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Brain Disease

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The Brain
The brain is the most complex organ in the body and serves as the center of the nervous system. It is well known that a person having a whole brain is crucially important to perform normal human functions. Let’s assume that I have come down with some rare brain disease that would cause my brain to swell and I needed neurosurgery to remove 5 parts of my brain before the swelling was fatal. Maybe just as complex as the brain would be a decision on which parts of the brain one could live without while maintaining the best quality of life.
The brain stem is one of the most essential parts of the human brain. This part of the brain connects to the spinal cord and consists of the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata. The brain stem controls functions vital to life in any human such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, swallowing, and the flow of messages from the brain to the rest of …show more content…

The hypothalamus is the part of the brain that regulates body temperature, emotions, hunger, thirst, sleeping and waking. This part of the brain also controls the pituitary gland and regulates hormones. Damage or loss to the hypothalamus will most likely result in unusual happenings with your hormones.
I personally don’t think I can live without any parts of my brain. The way the brain functions is what makes us who we are as humans. If I absolutely had to choose some areas of the brain to be removed I would try to find areas of the brain that would keep me as close to normal as possible or as normal as you can get while removing so much of your brain.
The first area of the brain I would choose for removal would be the Occipital lobe. This lobe is located toward the back of the brain at the base of the cortex. This area processes visual information from the eyes. Color, Light and movement are all things that are processed here. Removal of this lobe would most likely result in vision loss or total

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