Saturday, September 25, 2010

How our BRAIN works.

1. the word hemisphere referes to our brain because of the two sides of our brain. htere is the left hemisphere and the right hemishpere, each side with their own responsibilties and duties.
2.the major things that difffer the left side with the right are that the left side of language and process in a logic and sequeltial oreder. and the right side is more as a visual and process intuitive, hollistically and randomly. they both have different job to carry out acticities for your body.
3.corpus collosum is part of the brain that conncets the left and right side cerebral hemispheres which facilitates the comunication.
4. Paul Broca was a very smart french physician. He discovered the Broca area that it is located in the frontal lobe in our brain. After his studies they figured out that it is the part of the brain that makes us speak. He was not only a physician, he was also an anatomist and anthropologist. he made many researched and then named this part of the brain after his last name.
5.Roger sperry was a succesful neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and nobel laureate. He even won a noble medicine prize because of his research about the split brain. he did many research and expiriments before his final answer. he was a very hard working man, he figured about the split brain occurs when the corpus collosum connest to the two cerebral hemispheres.
6. karl Wernicke was an German man that was an physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. he researched on brain damage especially with language and speech. He figured out that the daage for that results came from the Broca area because his discovery this region is called the wernicke area.
7.The occipital lobe is responsible for the vision.
8.the temporal lobe is responsible for hearing and language.
9. the frontal lobe is reponsible for the math calculations
10. the frontal lobe is most responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse control?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Broca
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/articles/sperry/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wernicke
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structure1.html

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