brain functions. It can also be caused by a medical incident that causes injury to the brain – such as a stroke, loss of oxygen to the brain, tumor, etc.

  5. How does injury happen? The brain moving suddenly and forcefully inside the skull

  6. What does each region of the brain do? Frontal Lobe • Thinking • Planning + organizing • Short-term memory • Problem solving • Movement • Personality All the things you need to get up and go!

  7. What does each region of the brain do? Parietal Lobe • Sense of touch, taste and temperature • Differentiation of size and shape • Spatial awareness • Visual perception

  8. What does each region of the brain do? Temporal Lobe • Hearing • Language • Memory • Organizing • Sequencing

  9. What does each region of your brain do? Occipital Lobe • Vision • Visual Processing • Processes images from your eyes and links the information with images stored in memory

  10. Q & A

  11. 200 Day Hill Road, Suite 250 Windsor, CT 06095 Office 860.219.0291 Helpline 800.278.8242 general@biact.org BIACT.org Thank You!

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