are going to once and for all memorize the major parts of the brain let's start with the part that you can see outside here in this course is the cerebral cortex all right all this convoluted stuff on the outside of the brain now take a look at the word cerebral cortex now i'm going to do is look for words inside of these words and there are a number of words inside cerebral cortex but i'm going to go with the ending tex okay now when i see the word tex why of course i think of texas right tex so now all i have to do really is just put a little there you go a little texas hat on my cerebral cortex and there you go that will remind you that the cortex is the part just under the hat right part on the outside of the brain and now i've got to connect it with what the cerebral cortex does and the cortex is involved with a variety of things but mostly with very complex thinking so when you think of complex thinking just think of e equals m c squared so when you have to remember what the cerebral cortex is just identify with the word text think about the hat here on the outside of the brain or put it on your head whatever there you go and there you go complex thinking complex cortex a little bit of a rhyme there okay the corpus callosum now perhaps you remember that the corpus callosum is the the part that connects the two halves of the brain now when i think about the word corpus callosum um i i could see a couple of words in there i can see core almost the word plus and colo sum plus and sum now that's kind of good because what the corpus callosum does is sort of add together the two parts of the brain so for example if you had a brain now this isn't really quite right because the the fissure there between the two hemispheres isn't quite right the brain is actually in two parts so what you need to do is take your brain here make sure it's in two parts and in order to do that we'll just at least to this brain we're just gonna have to cut this brain in two now of course you don't wanna try this at home now you got a right and a left hemisphere right and uh unfortunately in this brain this is hollow but that's because uh that must be because this because this is a no-brainer anyway core plus colossum so it is the part of the brain that goes right between the two halves and adds them together and that's your mnemonic all right just kind of think of the plus and the sum part although there is another possibility which is that the la the second word colossum sounds like call some one because the thing you got to remember is that what the corpus callosum does it's this this fibers that connects these two halves and allows the two halves of the brain to communicate so it's sort of like if you had a phone here and uh the corpus callosum is of course not a wireless phone the part that connects these two halves of the brain here there you go the messages goes back and forth back and forth that's what the corpus callosum does so it's either call someone or core plus colossum what best i can do okay number three would be the thalamus all right let's get rid of this now what do you see in the word thalamus i see two words hal and amos hal and amos well here they are here okay now this is my hyaline amos okay here's the picture of the brain and the body here so they're here in the brain al and amos and here's all these signals coming from the body represented by these cars here now signals coming up from the body and then hal and animus tell them where to go to be processed in the brain so this first one comes up here and hal says hey all right head over to the occipital lobe and then this one goes okay head over to the parietal lobe so it's telling these things these sensations where to go and they're going around of course they're coming in from the body so there's all this information coming in to the brain and then how namas are telling that information they're acting as traffic cops and they're telling that those pieces of information where to go in the brain to be processed now that's the thalamus what about the hypothalamus now do you want to use halonamus again i don't think so i don't like to mix up to two mnemonics so you'll look at the word hypothalamus and what do you see well of course the word hypo all right and this is a hypo okay it's a toy hypo and then there's helen amos now i i don't know you um i couldn't really work too much with uh hal and amy so i looked at the word and one way to play with mnemonics with words is to sort of toy around with the accent in the syllables and if you look at hypothalamus you might see hypo the llamas hypo the llamas now of course you know what llamas are and if you're having trouble forget it remembering here you go here's two llamas now how am i going to associate a hypo with two llamas well it's a bizarre enough uh you know kind of imagery here this hypo with the llamas but what does the hypothalamus do okay now the hypothalamus does a lot of things among them i heard it referred to as the thermometer of the body that it regulates body temperature that it lets you know about hunger and thirst and the major drives like the sex drive so let's see how about this i'm going to put my two llamas on this plate here and you'll see why in a second what would i have to do well what if i filled my hypo and here's a rather large hypo what if i what if these llamas were all they've just been out on a long run and they're hot and they're thirsty and what i'd have to do is go around with this hypo and i'd have to hypo them like this here i'm hypoing the llamas to cool them down this is water i'm cooling them down because they're all hot and now they're getting cooled down and their hypothalamus is reacting to that and here they're a little bit thirsty so i'm going to give them a little bit of water there a little bit of water there you go so now they're not thirsty anymore maybe they're not as much hungry and their bodies are cooled down there you go so the hypothalamus is the part of the brain that cools you down that regulates body temperature and that regulates thirst and hunger and other drives as well but we'll stick to those two all right hypo the llamas there you go hypothalamus okay now how about something similar the hippocampus now of course some things are easy oop gotta get this you have a word like hippocampus what obviously you have to go with the hippo okay now this is a hippo not to be confused with a rhinoceros this is a hippo and a hippocampus now you could imagine a hippo stomping around on campus or on your camp right but remember we have to put hippocampus or a hippo with what the hippocampus does and hippocampus primarily is involved in memory now what