Brain Anatomy

Connects upper and lower parts of the brain

• Pons

• Reticular Activating System

A major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain

• Cerebellum

• Spinal Cord

• pons

• cingulate gyrus

carries out and regulates life sustaining functions such as breathing, swallowing, and heart rate

• Thalamus

• Medulla oblongata

• hippocampus

• parietal lobe

The brain's sensory filter

• hippocampus

• reticular activating system

• brain stem

• nerve transmitter

responsible for processing long term memory and emotional responses

• hippocampus

• hypothalamus

• thalamus

• medulla oblongata

Responsible for behaviors such as hunger and thirst

• cingulate gyrus

• amygdala

• hypothalamus

• cerebellum

Controls the involuntary movements (heart rate)

• Medulla oblongata

• spinal cord

• pons

• reticular activating system

Responsible for the response and memory of emotions, especially fear

• corpus callosum

• amygdala

• hippocampus

• medulla oblongata

responsible for relaying information from the sensory receptors to proper areas of the brain where it can be processed

• parietal lobe

• hippocampus

• thalamus

• corpus callosum

Carries out higher mental processes such as thinking, decision making, and planning

• spinal cord

• cerebellum

• temporal lobe

• frontal lobe