The ‘Old’ Brain

Also called reptilian brain

Purely reactive & automatic

Example: Reaction to Pain

Brainstem - ‘Cus Pavlov’s Really

Freaking Mad

Cerebellum

Pons

Reticular

Formation

Medulla

Pons

Regulates walking &

relaxing

The Pons is activated

when you look at a

calm pond

Reticular Formation

Motivation and Alertness

If someone ‘Tickles’ you you

will be alert and motivated to

move

Medulla

Regulates

automatic activity of

Heart & Lungs

Cerebellum

Helps you maintain your balance

Cerebellum (Continued)

Nonverbal learning & memory

time

modulate emotions

discriminate sounds and textures

coordinates w/ pons in voluntary

movement

Cerebellum (Continued)

Can you tickle yourself?

Your skin can’t tell the difference...

Limbic System or Mid-Brain

Limbic as in Limbo

Parts of the Brain

Cut a HATCH in your skull

Hippocampus

Amygdala

Thalamus

Corpus Collosum

Hypothalamus

Hippocampus

Involved in memory

You need a ‘Compass’ to

REMEMBER how to get home

Or - Remember the Hippo

Campus motto!

Amygdala

Regulates Fear Responses

Wig rhymes with myg

Scary Wig!

Thalamus

Relays info from body to diff areas in brain

Picture traffic cops Hal and Amos directing

traffic in your brain

Corpus Callosum

Communicat

es between

the two

hemispheres

Hypothalamus

Regulates many metabolic processes (thirst,

hunger body temp)

Hypo the Llamas

The Lobes

Freud Tore his Pants Off!

Frontal

Temporal

Parietal

Occipital

Occipital Lobe (As in Ocular, Oculus)

Processes visual information

Parietal Lobe

Sensory Information, right on the top of your

head:

Frontal Lobe

Complex thinking - so put a ‘complex thinker’

behind the front door of your head

Temporal Lobe

Auditory processing, just

above your ear

Think Tempo & put a

metronome above your ear

How would you like...

A Model of the brain

you could keep with

you and use on a

test?