Psychology- Biological Bases of the Brain

Controls arousal  (sleepiness and awakefulness)

• Reticular Formation
• Thalamus
• Amygdala
• Medulla

Known as the "Little Brain" and is in charge of balance and coordinating movements

• Thalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Hypothalamus
• Cerebellum

Damage this and you won't form new memories

• Hypothalamus
• Hippocampus
• Amygdala
• Thalamus

Wrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes information

• Forebrain
• Cerebral Cortex
• Corpus Callosum
• Cerebellum

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

• Frontal Lobe
• Parietal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Controls hearing, and language comprehension

• Frontal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Parietal Lobe

Records the waves of electrical activity (studies seizures)

• EEG
• MRI
• CT Scan
• fMRI

Shows brain function by using a radioactive glucose solution (active neurons love glucose)

• MRI
• CT Scan
• PET Scan
• fMRI

The ability of brain tissue to take on new functions, usually occurs after parts of the brain have been damaged

• Neurogenesis
• Brain Plasticity
• Somatic Regeneration
• Stem Cell Lesions

The split-brain procedure involves the cutting of this

• Cerebral Cortex
• Cerebellum
• Corpus Callosum
• Caudate Nucleus