by Caroline von Fluegge-Chen
Or, an explanation to why, when your nerve system is out of balance, you’re mad at the world and downright impatient; you’re hungry all of the time; your libido is on the fritz, you can’t remember the simplest things; your moods are going haywire; you feel overwhelmed; you can’t sleep; you’re always sick; you can’t sit still; your kids are traveling down that very same pathway…and why you and your family should be getting chiropractic care now to stay healthy and sane.
Frontal Lobes: Consciousness; attention; motivation; thinking; problem-solving; judgments; planning; movement; memory; mood control; language; word associations; processing socio-emotional information; rhythm and intonation of speech; how people initiate activity in response to their environment; emotional balancing; assigns meaning to the words we choose.
Parietal Lobes: Goal-directed voluntary movements; manipulation of objects; body awareness; arousal; perception of stimuli; physical orientation; location of visual attention and touch perception; recognition; association; reading comprehension, math and grammar; association between self, the environment and others; naming objects; integration of different senses (sight, taste, sound, smell, touch) that allows for an understanding of a single concept.
Temporal Lobes: Memory acquisition; short and long-term memory; emotional balancing; temper control and aggression; language function; perception; comprehension; facial recognition; categorization of objects by color; recognition of auditory stimuli and auditory perception.
Occipital Lobes: Visual processing; sequential memory functions; arousal; balance and coordination.
Cerebellum: Finer aspects of movement such as dancing, walking, writing, or playing a musical passage.
Hemispheres: Right – Emotional quotient (EQ); early self-concept; social encoding; social skills; face recognition; emotional processes; negative emotions; empathy; nonverbal expression and association; spatial memory and problem-solving; auditory processing; musical processing. Left – Intelligence quotient (IQ); logic; verbal association; verbal expression; verbal memory; auditory processing, word recognition; math and grammar problem-solving.
Basil Ganglia: Manages anxiety level by smoothing integration of thoughts, feelings, movement.
Limbic System: Dedicated to survival controlling appetite, sex drive, muscle tone, arousal of emotions, sleep, relaxation and tension; gatekeeper for all incoming sensory information; translates emotional states into physical feelings; fight or flight response; highly charged storage area of emotions and memories.
Thalamus and Hypothalamus: Regulates levels of arousal (sleep and wakefulness) and levels of awareness; relay station for incoming sensory stimuli and permits the senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to be used in combination; maintains physical balance between brain and body by regulating blood pressure, emotion (anger, aggression), thirst, hunger, fatigue, body temperature, blood sugar level; links the nerve system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland to control hormones (growth, metabolism, fertility, pregnancy, lactation, organ function, pain relief, stress management, water regulation, etc.)
Amygdala: Stores memories of traumatic experiences; monitors incoming stimuli for anything threatening and activates the fight or flight freeze stress response when danger is detected; responsible for precipitating changes in heart rate and blood pressure in response to threats.
Hippocampus: Similar to a memory chip in a computer – the hub of memory and learning; site where conscious memory is stored; converts short-term memory to more permanent long-term memory.
Caroline von Fluegge-Chen
With an emphasis on family care for more than 24-years, Dr. Caroline von Fluegge-Chen has created a unique program of promoting peak performance found only at Balance Atlanta. She combines specialties of family chiropractic, functional medicine, and BrainCore Therapy to address structural integrity, optimal brain function, and body chemistry balance.