else do you see with the word hippocampus well it could be hippo compass okay now here is a compass all right it's gonna flip it open here now what's good about that and why that works is the a compass is used when you're lost and you can't remember where home is so if you had a lost hippo well this hippo would take out his compass and he'd say well where the hell the heck do i get back to the swamp right that's what he would do so i'm going to imagine for hippo campus that i have a hippo all right with a compass that's because he's lost he needs to remember how to get home okay hippo compass okay there we go let's move along here next one amygdala that one was probably the toughest one what have you got in the word amygdala well you do have a mig now if you know what a mig is kind of an attack plane which might work for you if you're comfortable with that what does the amygdala the amygdala do it primarily regulates our sense of fear okay so if you imagine a and a mig flying towards you that would scare you and that would help you remember that the amygdala is about regulating fear okay now if the idea of uh mig doesn't really work for you you're not into military type stuff then the other possibility is to look at the word and think about things that rhyme with it so what rhymes with mig well this right here a wig okay so a wig now that's all fine and good how are you going to associate wig with fear well you'd have to get yourself of course a scary wig like this one okay this one that's right a scary wig now that's mig wig there's another part to the word amygdala though and that's the last part dala d-a-l-a now what can you do with that well you know somebody might come up to you and say hey excuse me have you got a dollar right so what you'd have to do is get yourself where my dollars there they are get yourself some dollars and associate them with the wig all right so i'm going to put some dollars on here and i'm going to just associate them with the wig so there we go we got a wig with dollars and he's actually hundred dollars but we won't pay attention to that all right we got a couple of dollars over here which makes the wig even more bizarre this is this very strange wig here it's got dollars all over it very scary okay that is a wig dolla okay very scary yes indeed a wigdola scary stuff okay next now how about pawns p-o-n-s this one's not too hard because you have uh a word that looks like pawns just throw a d in there and you have the word pons now what does the pons do well interestingly the pons regulates relaxation so it helps you to relax and and sleep as well so all you have to do then is use your imagination and imagine that you are lying next to a pond and you're relaxing ah yeah sorry about that i was relaxing thinking about a pond okay that's what the pons does next cerebellum all right not too hard right in the middle of cerebellum a bell right so that's kind of the other otherwise i don't see anything else in there the cerebellum okay fine you say but what does a cerebellum do cerebellum is involved with balance and motor control and so you have to think about that what would i do with that a lot of books refer to athletes uh and athletic ability associated with the cerebellum so what you could do is you could imagine you're an athlete that you think a lot about someone you're a fan of and that person has a lot of bells right so picture bells maybe hanging off of that person all right so associate bell with an athlete maybe a dancer someone maybe someone who walks across ropes and do buildings right there's a lot of balance involved there that would help you out maybe you want to put a a bell on someone's head right in there trying to balance the bell on the head and that's what will help you with cerebellum okay we're getting towards the end reticular formation it's kind of a tough one you look at reticular formation what do you see well right in the middle is the word tickle okay and so for example i just happen to have a a doll here that may help us memorize this because what does the reticular formation do well it has to do with alert and arousal right so if you're driving a car and a deer comes up in front of you and you go like this you're suddenly more alert that's the reticular formation so tickle all right well this right here you may recognize this this is a famous uh famous person in the history of psychology this of course is sigmund freud all right and this sort of looks a lot like if you go to his office pictures of his office in vienna uh you would see that his couch looks a little bit like my daughter's groovy girl's bed so here he is so here's what you're imagining here's freud now he's between patients he's lying down he's taking a nap all right and somebody comes along maybe that person has a feather you know and they tickle him so they tickle freud this is okay so if you were to tickle freud if you were to tickle freud while he was asleep his reticular formation would wake him up and he would say hey about this you're going on around here or something like that okay there you go reticular formation last one medulla okay look in the word medulla what do you see metal all right just happen to have some medals here all right here's a gold medal of course it's a fake gold medal i got a bunch of these gold medals here you go let's take this off put this on a bunch of gold medals now what does the medulla do well the medulla regulates someone killing other things the heart and lungs and here are these med dolls and they're right over [Music] my heart and lungs so if you were to think of that maybe you think of michael phelps the recent olympics all the medals right all the metals are over the heart and lungs metal medulla metal heart and lungs one last way to memorize it this right here maybe we'll get a good picture of that right there all right how about that picture this is a jello heart you can see it's jello like that there you go jello heart kind of disgusting but if what the other thing you can do though is associate your metals with the heart and what i'm going to do though is i'm going to stick the metals right into the heart there right they're going to stick them in there going to stick the metal over there i'm gonna stick a metal over there and there you go metals in a heart that's kind of disgusting and that's one of the keys to mnemonics make it disgusting hope this helps you to memorize the parts of the brain remember all these things go over them and on the website www.thecycfiles.com i'll have a list of all these mnemonics and you can download it from there okay thanks a lot hope you found this fun and useful see you next time on the psycpiles