The Brain
The Brain
The brain is the body’s control centre – it is the boss of your
body! It keeps all of the different parts of the body working
smoothly and is responsible for all of your memories,
thoughts and feelings. Your brain is more powerful and
more clever than any computer ever made and it contains
about 100 billion neurons in total! It is constantly dealing
with hundreds of messages from the world around you. It
gets the messages from your senses and these messages
travel from nerve cells all over the body, along nerve fibres
and to the nerve cells in your brain.
Your brain is lots of different parts
that all work together including:
The Cerebrum
This is the biggest part of your brain – in fact it makes up 85% of your
brain’s weight! This is the part of your brain that does all of the ‘thinking’.
It has two halves – and the right half of the brain controls the left side of
your body and the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body!
temporal lobe
When you are trying to work
something out you use your
cerebrum. Your memories are
also created and live in your
occipital
cerebrum. This includes the
lobe
short-term memories you create
(such as what you had for
breakfast this morning) and the
long-term memories you create
(such as where you went on
cerebellum
holiday four years ago).
brain stem
14 FUSE
parietal lobe
frontal lobe