| Question | Answer |
| Brain Stem | Controls heart rate, breathing, and other critical body functions |
| Cerebellum | Helps control fine movements and balance
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| Occipital Lobe | This controls your vision |
| Temporal Lobes | This controls your hearing and is responsible for speech
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| Parietal Lobe | This is where your touch and taste sense are controlled along with some memory
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| Frontal Lobe | Controls your feelings, emotions, complex thinking, and imagination
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| Corpus Collosum | A band of fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain |
| Neuron | The cells of the brain that transmit information to and from each other |
| Dendrite | An "arm" that extends from the nucleus of a neuron connecting it to other neurons
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| Synapse | The gap in between axons where neurotransmitters pass from one neuron to the next
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| Pituitary Gland | Controls growth by releasing hormones in the body |
| Hypothalamus | Helps to coordinate many functions in the brain, problems with it lead to depression and other disorders like ADHD. |
| Cerebrum | The most "evolved" part of the brain. It contains the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes. |
| Depression | People with this are sad, sleep a lot, and are difficult to cheer up |
| ADHD | People with this have a hard time concentrating and are often talkative and hyper. |
| Anxiety | People with this are very nervous, their heart races, and they get sweaty palms |
| Alzheimers | A disease that leads to deterioration of the brain typically in old age |
| Parkinsons | People with this have a difficult time controlling their movements and shake a lot. |
| Limbic System | Connects the different lobes of the brain and controls emotion. |
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IVC Lesson 11
