Powers-of-the-Mind-Q1-PerDev_(1)_(1).pdf

personal development

1. Powers of the Minds

2. The human brain
is the center of the nervous system.
It centralized the control of all organ systems.
As early as 1664 a British doctor Thomas Willis, concluded
that the brain is responsible for mental functioning. In
extensive research on the brain by Dr. Jay Giedd, he found
out that the human brain has a natural tendency to prune
itself by slashing brain cells and strengthening connections
in the puberty stage the brain jumps into a growth spurt and
physical and mental development where radical change in
the brain happens and experiences and brain cells shape
teen’s brain rearranged themselves and neurons connecting
each other are strengthened.

3. The brain has 3 major parts:
1. Cerebrum – is the largest of the three brain sections for about 85 % of the
brain’s weight and has four lobes. It is responsible for most thinking and
learning. Functions for sensing, integrating and action.
Four Lobes of Cerebrum
a. Parietal Lobe - helps people
understand what they see and feel.
b. Frontal Lobe - determines
personality and emotions.
c. Occipital Lobe - function for visual
processes.
d. Temporal Lobe – responsible for
hearing and word recognition.
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2. Cerebellum – this region controls voluntary
movement. It is located just below the rear part of
the cerebrum and right behind the brain stem.
Neurons – are the basic functional units of the
nervous system. They are comprised of a nerve.
- formed through a process called neurogenesis.
Cell body -contains the nucleus that manufactures
molecules that neurons need to survive and function.

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Dendrite - responsible for receiving messages from
other nerve cells, which look like branches at the
end of nerve cells.

6. 3. Brain Stem – connects the spinal cord and the
brain. It controls functions that keep people alive
such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, and
food digestion.
Reticular Activating System – located in the brain stem,
responsible for your brain’s alertness.
The Limbic System - located above the brain stem and
below the cerebrum, is composed of structures that
have different functions such as the generation of
emotion and processing of emotional memories.

7. 4 Parts of the Limbic System
1.Thalamus – involved in many
cognitive activities
2.Hypothalamus – it moderates different
body functions by controlling the
release of some hormones.
3.Hippocampus – it consolidates
learning and converts information to
the long-term storage regions.
4.Amygdala – takes part in emotions and
regulates your interactions with your
environment

8. LATERALIZATION OF THE BRAIN/DOMINANT SIDE
Joseph Bogen & Roger Wolcott Sperry
certain cognitive processes are dominant in one hemisphere that in the
other, each hemisphere stores information in different ways or separately
functions differently from the other.