Your Amazing Brain:

1. Your Amazing Brain: The Inside Tour

2. Did You Know…? • Your brain contains 100 billion neurons and 60 trillion synapses (cortex)

3. Did You Know…? • Your brain contains 100 billion neurons and 60 trillion synapses (cortex) • The average adult brain weighs about 1.4 kg (3 lbs)

4. Did You Know…? • Your brain contains 100 billion neurons and 60 trillion synapses (cortex) • The average adult brain weighs about 1.4 kg (3 lbs) • Your brain makes up about 2% of body weight yet takes 20% of the body’s blood supply

5. Did You Know…? • Your brain contains 100 billion neurons and 60 trillion synapses (cortex) • The average adult brain weighs about 1.4 kg (3 lbs) • Your brain makes up about 2% of body weight yet takes 20% of the body’s blood supply • Brain does not fully mature until age 25-30 years

6. The Key Players: Frontal Lobe: reasoning, judgment, higher order thinking (NOT fully developed until 25-30 yrs) Temporal Lobe: hearing, speech Parietal Lobe: pain, pressure, touch, speech Occipital Lobe: vision

7. The Major Parts: thalamus meninges (3 layers) corpus collosum skull cerebrum hypothalamus pons pituitary gland cerebellum medulla oblongata spinal cord

8. What the Parts Do:

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15. The Inside View:

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20. The View from Below: Optic chiasma

21. The Brain’s Blood Supply:

22. When Things Go Wrong:

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34. The End!