the brain
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The Brain. The Brain and Central Nervous System. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGxho71tScM&feature=related. How do we study the Brain??. Accidents. Phineas Gage Story Personality changed after the accident. What does this tell us? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Phineas Gage Story
Personality changed after the accident.
What does this tell us?
Phineas’s frontal cortex (higher thinking) was severed from the part of the brain in charge of emotions.http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html?pop=yes&pid=1592
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CAT Scan
CAT(3 Words)
3D X-Ray of the brain.
Good for tumor locating, but tells us nothing about function.
MRI More detailed picture of
brain using a magnetic field to knock electrons off axis.
Takes many still pictures and turns images into a movie like production.
Let’s play MRI game: http://www.nobelprize.org/
educational/medicine/mri/game/index.html
Coordinates simple movements with sensory information.
Most important structure in Midbrain is the Reticular Formation: controls arousal and ability to focus our attention.
What makes us human. Largest part of the brain. Made up of the Thalamus,
Limbic System and Cerebral Cortex.
Brain Structures: Forebrain
The Limbic SystemEmotions, our most basic reactions, are generated in the Limbic system along with the many appetites and urges that help us behave in such a way to survive. For instance, the Amygdala, is the place where fear is registered and generated.
Maybe most important structure in the brain.
Controls and regulates
Body temperature Sexual Arousal Hunger Thirst Endocrine Systemhttp://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html?pop=yes&pid=1593
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Made up of densely packed neurons we call “gray matter”
Glial Cells: support brain cells.
Wrinkles are called fissures.
If you lay brain out it would be as big as a large Pizza 2000 pizza.
The Cerebral Cortex is made up of four Lobes.
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Wernick-Decodes speech
Broca-Commands speech
Deals with vision. Contains Visual
Cortex: interprets messages from our eyes into images we can understand.
Patients with severe epilepsy will have a procedure done that removes their corpus callosum.
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The idea that the brain, when damaged, will attempt to find news ways to reroute messages.
Children’s brains are more plastic than adults.