{"id":217,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:08:26","slug":"cerebrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"The Cerebrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/BrainAnatomy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The cerebrum is split into 2 hemispheres by a deep fissure. The <a href=\"?p=433\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">twin hemispheres<\/span><\/a> communicate with each other through a thick tract of over 200 million nerve fibers, called corpus callosum, that lies at the base of this fissure.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The surface of the cerebrum and the cerebellum is coated with a vital 6-layers of tissue, about a thumb thick. It is called the cortex, from the Latin word for bark. Most of the information processing takes place in this <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">cerebral cortex<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The folds in the brains add to their surface area and therefore increase the amount of grey matter and the quantity of information that can be processed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our ability to form words &amp; numbers and reason logically seems to lie primarily in the left hemisphere, while the right hemisphere largely controls our creative skills.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Nearly all of the signals from the brain to the body and vice-versa cross over on their way to and from the brain. The right cerebral hemisphere primarily controls the body&#8217;s left side. The left hemisphere the right side.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 218px; height: 200px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/brain-right-left.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=213\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cerebrum is split into 2 hemispheres by a deep fissure. The twin hemispheres communicate with each other through a thick tract of over 200 million nerve fibers, called corpus callosum, that lies at the base of this fissure. The surface of the cerebrum and the cerebellum is coated with a vital 6-layers of tissue,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10902,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/10902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}