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Brain
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- 1FRONTAL LOBEplanning, reasoning, problem solving, morality, personality, social skills
- 2PARIETAL LOBEsensory, coordinates spacial relations, perception—helps make sense of the world around us
- 3OCCIPITAL LOBEvision & integrating visual information (color, shape, and distance)
- 4CEREBELLUMbalance, muscular coordination
- 5TEMPORAL LOBEunderstanding, language, hearing, speech, memory, learning
- 6BRAIN STEMregulates heartbeats, respiration, body temperature
- 7HYPOTHALAMUShunger, thirst
- 8AMYGDALAresponsible for emotions, survival instincts, memory
- 9HIPPOCAMPUSregulates emotions, associated with long-term memory
- 10MEDULLAregulates breathing, heart & blood vessel function, digestion, sneezing, swallowing, center for respiration & circulation
- 11THALAMUSconsciousness, sleep, sensory interpretation
- 12CORPUS CALLOSUMbands cerebral cortex together from one side to the other
- 13BROCA'S AREAcontrols speech muscles via the motor cortex
- 14WERNICKE'S AREAinterprets auditory information
- 15PITUITARY GLANDproduces critical hormones
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