The brain: an Introduction
The brain is one of the most sophisticated and intricate organs of your body. The way everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, you think, you smell, you hear, you see is all processed and presented to your being, in a way you can understand and bring out an appropriate response is simply amazing. The centre of all senses, the soft mass of tissues and nerves that make you understand things if you will, is of 3 main parts. Cerebrum Cerebellum Medulla oblongata The cerebrum is the main part of your brain where signals from different organs of sense such as taste, sight, sound, touch and smell are delivered to. The cerebrum has 4 lobes called Frontal which is your forehead area, Parietal which is behind that, Occipital which is at the back of your head and Temporal which is just above your ears that carry out different functions but all of them contribute to process information and make sense of it to you. The cerebellum is the smaller mass of soft tissue and nerves at the back of you...