THE BRAIN

Your brain is an essential organ that controls many body functions. Your brain receives and interprets all the sensory information you encounter, like sights, sounds, smells and tastes. Your brain has many complex parts that work together to help you function. 

All of your emotions, sensations, aspirations and everything that makes you uniquely individual come from your brain. This complex organ has many functions. It receives, processes and interprets information. Your brain also stores memories and controls your movements.

Your brain receives information from your five senses: sight, smell, sound, touch and taste. Your brain also receives inputs including touch, vibration, pain and temperature from the rest of your body as well as autonomic (involuntary) inputs from your organs. It interprets this information so you can understand and associate meaning with what goes on around you. 

• Thoughts and decisions
• Memories and emotions
• Movements (motor function), balance and coordination.
• Perception of various sensations including pain.
• Automatic behavior such as breathing, heart rate, sleep and temperature control.
• Regulation of organ function.
• Fight or flight response (stress response).

Although most brain cells reside on the surface of your brain (called gray matter) and the cabling (white matter) is deep and connects various parts of your brain, there are some nuclei (collection of brain cells) that reside deep in your brain. They include:  

Basal ganglia.  Control motor systems and understand habits and emotions.

Thalamus.  Related to sleep, consciousness and alertness.

Hippocampus.  Memory and navigation.

Amygdala.  Memory, decision-making, and emotional responses.

Hypothalamus.  Control body temperature, hunger, fatigue and desire to rest.

(Source:  Cleveland Clinic)

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