Parts of the brain

Question 1

Frontal lobe

Answer 1

-Personality, descision making, concentration, planning and organising
-Damage can cause behaviour change and innapropriate behaviour

Question 2

Parietal lobe

Answer 2

-Processes sensory information allowing us to interact w/ the world around us, touch and locate things
-Damage can lead to problems with recognising environments and faces

Question 3

Occupital lobe

Answer 3

-Controls visual processing areas, allows us to process visual imagery facilitating vision, awareness of colours and shapes
-Damage can lead to problems with reading, identifying colours.

Question 4

Temporal lobe

Answer 4

Processes language, smell and hearing, damage may impair memory of words and sounds.

Question 5

Pons

Answer 5

Above the medulla, controls wakefulness and facial movements, connects upper and lower parts of the brain, relays messages from cortex to cerebellum
-Damage can cause permenent sleep state

Question 6

Medulla

Answer 6

Controls autonomic functions like breathing, heart and blood vessel functions, swallowing, digestion-damage can be fatal as it can cause problems w/ functions essential for life

Question 7

Cerebellum

Answer 7

Located behind the brainstem, 2 hemispheres, carries out actions ordered by the motor cortex-damage can cause imbalance, tremor and imprecise movements.

Question 8

Spinal cord

Answer 8

-Spinal cord: Nervous tissue which extends from the brain and allows messages to be sent from the brain to the body and vice versa. Damage can lead to paralysis

Question 9

Sulcus

Answer 9

-grooves/wrinkles in the brain

Question 10

Fissure

Answer 10

Long narrow crack/deep sulcus

Question 11

Gyrus

Answer 11

A ridge/fold on the brain surface

Question 12

Lobes

Answer 12

Lobe-round, flat projecting part of the brain usually contains 2 or more parts divided by fissures.