The Brain

The Brain

1. Most important organ in the body

   • Weighs 3 Lbs
   • 150 Billion Neurons
   • ¿¿How it works healthy??
     • Neurons
       • 1 message is sent
         • Dendrites are receptors (Mail boxes)
           • When recieved message , sends it to...
             • Soma
               • Uses the electricity to read message , and then sends it to..
                 • Axon (Telephone line) takes it to..
                   • Synapse (place for message to travel between neurons)
                     • Neurotransmitter (Key to receptor)
                       • Delivers the message to next neuron until needed
       • Make their own electrcity and send eachother messages
   • Functions
     • Think, move, feel, hear, taste, smell
     • Analyze information and storage
     • Learn and process info

2. If Damaged??

   • Large impact on our - intelligence - being sucessfull - Happyness
   • ALCOHOL
     • Its our choice
       • If you don´t drink = You don´t drain your brain!!!
     • Brain Damage
       • Affects more to people under age 21
         • Still is developing and growing
     • How Brain works with Alcohol???
       • Alcohol Becomes "Neurotransmitter wanna-be"
         • Like a computer Hacker
           • It damages the Dendrites ( Mail boxes)
     • Dr Susan F. Tappert University of California
       • Study of different drugs affecting Brain
         • Teen age people get MRI while doing memory activities
           • Healthy ones = remeber
           • Drunk Brain Teen people does not remember as well
       • Says " Give yourself the best shot, by protecting your brain"
     • Dr Aaron White Duke University
       • Works with teen age RATS!!
         • Experiments with healthy one to survive and one drink one
           • Result = Healthy ones has much more chances of surviving than the drunk one.
       • Dreams and Possibilities in life, come down to activity in the BRAIN
         • people should know facts and risks

3. Areas

   • Brain Stream
     • Breathing, Heart rate, eating, sleep..
   • Cerebellum
   • Limbic System
   • Amigdala & Hippocampus
   • Diencephalon &Hypotalamus
   • Cerebral Cortex
     • Its the part that separates us form other animlas
     • 2/3 of our Brain
     • It´s where we think, produce language, hear, see, Know stuff, understand

4. Conclusion

   • Appreciate it = you only have 1
   • Using Alcohol and Drugs
     • Will damage your Brain in ways like ...
       • getting a job
       • sports
       • learning
       • How happy and succesful you will grow