How does the brain direct behavior?

How does the brain direct behavior? da Lauren Joseph

1. Emotion

2. Mental Health

3. Amygdala associated with fear, anxiety, and aggression

4. Ventral Tegmental Area controls dopamine release

5. Prefrontal Cortex involved in regulating emotion

6. Survival Behavior

7. Brainstem promotes movement and arousal

8. Thalamus regulates sensory integration

9. Basal Ganglia regulates coordinated movement

10. Cerebellum controls timed movements

11. Pons controls sleep, attention, and arousal

12. Medulla controls respiration

13. Compose the hindbrain

14. Involved in feelings of love

15. Parts of the forebrain (telencephalon)

16. Substantia nigra is part of the basal ganglia and produces dopamine necessary for movement

17. Midbrain associated with vision, hearing, motor control, and alertness

18. Frontal lobe associated with cognitive functioning, problem solving, and language

19. Parietal lobe processes sensory information

20. Occipital lobe is responsible for vision

21. Parts of the reward system- regulates desire, associative learning, and feelings of pleasure

22. Last part of the brain to develop evolutionarily and in modern children as they age (slow development)

23. Raphe nucleus releases serotonin to enhance effects of dopamine when expecting a reward

24. Increased amygdala activity in response to stress can contribute to the development of mental illness

25. Gene regulation in prefrontal cortex is decreased when socially isolated

26. Some psychiatric disorders associated with decreased gray matter in the braun

27. Decreased hippocampus volume associated with depression

28. Learning and Memory

29. Social Behavior

30. Sexual Behavior

31. Hippocampus involved in learning, memory, and motivation

32. Neocortex size positively correlated with average social group size

33. Fusiform Gyrus responsible for recognizing faces

34. Neocortex involved in memory and associations

35. Prefrontal cortex controls personality and social behavior

36. Hypothalamus regulates drive

37. Hypothalamus regulates motivation

38. Amygdala associated with memory

39. Ventral Tegmental Area regulates feelings of reward and is activated in orgasm

40. Parts of the forebrain (diencephalon)

41. Caudate nucleus involved in storing and processing of memories

42. Temporal lobe associated with developing sensory memories

43. Nucleus accumbrens involved in sexual motivation

44. Parts of the limbic system-regulates emotion. memory, and arousal

45. medial preoptic area (part of the hypoothalamus) controls proceptive behavior and copulation

46. Prefrontal cortex less active in sex to limit reason and logic

47. Social behavior was promoted by bipedalism and bipedalism promoted tool use which fosters social cooperation

48. Amygdala activated during periods of social stress

49. Concepts: