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The document discusses the structure and function of the brain, highlighting its three major parts: the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem, each responsible for different functions such as personality, voluntary movements, and vital life processes. It also addresses the impact of drug use on brain function, detailing how substances like inhalants and steroids can damage neurons and impair cognitive abilities. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of protecting the brain from injury and the potential for brain cell regeneration throughout life.

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Perdev 3

The document discusses the structure and function of the brain, highlighting its three major parts: the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem, each responsible for different functions such as personality, voluntary movements, and vital life processes. It also addresses the impact of drug use on brain function, detailing how substances like inhalants and steroids can damage neurons and impair cognitive abilities. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of protecting the brain from injury and the potential for brain cell regeneration throughout life.

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The Power of

Mind
BRAINPOWER: COMPLEX ORGAN 2

CONTROLS YOUR EVERY THOUGHT


AND MOVE
●A wrinkled, pinkish-gray,
three-pound organ that
primarily composed of fat
and water called
●BRAIN
●Topping spinal chord fired
electrical signals to your
body and telling it how to
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The power to act


Three major parts of the Brain
CEREBRUM- largest of the three brain.
- account of the 85% of the
brains weight and has four lobes.
 Lobes Frontal- personality and
emotions
 Parietal lobe- understand what they
see and feel

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CEREBELLUM- voluntary works.


-Neurons basic
functional units, three
parts units and key to brain
functions.
-Comprised of
nerve cell body, axon and
dendrite.
 Synapse- one cell across the
space.
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● THE BRAIN STEM- The brain


stem that connects to spinal
chord
-keeps people alive, breathing,
heart rate, blood pressure and
food digestion.
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Critical
Stage
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• - protect organ from injury and
chemical abuse.
• Doug Postels a pediatric
neurosurgeon in New Orleans.
•-brain cells regenerate throughout
life.
•- the size of brain doesn’t
increase much after 3.
•-synaptogenesis or creation of
pathways for brain cells to
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Drug Damage
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In two or three columns


INHALANTS MARIJUANA ECSTACY
● Glue -hinders -destroy
● Paint memory, neurons
learning, -serotonin a
● Gasoline
judgement and chemical crucial
● Aerosols reaction times. in controlling
sleep, violence,
STEROIDS mood swings
and sexual
-aggression
urges.
and violent
mood swings.
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“ When people start using a drug, the scientist


know nothing about it. These people are
volunteering to be guinea pigs”
“Once enough people take it, scientist apply
for grants and start studying it.”
“There’s a lot we won’t know about until
later”

-Sue
Rusche
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