Question

Choose a part of the brain. Describe its anatomy and location, and draw its location.

Discuss the following:

a) Disease that effects this part of the brain

b) Why this part of the brain fascinates you

c) Why this part of the brain is so important in your opinion

Answer 1

I am choosing Broca's area of the brain. Broca's area is present in the left side of of frontal lobe of cerebral hemisphere in the brain.

a: Broca's area gets damaged during stroke or during severe brain infections or during Alzheimer's disease or during any brain trauma.

b: Broca's area of the brain fascinates me because it is this part of the brain which is important for speech production.

c:  Broca's area function is to convert ideas into thoughts and thoughts into spoken words. In a situation when Broca's area gets damaged then the person finds difficulty in speaking clearly. The speech becomes slurry and and the speech becomes slow because of difficulty in producing sounds of speech and the person is not able to express himself.Due to this the person tends to speak short sentences with less words. The condition is called as Broca's aphasia.