1 / 10

How the Brain Works

How the Brain Works. Overview. Ways of Studying the Brain How is the Brain Organized?. Studying the Brain. Autopsy EEG and evoked potentials Brain Imaging fMRI PET. Hindbrain. Pons : connects spinal cord and brain Medulla : controls vital functions

teva
Download Presentation

How the Brain Works

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. How the Brain Works

  2. Overview • Ways of Studying the Brain • How is the Brain Organized?

  3. Studying the Brain • Autopsy • EEG and evoked potentials • Brain Imaging • fMRI • PET

  4. Hindbrain • Pons: connects spinal cord and brain • Medulla: controls vital functions • Cerebellum: plans and monitors movement

  5. The Cerebrum • Four lobes • Limbic system • Cortex is outer surface

  6. The Limbic System • Thalamus: organizes sensory information • Hypothalamus: regulates body states • Hippocampus: forms memories • Amygdala: controls emotions

  7. The Four Lobes • Occipital: vision • Temporal: hearing, language • Frontal: personality, thinking, motor control • Parietal: touch, temperature, pain

  8. Cerebral Cortex • Highly organized • motor cortex: strip of frontal lobes that generates commands for movement • somatosensory cortex: strip of parietal lobes that processes touch information

  9. The Two Hemispheres • Similar, but not identical in structure or function • Most nerve fibers cross to the other side of the brain • Right hemisphere controls left side of body, and vice versa

  10. Left Brain-Right Brain • Left Hemisphere specialized for language, logic, math • Right Hemisphere specialized for spatial ability, music, art • True for almost all right-handers and many left-handers.

More Related