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Item: Brain -> Category: Health -> Author: PF -> Revision: 14/10/2008
Brain anatomy

 

Parts of Brain

 

It is divided into two hemispheres asymmetrical, right and left, united by a corpus callosum. The outside of each of the hemispheres is the cerebral cortex or gray. This is a layer of a few millimeters thick composed of neurons.

 

On the surface of the crust there cisuras or grooves that dividing it into different areas. In each hemisphere distinguish the following areas:

 

·  Frontal Lobe: is responsible for the articulation movements for the production of language and is also related to emotions and personality.

 

·  Parietal lobe: receive information from the senses, it processed sensations like the cold or softness.

 

·  Temporal lobe: especially concerns the hearing and memory.

 

·  Occipital Lobe: in the houses mostly everything related to the hearing.

 

Beneath the cerebral cortex are also the four ventricles: one in each hemisphere and two between them. and two between them. For them the cerebrospinal fluid circulates.


Contents of the document

1.-Introduction
2.- Nervous system
3.- Meninges
4.- Brain
-> Parts of the brain
6.- Hemisferios right
7.- The left hemisphere



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