How do you remember the way to your friend's house? Why do your eyes blink without you ever thinking about it? Where do dreams come from? Your brain is in charge of these things and a lot more.

In fact, your brain is the boss of your body. It runs the show and controls just about everything you do, even when you're asleep. Not bad for something that looks like a big gray wrinkly sponge.

Your brain has many different parts that work together. We're going to talk about these five parts, which are key players on the brain team:

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cerebellum (say: sair-uh-BELL-um)
brain stem
pituitary (say: puh-TOO-uh-ter-ee) gland
hypothalamus (say: hy-po-THAL-uh-mus)

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The Biggest Part: the Cerebrum

The biggest part of the brain is the cerebrum. The cerebrum is the thinking part of the brain and it controls your voluntary muscles — the ones that move when you want them to. So you need your cerebrum to dance or kick a soccer ball.

You need your cerebrum to solve math problems, figure out a video game, and draw a picture. Your memory lives in the cerebrum — both short-term memory (what you ate for dinner last night) and long-term memory (the name of that roller-coaster you rode on two summers ago). The cerebrum also helps you reason, like when you figure out that you'd better do your homework now because your mom is taking you to a movie later.

The cerebrum has two halves, with one on either side of the head. Scientists think that the right half helps you think about abstract things like music, colors, and shapes. The left half is said to be more analytical, helping you with math, logic, and speech. Scientists do know for sure that the right half of the cerebrum controls the left side of your body, and the left half controls the right side.

The Cerebellum's Balancing Act

Next up is the cerebellum. The cerebellum is at the back of the brain, below the cerebrum. It's a lot smaller than the cerebrum. But it's a very important part of the brain. It controls balance, movement, and coordination (how your muscles work together).

Because of your cerebellum, you can stand upright, keep your balance, and move around. Think about a surfer riding the waves on his board. What does he need most to stay balanced? The best surfboard? The coolest wetsuit? Nope — he needs his cerebellum!

Brain Stem Keeps You Breathing — and More

Another brain part that's small but mighty is the brain stem. The brain stem sits beneath the cerebrum and in front of the cerebellum. It connects the rest of the brain to the spinal cord, which runs down your neck and back. The brain stem is in charge of all the functions your body needs to stay alive, like breathing air, digesting food, and circulating blood.

Part of the brain stem's job is to control your involuntary muscles — the ones that work automatically, without you even thinking about it. There are involuntary muscles in the heart and stomach, and it's the brain stem that tells your heart to pump more blood when you're biking or your stomach to start digesting your lunch. The brain stem also sorts through the millions of messages that the brain and the rest of the body send back and forth. Whew! It's a big job being the brain's secretary!

Pituitary Gland Controls Growth

The pituitary gland is very small — only about the size of a pea! Its job is to produce and release hormones into your body. If your clothes from last year are too small, it's because your pituitary gland released special hormones that made you grow. This gland is a big player in puberty too. This is the time when boys' and girls' bodies go through major changes as they slowly become men and women, all thanks to hormones released by the pituitary gland.

This little gland also plays a role with lots of other hormones, like ones that control the amount of sugars and water in your body.

Hypothalamus Controls Temperature

The hypothalamus is like your brain's inner thermostat (that little box on the wall that controls the heat in your house). The hypothalamus knows what temperature your body should be (about 98.6°F or 37°C). If your body is too hot, the hypothalamus tells it to sweat. If you're too cold, the hypothalamus gets you shivering. Both shivering and sweating are attempts to get your body's temperature back where it needs to be.

Completely Rebuilt, TheBrain 9 Offers a More Powerful and Extensive Platform for Visualizing Thoughts and Organizing

New features include brand-new native user interface, scaling to millions of objects, built-in attachment previews, timeline and mind mapping view

Los Angeles, Calif. — February 26th, 2018 — TheBrain Technologies, the leading provider of dynamic visualization and knowledge management software, announced its newest release, TheBrain 9.

TheBrain’s context-driven, visual interface offers users an alternative to linear note taking apps, hierarchical file/folder sharing services and conventional mind mapping by dynamically visualizing and reorienting users’ “Thought display” each time a topic is selected. TheBrain’s no-limits network and linking technology enables an unlimited number of topics, links and disparate data sources to be connected and navigated.

Brains can have millions of Thoughts on everything from a user’s top work projects to their philosophy of life. Executives from multiple industries use this technology to visualize and connect complex research and business processes for efficient knowledge delivery. This linking ability has garnered millions of downloads and paid users at more than half of the Fortune 100 organizations, in addition to small business, educational and government institutions worldwide.

The biggest upgrade ever for the company, TheBrain 9 has been re-engineered from the ground up to provide enhanced capabilities in all aspects from the front-end user interface to the back-end data storage.

“TheBrain puts users’ ideas first so complex ideas or projects are not forced into a set of linear folders. Concepts are connected into a meaningful network beyond individual pieces of data,” said Harlan Hugh, CEO of TheBrain Technologies. “TheBrain 9 increases performance and reliability while offering new modes of information discovery.”

TheBrain 9 is full of new features and enhancements including:

Native Application with Improved Speed and Scalability
Featuring a powerful and more robust backend, TheBrain 9 starts faster, is more responsive and scales better. TheBrain was rewritten as a native application and optimized for the OS-specific features on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
New Time Management Features Help Users Get More Done
The all-new timeline features a zooming interface that smoothly scales from one day to multiple years. Events can be synced with Google Calendar and associated directly with thoughts and links.
Advanced Content Display Provides Built-In Viewing of Attachments
TheBrain 9’s embedded browser shows web pages right inside user Brains. PDFs, images and many document types including Microsoft Office files can be viewed without the n

The Brain 9