Brain Mapping Project- Lucy Pitman by

Cerebellum

ljpitman248 — 2025-10-02 14:26:11 UTC

The Cerebellum is located of the back of the brain, that plays a crucial role in coordinating voluntary movements, maintaining balance and posture and is involved in cognitive functions like learning, emotional regulation and consciousness. This is why after John's accident he had trouble balancing and felt dizzy.

Hippocampus

ljpitman248 — 2025-10-02 14:44:13 UTC

The hippocampus plays a crucial role in memory, learning, and spatial navigation. Due to Sarah's stress, it affects her hippocampus which causes her to be unable to retain information. Things such as relaxing and rest can help improve her memory.

Broca's Area

ljpitman248 — 2025-10-02 15:39:46 UTC

The Broca's Area is responsible for speech production and forming sentences. It works with brain regions to plan and coordinate the muscle movements needed for speech. It can be damaged by traumatic brain injury and progressive diseases.

Amygdala

ljpitman248 — 2025-10-02 15:48:34 UTC

The Amygdala plays a crucial role in processing emotions, particularly fear, anxiety, and reward. The Amygdala plays a critical role in addiction by heightening the brains stress response during withdrawal and in Jake's case, becoming over-sensitized to the rewarding cues of smartphones, driving the compulsive need to check for notifications.

Pre-frontal cortex

ljpitman248 — 2025-10-02 15:59:49 UTC

The Pre-frontal cortex is responsible for creativity, attention impulse, empathy and compassion, goal directed behavior. When the Pre-frontal cortex is affected by stress it impacts, focus and attention, coordinating complex abilities, regulating emotions, and making decisions. Stress reduces creativity by, increasing cognitive load, narrows focus to potential dangers, and disrupts the brain networks involved in creativity, leading to tunnel vision and the inability to think and generate ideas.

Final Reflection

ljpitman248 — 2025-10-02 17:00:23 UTC

This scenario is most interesting to me because no physical traumatic damage was done to the brain, it was all mental and it still have a major impact. Stress causing the brain to not be able to retain information is very intriguing. Also, how the cure to it is just relaxing and rest. Learning about the brain in everyday life is important because it enhances well being and it is important to know about the human body and its functions in case of dangers.