Brain Model Parts (Damages)

Brainstem

Could cause issues to sleeping, waking, breathing, dreaming, etc. Anything that the medulla, pons, or RAS are responsible for could be impacted by damage to the brain stem.

Hypothalamus

Could cause the body to starve itself, die by thirst, and keep the individual from reproducing.

Motor Cortex

Muscle atrophy, weakness, fasciculation, fabrillation, hypotonia, hyperplexia.

Parietal Lobe

Right - left confusion, difficulty with writing, difficulty with mathematics, disorders of language, inability to perceive objects normally.

Broca's Area

We would be unable to produce speech. We would be unable to communicate through speech.

Thalamus

We would have problems with or lose our sense of sight, taste, touch and hearing. The only one not affected would be smell because it bypasses the Thalamus.

Reticular Formation

Without (or when damaged) we could not be alert or perhaps even conscious.

Amygdala

Would keep the body from processing emotional sensory information. Would also inhibit decision making.

Hippocampus

You would be unable to recognize certain short-term memories. Connections made between senses would be unable to be retrieved.

Cerebellum

Damage would cause one to become exceedingly clumsy and uncoordinated.

Wernicke's Area

Damage would inhibit our ability to comprehend language - we would be unable to know what someone is saying.

Corpus Callosum

Disconnection between the brain's hemisphere. Left visual field - dyslexia, left ear suppression, inability to identify objects.

Temporal Lobe

Disturbance of auditory sensation and perception, impaired organization and categorization of verbal material, disturbance of selective attention of auditory and visual input.

Cerebral Cortex

Location of damage within the lobes defines the kind of symptoms that would be seen with damage.

Occipital Lobe

Loss of visual capacity, inability to identify colors, hallucinations, severe vision loss, or blindness.

Medulla

Severing the nervous pathways to the medulla would stop respiration, and lead to death (hanging).

Frontal Lobe

Sudden, dramatic change in a person's personality, irritability, impulsiveness, and emotion instability.

Somatosensory Cortex

The sense of temperature and touch would be affected - you may lose feeling or become more/less sensitive to heat and touch.