BRAIN STRUCTURES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS


The brain is made of three main parts: the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. The forebrain consists of the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus (part of the limbic system). The midbrain consists of the tectum and tegmentum. The hindbrain is made of the cerebellum, pons and medulla. Often the midbrain, pons, and medulla are referred to together as the brain stem.

The Cerebrum: The cerebrum or cortex is the largest part of the human brain, associated with higher brain function such as thought and action. The cerebral cortex is divided into four sections, called "lobes": the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and temporal lobe. Here is a visual representation of the cortex:

• Frontal Lobe- associated with reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving
• Parietal Lobe- associated with movement, orientation, recognition, perception of stimuli
• Occipital Lobe- associated with visual processing
• Temporal Lobe- associated with perception and recognition of auditory stimuli, memory, and speech

The Cerebellum: The cerebellum, or "little brain", is similar to the cerebrum in that it has two hemispheres and has a highly folded surface or cortex. This structure is associated with regulation and coordination of movement, posture, and balance.

Brain Stem: Underneath the limbic system is the brain stem. This structure is responsible for basic vital life functions such as breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure. Scientists say that this is the "simplest" part of human brains because animals' entire brains, such as reptiles (who appear early on the evolutionary scale) resemble our brain stem. 

POSITIVE THINKING


Positive thinking is a very powerful, which you can use to manifest your goals and accomplish difficult task. positive thinking arise from two important aspects of your mind. The first one is,the attitude with which you approach life and view the world in general. Your attitude determines how mind will process the information. Second, your-self image, which how you see yourself and how do you think others think about you. Your-self image determines your-self confident, your behaviors and your relationship with the world and people around you.

Positive thinking is the way of looking at the world with hopeful and cheerful. It is how you would like to position yourself in relation to the certain aspects and the things you interact with. This is how you make sense of the world, how you interpret your knowledge and experience, know how to deal with your problem. When we are in positive thinking, we will see the opportunities compared to the problems that you have in life. We should believe in our ability in order to achieve our goals and dreams. We should have the conviction that we will succeed in reaching our goals and dreams. Believe in our ability to control our mind and thought in the ability of on how we should manifest our intentions and aspirations.  

How To Get a Happiness?


For me, in order to gain a happiness we need to do something that can make us feel satisfied, be yourself and do the things that you want as long as it will not bring harm to other people. Here are some tips on how to get a happiness :
TIPS HOW TO BE HAPPY


1. Remember Life's Grateful Moments:
Try remembering or writing down on a paper few thing you were most grateful for and see how fast your happiness level mark goes up. This will help instantly to reduce your stress.


2. Listen Your Favourite Music:
Listening music of your choice can have significant effect on your health. One of the study claims that pleasant musical therapy can significantly lower heart rates and blood pressure and eventually make you feel stress free and energetic.


3. Are you Single? Find a partner. Set A Healthy Relationship:
Man is social animal and indeed he strives for emotional support and love. Being a bachelor for lifetime or having frequent break-ups with partners is worst. This can ruin your life. Maintaining healthy relationships can do miracles by releasing love hormones named 'Oxycontin'. Oxytocin is associated with feelings of loving bond, faith and trust. It's know to minimize stress.


4. Nourish Your Spirituality For Happiness:
David Myers, a social psychologist at Michigan's Hope College, says that faith provides crucial social support, a feeling of purpose and a reason to concentrate beyond the self, this overall help root people in their communities. So nourish your spirituality to flourish your happiness.

5. Try Earning More Wealth Than Your Peers:
A sociological research done in 2005 by researchers at Pennsylvania State University, USA claimed that wealth (money) can bring happiness especially when you earn more money than people in your age group. So compete with your peers and strive intellectually to earn more money than them. Get inspired from Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, be more creative, use your intelligence and keep practicing your skills.


6. Be Optimistic, Gain Success, Be Happy:
A group of psychologist have claimed that happiness is often an outcome of positive emotions. Optimism is liked to success which is further linked to happiness. So be positive in your life so as to achieve success and eventually gain happiness.


7. Explore Your Heritage and Culture:
One study claimed that teenagers of Mexican, Indian and Chinese ethnicity maintained high quotient of happiness despite daily stress when they had a strong sense of cultural identity. So explore your heritage and culture.


8. Re-Program Your Brain's Positive Thoughts:
"Positive emotions with positive attitudes do have a positive impact on brain's biochemistry" says psychologist Mary Ann Troiani. Optimists accelerates their Serotnin Levels and this reflects they're happy.


9. Share Your Feelings With Family, Friends and Loved ones:
Whenever you share your feelings, tensions and doubts with friends, parents and loved ones you reveal yourself. Nothing remains as a unsolved puzzle or hidden secret. Research have proved that people who share their feelings often with others are tend to be more happy than others who don't. So always share some of your life's moments with your loved ones and make your brain relax.


10. Imagine and Visualise Happiness:
Sometimes psychologist ask people to visualize what they would like to be in their lives. This creates a mental state that makes a person imagine things possible to achieve. Psychologist Mary Ann Troiani says, "If you experience such visualization with your eyes closed ,your brain doesn't know it's real or fake". Such imagination of unreal achievement can bring hopes and such possibility can finally lead to encouraged happiness.

I hope this is will help you to gain your happiness..:)

SOCIAL NETWORKING


Nowadays, social networking has become one of the important things in

our lives. Most of people agree that social networking can give them opportunities to connect with people around the world. From my personal of view,i do agree with the statement because i'm one of the social networking users and i communicate with people around the world through social networking. For me, this is the easier way for me to find a friend because as a student i need something that i don't have to spend a lot of money on that. Social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Tagged and etc become one of the medium for a student like me to communicate with people. As we know that, through this social network, we don't have to meet the particular person instead we can talk to them through chat box. I spend a lot of time on this social network and as a student, this is not right things to do. Some of them agree that social network brings more harm to the users. As example, for student they tend to sleep late at night just because they want to meet their friend online. This is will be a problem for them to wake up in the morning.


For my personal opinion, the particular person should know how to control themselves on social networking. It would not be wrong for them to get involved with social networking but they should know their limit as a student. I have been joining Facebook since 2009 and so far, i don't have problem in my studies, I am able to submit my assignment on time.





As long as w know how to manage ourselves in this particular situation, it will not bring any problem to us. The important thing is, we should not expose to other people about our privacy. Social networking should be something that can make us to release stress and its not a "diary" for us to update any personal details that happened in life.