ePortfolio

SLIDESMANIA

Jing Zhou
Brain
Book
SLIDESMANIA
 This is Ben the Brain. Ben is made of four main parts: the frontal,
parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes.
SLIDESMANIA
 The frontal lobe helps Ben make important The parietal lobe is where all the sensory
decisions. It controls thinking and judgement. information go. Ben is able to feel thanks to this
lobe.
SLIDESMANIA
 The occipital lobe helps Ben see the world. The temporal lobe allows Ben to hear his
surroundings.
SLIDESMANIA
 hi hello

Ben was born with the two sides of his body Now the left and right sides of Ben are able to
disconnected from each other. The doctors communicate with each other.
connected the two sides with something called the
corpus callosum.
SLIDESMANIA
 👟👟

As Ben gets older, the pituitary gland produces Now that Ben is older and bigger, he has to learn
growth hormones and helps Ben grow bigger. how to walk. The motor cortex is in charge of
movements and plans out each step for Ben so he
can take his first steps. The cerebellum helps Ben
SLIDESMANIA

balance.
 �
�
Soon enough, Ben is old enough to go to school. Ben is learning all about colors and shapes.
SLIDESMANIA
 red…

� �
� �
�
Whenever the teacher speaks, Wernicke's area �
Whenever the teacher shows examples of colors and

�
processes the words so Ben can understand. shapes on the board, the visual cortex processes the

�
visual information. Ben repeats after the teacher to
better memorize the terms. Broca’s area allows Ben
SLIDESMANIA

to generate speech.
 Everything that Ben learns will be stored in the Later that day, as Ben is getting ready to go to sleep,
hippocampus, which deals with knowledge and he suddenly realizes that he has a test over colors
memory. and shapes tomorrow.
SLIDESMANIA
 Fear takes over Ben’s mind as he doesn’t have much Ben wastes no time and jumps out of bed to start
time to study. The amygdala is responsible for studying.
emotions like fear.
SLIDESMANIA
 After cramming, Ben goes back to sleep before the Even when Ben is asleep, the medulla makes sure
morning approaches. The pons, a section of the that his heart beats, he breathes, and he digests the
brain stem, is in charge of the sleep cycle. food he ate at dinner.
SLIDESMANIA
 The hypothalamus makes sure the inside of Ben’s
body is functioning properly. This is called
homeostasis.
SLIDESMANIA
A car is honking outside of Ben's bedroom. Ben
stays asleep because cars always honk outside and
the reticular formation has learned to ignore the
stimulus so Ben can stay asleep.
 Ben’s alarm clock goes off in the morning to remind
him that it’s time for school. The thalamus passed
the information to the auditory cortex, where the
ringing will be processed.
SLIDESMANIA
Ben’s still tired from the late-night study session.
He feels for the snooze button, the sensory
information from his fingertips get processed in the
sensory cortex.
 Ben hits the snooze button and goes back a for a
couple more minutes of sleep.
SLIDESMANIA
 Ben hits the
Hmm…
snoozesomething
button andfeels
goesoff.
back a for a
couple
OH more
NO. Ben
minutes
overslept!
of sleep.

It is now 8pm and Ben missed school (and the test).

SLIDESMANIA
SLIDESMANIA.C

Homemade Neuron (pt. 1)

Dendrites : receive
action potential
from other neurons
Axon : transports action potential
Soma : also known as
away from the cell body to
the cell body; houses
terminal branches in order for the
the nucleus of the action potential to be passes to
neuron
another neuron, muscle, etc.

Myelin sheath : fatty

layer that insulates the
axon and speeds up the
process of impulse
transportation Terminal
branches : sends
chemical impulses
Glial cells : [Schwann cells (PNS) to other neurons
and oligodendrocyte (CNS) depicted]
SLIDESMANIA

provide structural support for the

neuron
Terminal buttons :
bulbs that releases
neurotransmitters
 Homemade Neuron (pt. 2)

Neurotransmitters : chemical messengers

that carry the electrical impulse from one
Synaptic vesicle : stores and releases neuron to another
neurotransmitters

Receptor sites : binding sites for

neurotransmitters
SLIDESMANIA
SLIDESMANIA.C

Neuron Firing Lab

Click Here!
SLIDESMANIA
 Brain Function Chart

Click Here!
SLIDESMANIA
SLIDESMANIA.C

Nervous System/Endocrine System Chart

Click Here!
SLIDESMANIA