The Brain

3. Relays and regulates the signals that give you the sensation of pain from anywhere in your body below your neck.
6. A key part of the brain's system for arousal, wakefulness and attention.
7. It monitors and regulates many bodily functions through the hormones that it produces, including growth and sexual/reproductive development and function.
8. Most commonly associated with processing auditory information and with the encoding of memory.
10. Responsible for regulating most of the body's automatic functions that are essential for life including breathings, heartbeat, blood pressure and swallowing.
11. Helps control vital processes and is a key conduit for nerve signals to and from your body.
14. Associated with vision, hearing, motor control, sleep/wake, arousal (alertness), and temperature regulation, acting as a sort or relay station for auditory and visual information.
15. Controls balance for walking and standing, and other complex motor functions.
16. Ensures both sides of the brain can communicate and send signals to each other.
17. Separates the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe, and more specifically separates the primary motor cortex anteriorly from the primary somatosensory cortex posteriorly.
19. This region perceives various somatic sensations from the body, including touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.

1. Its main function is to keep your body in a stable state called homeostasis; directly influences your autonomic nervous system by managing hormones.
2. Important for voluntary movement, expressive language and managing higher level executive functions.
4. Allows us to coordinate our movements in response to the objects in our environment through the use of visual pathways - allowing us to process what and where things are.
5. Plays a major role in learning and memory.
7. Plays a central role in cognitive functions, thereby influencing attention, impulse inhibition, prospective memory and cognitive flexibility
9. Responsible for controlling voluntary motor movement on the body's contralateral side.
12. At the posterior end of the cortex, is the main target for visual information.
13. Involves sound localization, frequency, determination, and integration of auditory with non-auditory systems
18. All information from your body's senses (expect smell) must be processed through here before being sent to your brain's cerebral cortex for interpretation