
Last but not the least, the medulla helps you breath, walk, sleep and signal the heart to continue beating. The signals sent to the cerebral cortex that helps in attending stimulation and remain alert while sleeping is taken care of by the reticular formation. The body coordination and control of posture and maintenance of equilibrium is taken care by the cerebellum. The area that helps you dream and wake up from your sleep is the pons. It then sends the message across the cerebral cortex to the region where further analysis of the information continues. The thalamus interprets the sensory information and helps determine what is good and bad. These five regions are the central areas that regulate breathing, pulse, arousal, balance, sleep and early stages of processing sensory information. The central core consists of the thalamus, pons, cerebellum, reticular formation and medulla. Let us have a look at the human brain diagram and learn a few facts about this ‘intelligent’ organ. Soon, scholars of the 0 AD till 1500 AD confirmed that brain is the power behind the successful working of the body.Īfter the ban on dissection of human body was lifted by the Church during Renaissance, great minds like Leonardo da Vinci and Rene Descartes began to take a look behind other minds and documented the information related to the parts of the brain. This makes the ancient idiom ‘memorize by heart’ sound superficial. Aristotle, claimed that it is the human brain that is the hand behind all the body actions and not the heart. In 387 BC, Plato taught his pupils in Athens, that brain is where the mental thought process takes place. It was Hippocrates, father of medicine who discovered that brain plays a part in sensation and intelligence. The first people to call the brain the commander and controller of the human body were the Greeks and the Egyptians of 4000 BC. Each day there is a new discovery that adds to the unending functions of the human brain. Unraveling the human brain has been a long journey that still continues.

The most complex organ of the human body system is invariably the human brain.
