Parts of the Brain
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- Prefrontal Cortex
- Responsible for personality
- Motor Cortex
- Voluntary movement
- Sensory Cortex
- Sense of feeling
- Broca's Area
- Vocabulary & Identification
- Wernicke's Area
- Grammar
- Temporal Lobe
- Hearing
- Occipital Lobe
- Sight
- Cerebellum
- Coordination
- Brainstem
- Vitals, like heartbeat
- Spinal cord
- Walking
- Hippocampus
- Memory
- Amygdala
- Fear, anxiety
- Thalamus
- Sensory relay station
- Hypothalamus
- Regulates survival instincts
- Corpus callosum
- Conjoins both sides of the brain
- Pituitary gland
- Regulate hormones
- Insula
- Risky/unhealthy behaviors
- Basal ganglia
- Balance, coordination
- Olfactory bulbs
- Smell/taste
- Pineal gland
- Regulates sleep
- Midbrain
- Reward/happiness