Planning frontal lobe and brain stem

November 19 / 2017

Stage: b) planning

Frontal lobe: - It controls important cognitive skills such as emotional expression, problem solving, sexual behavior, and language amongst others.

- It is responsible for basic motor function (the ability to move our muscles)

- It is largest and most developed in humans than in other organisms

- The right hemisphere of the frontal lobe controls the left part of the body and the left hemisphere controls the right part of the body.

- It is located at the front of the brain

- Damage can cause a change in personality, problems controlling facial expressions, and problems to properly asses risk and danger.

- In charge of intelligence, concentration, self awareness, personality, behavior and emotions

- Affects judgement, planning an problem solving.

- Broca´s area lies in the frontal lobe, if there are injuries to this area, the person might have difficulty in moving the tongue or facial muscles, leading to problems in generating the sounds of speech. 

- It is the last to develop in young adulthood.

-Its orbitofrontal circuit manages emotional impulses such as empathy, benevolence and interpretation of facial expressions amongst others.

https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/frontal-lobe/male

https://www.mayfieldclinic.com/PE-AnatBrain.htm

http://www.brainwaves.com

Brain stem: - It holds the midbrain, pons and medulla.

- It connects the cerebrum and cerebellum to the spinal cord.

- It performs automatic functions such as breathing, heart rate, body temperature, wake and sleep cycles and breathing amongst others.

- It is the most primitive area of the human brain.

- Located at the base of the brain, above the spinal cord and below the cerebrum.

- It consists of white matter that conducts nerve signals within the brain stem, spinal cord and throughout regions of the brain.

- 10 of the brain´s 12 cranial nerves originate from the brain stem.

- Some of the connections it forms between the brain and the spinal cord include; the corticospinal tract for motor signals, the spinothalamic tract for pain, pitch and other signals, and the posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway for senses such as fine touch.

https://www.mayfieldclinic.com/PE-AnatBrain.htm

http://www.brainwaves.com

http://www.innerbody.com/image_nerv01/nerv46.html