Summary: How The Special Needs Brain Works | 9781506327020 | David A Sousa

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• 1 The brain and learning

• The brain's ability to continually reorganize and reconnect its neural pathways because of input from the environment

  Neuroplasticity

• 1.1 Some exterior parts of the brain

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• Part at the front of the brain that contains almost 50% of the volume of the cerebral hemispheres. 

  Frontal lobe

• What does the frontal lobe do?

  - Planning and thinking
  - Rational and executive control of the brain
  - Higher order thinking
  - Problem solving
  - Regulating emotional system
  - self-will/personality

• This part deals with sound, music, face and object recognition and parts of longterm memory. It's also the speech center:

  Temporal lobe

• At the top of the brain, deals with spatial orientation, calculation and certain types of recognition:

  Parietal lobe

• This is a band between the parietal and frontal lobes on the front of the brain. It controls body movement and works with the cerebellum to coordinate motor skills:

  Motor cortex

• The band behind the motor cortex with processes touch signals from various parts of the body:

  Somatosensory cortex

• This part is just behind the brainstem. It coordinates movement and stores the memory of automated movements.

  Cerebellum

• 1.2 Some interior parts of the brain

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• This is the oldest ares of the brain. Vital body functions are controlled here:

  Brainstem

• What system does the brainstem house and what does it?

  Reticular Activating System (RAS). This system is responsible for the brains alertness.