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Neuroplasticity Brains ability to rewire itself, best when you're younger
Hindbrain Bottom, basic survival (breathing movement)
Midbrain Middle, connection and movement
Forebrain Top, thinking sensing and feeling
medulla heartbeat, breathing
pons sleep, balance, arousal
Reticular formation arousal, wakefulness
cerebellum movement, balance, coordination
Thalamus sensory relay station
Amygdala Emotion
Hippocampus Memory
Frontal lobe front, plans personality and decisions
Parietal Top-middle, touch and pressure
occipital back, vision
Temporal Side, hearing
Motor cortex controls movement
Somstosensory cortex feels touch
Brocas area speech production
wernickes area language comprehension
Left hemisphere right body, language
right hemisphere left body, faces
corpus callosum connects two hemispheres
split brain corpus callosum removed to stop seizures
EEG Brain waves
MEG Magnetic fields
CT scan X-ray slices
PET scan Shoes glucose activity
MRI shows structure
fMRI shows structure and function
REM Dreaming, paralyzed
alpha wave relaxed but awake
delta deep sleep
insomnia trouble falling/staying asleep
narcolepsy sudden sleep attacks (falling asleep randomly)
sleep apnea stop breathing while asleep (snoring)
REM sleep behavior disorder Acts out dreams
REM rebound More REM after deprivation
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