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Cerebral Cortex
- center for higher thinking, planning, and decisionmaking
- personality (what makes you human)
- recieves and processes info
- if convolutions were stretched out, it would be about 6 feet
- BRAIN(A)
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Thalamus
- sensory in-motor out interneurons
- BRAIN(B)
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Cerebellum
- "little brain"
- balance, coordination, autopilot
- BRAIN(C)
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Brain stem
- controls the functions that keep us alive
- BRAIN(E)
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Medulla
- holds everything together
- controls blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing
- BRAIN(F)
- BRAIN(N)
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Pons
- facil expressions and sleep patterns
- BRAIN(G)
- BRAIN(M)
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Amygdala
- linked to emotion--especially fear and rage
- BRAIN(H)
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Hypothalamus
- controlls all drives: sex, hunger, sleep, rage, endocrine system, biorythms, body temp
- BRAIN(J)
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Corpus Callossum
- the gap that allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain
- BRAIN(K)
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Reticular Formation
- regulates alertness
- if this is damaged, you're in a coma
- BRAIN(L)
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