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The Importance Of The Human Brain

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The brain is such an amazing organ. The function of the brain is to receive information from other parts of the body, understand the information, and the figure out how to respond to the situation. The brain is responsible for such important things such as memory, body movements, the senses, and pretty much everything else. The average female brain weighs about 2.7lbs, and the average male brain weighs about 3lbs. The brain is also one of the fattest organs in the body. A little fun fact about the brain is that all of the blood vessels, located in just the brain, can stretch out to be 100,000 miles long. The human brain is the largest brain compared to all other living things around the same body size, and it makes up about 2% of the body weight.
The nervous system is an important part of the brain, and its purpose is to send messages to the brain. Which is divided into the central and peripheral systems. The central is composed of the brain. The peripheral is made of the spinal cord.
There are three main part of the brain. The forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. The forebrain is located in the anterior part of the brain in the cerebral hemisphere. It consists of the thalamus, hypothalamus, and the subthalamus. (Britannica, encyclopedia britannica, 2017) The midbrain is located in the brain stem. It is responsible in aiding with vision, hearing, and motor control. (Britannica, Midbrain, 2017) Lastly, the hindbrain. The hindbrain consists of the medulla oblongata (breathing

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