10 Things You Didn't Know About Your Brain

1.) There are 5 main parts.
    *Frontal Lobe
    *Parietal Lobe
    *Occipital Lobe
    *Temporal Lobe
    *Brainstem

2.)Language is mainly in 2 parts of the brain
    *Broca
    *Wernicke
3.)The Frontal Lobe controls:
    *realizing future consequences resulting from present actions
    *choosing between good/bad, better/best
    *telling the differences/similarities between things/events
4.)The Parietal Lobe controls:
    *knowledge of numbers and their relations
    *processes senses from various parts of your body
    *manipulation of objects
    *reading, writing, solving mathematical problems
5.)The Occipital Lobe:
    *primary visual cortex
    *dreams
6.)The Temporal Lobe controls:
    *hearing
    *speech, comprehension, verbal memory, other language functions
7.)The modern human brain has been shrinking for the past 28,000 yrs
8.)The Brainstem controls:
    *cardiovascular system
    *respiratory system 
    *pain sensitivity 
    *alertness, awareness, consciousness
9.)The brain is protected by:
    *skull
    *suspended in cerebrospinal fluid
    *isolated from bloodstream by the blood-brain barrier
10.)The brain consumes 20% of energy used by human body

~Zabcia