Your Brain!Your Brain!

By:Lundon HatcherBy:Lundon Hatcher

Well…What about it?Well…What about it?You have a left and right side of the You have a left and right side of the

brain, what is its relationship?brain, what is its relationship?

How do they communicate and How do they communicate and interact?interact?

What would happen if they no longer What would happen if they no longer could communicate and have a could communicate and have a relationship?relationship?

The RelationshipThe Relationship

The right and left hemispheres of the The right and left hemispheres of the brain and connected by the Corpus brain and connected by the Corpus CallosumCallosum

The corpus callosum is a thick bundle The corpus callosum is a thick bundle of nerve fibers that connects the two of nerve fibers that connects the two hemispheres, without it they could not hemispheres, without it they could not communicatecommunicate

How they communicateHow they communicate The corpus callosum is how the right The corpus callosum is how the right

and left side of the brain send and left side of the brain send messages; however certain messages; however certain messages go to certain sidesmessages go to certain sides

Right hemisphere = controls ?Right hemisphere = controls ?Left hemisphere= controls ?Left hemisphere= controls ?

Right side of body Left side of bodyRight side of body Left side of body

Test your brain communicationTest your brain communicationcolor

color

Cut the communicationCut the communication

Split brain Split brain

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The RelationshipThe RelationshipThe brain has a strange relationship, it The brain has a strange relationship, it

controls opposite sides of the body and controls opposite sides of the body and has different functions; however the has different functions; however the relationship between the two relationship between the two hemispheres is important for our most hemispheres is important for our most simple and most complex tasks. simple and most complex tasks.

The relationship between the brain is The relationship between the brain is also unique in that it can function as a also unique in that it can function as a whole or as two separate hemisphereswhole or as two separate hemispheres

What does this mean?What does this mean?The brain its function and relationship with The brain its function and relationship with

itself and us, is much more than we can itself and us, is much more than we can fathomfathom

The brain has such strong communication The brain has such strong communication that one has troubles when trying to only that one has troubles when trying to only use one side.use one side.

When communication is cut the brain When communication is cut the brain adapts and can still function.adapts and can still function.

I only discussed one part of the brain, I only discussed one part of the brain, imagine the relationships it has with all the imagine the relationships it has with all the other parts and your body other parts and your body

Work CitedWork Cited

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to Life-span Developmentto Life-span Development. 6th ed. . 6th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Print.Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Print.