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✓ The brain has three

major parts:

the cerebrum

the cerebellum

the brain stem

THE

POWER

TO ACT

✓ Brain Stem - connects the spinal cord

and the brain - It controls functions

that keep people alive such

as breathing, heart rate,

blood pressure and food

digestion

THE

POWER

TO ACT

✓ Cerebellum

- controls voluntary movement

Example:

When you want to lift your fork, wave

your hand, brush your hair or wink at

a cutie, you form the thought and then

an area in the cerebellum translates

your will into action. It happens so

quickly.

THE

POWER

TO ACT
• Neurons

- basic functional units of the

nervous system

- comprised of a nerve cell

body, axon and dendrite\

- they power the rapid-fire

process that turns thought into

movement.

THE

POWER

TO ACT

• Thought

- electrical signal from the nerve cell

down the axon to a dendrite, which

looks like branches at the end of nerve

cells

-The signal jumps from the end of

the dendrite on one cell across the

space, called a synapse, to the dendrite

of another cell with the help of

chemicals called neurotransmitters.

That signal continues jumping from

cell to cell until it reaches the muscle

you need to wave, wink or walk.

THE

POWER

TO ACT

• Cerebrum

- largest of the three brain sections


- 85 percent of the brain's weight

- has four lobes

- frontal - personality and emotions

- parietal - understand what they see

and feel

- temporal - hearing and word

recognition abilities

- occipital -Vision functions

Note: They get their names from the

sections of the skull that are next to them

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POWER

TO ACT

critical

age

There is a consensus among

researchers that brain cells

regenerate throughout life, said

Doug Postels, a pediatric

neurosurgeon in New Orleans,

but that new growth happens very

slowly after a certain age.

" The size of the brain doesn't

increase much after 3," Postels

explains.

critical

age
Doctors generally accept that cut

-off

point for two reasons, Postels said

First, in situations where doctors

removed parts of the brains of patients

younger than

3 to correct disorders, the

remaining brain sections developed to

assume the role of the portions those

doctors removed

. But when physicians

performed the same surgery on older

patients, that adaptability function did

not occur.

critical

age

Second, " We know from

experiments that if you deprive

people of intellectual stimulation

and put them in

a dark room, that

it produces permanent changes in

the brain," Postels said

. " That

occurs most dramatically before

age

3
. After that age, it's

impossible to ethically do

study.

"

critical

age

Second, " We know from

experiments that if you deprive

people of intellectual stimulation

and put them in

a dark room, that

it produces permanent changes in

the brain," Postels said

. " That

occurs most dramatically before

age

. After that age, it's

impossible to ethically do

study.

"

BRAIN

DOMINANCE

Which of these apply to you?

___ I am very organized.

___ I remember faces more than names.


___ I think things through before making a

decision.

___ If someone’s mad at me, I can tell even

without the person saying a word.

___ I work best in a quiet space.

___ I daydream a lot.

___ I hate taking risks.

___ I tend to get emotional.

___ I make a to-do-list.

___ I trust my “ gut instinct”

BRAIN

DOMINANCE

MoreYes

Left Brain

More No

Right Brain

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