What's the most important part of the brain?

The brain stem (base of the brain and top of the spinal cord) is marked as the most critical part of your brain. It includes the midbrain, pons and medulla. This brain part controls certain involuntary actions of the body, including your heartbeat and breathing!

If someone has an injured brain stem that won't function, they'd be sent to their grave. Even if your other brain parts are injured or even dead and the brain stem survives, you'd still be alive in a vegetative state. The same doesn't hold true for the brain stem. Without the brain stem, you can't survive—not even in a vegetative state!

A vegetative state is when the cerebrum no longer functions but the brain stem and the hypothalamus are still working! In a vegetative state, you cannot talk or be aware of your consciousness. But a vegetative state is rare, and it can last for as long up to one month.

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What are your thoughts on this subject?

6 Comments

Rafi Manory

A trick question designed to fail the respondents. We cannot live without any of these parts. They are all important.

Gery Tillmanns

The narrative verified nothing.

Shelley Welch Dunivan

Brain stem is the most important because it is part of the old brain which is responsible for involuntary processes like breathing! They have done hemispherectoms, where they've cut out or disconnected half of the brain and they are still able to function. The left side or the right side for whatever reason compensates for the loss. Where you been? It's been around for a long time. Mostly performed on children with epilepsy Etc.