What brain region is strongest for you?

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Or more like what regions work best for you and which don't. I'm generalizing their functions and I know nothing about neurology but I am curious to hear your thoughts on this. For example, I've noticed that I have a strong problem-solving capacity, typical for an adequately developed frontal lobe. I'm a fast thinker and come to creative solutions to problems efficiently. I'm also overwhelmed with emotion, sensory experiences, and anxiety at times, leading to a meltdown, something where my frontal lobe is clearly overpowered by other regions.

Here's a quick and extremely generalized list I've made (obviously the brain is a LOT more complicated than this):

- Frontal Lobe: Emotional management, self awareness, intelligence (general), speech, problem solving, personality, behavior, mood, judgement, calculation, movement and body control, self-regulation, etc.

- Parietal Lobe: Language interpretation, several senses like touch and pain, perception, some vision, signals from your environment are processed here.

- Occipital Lobe: All pretty much vision, more interpretation, light, color, etc.

- Temporal Lobe: Memory, auditory sense, organization, sequencing.

My source for the guide: https://mayfieldclinic.com/pe-anatbrain.htm
http://www.brainfacts.org/3d-brain#intr ... s_callosum

- Limbic System: Instinct, mood, fear, pleasure, anger, and basic drives.

Probably parietal lobe. Temporal is easily the worst since I had damage there and removal of a hippocampus that never worked in 2014.

The place in my skull where the parietal lobes are is weirdly exaggerated, and I do have above average proprioception.

I think my bigger issue isn't which region works or doesn't, I think it's how they connect, or rather don't connect, to process information between them.

The polyvagal theory developed by Stephen Porges describes how animals respond to threats. These systems are orchestrated by the primitive structures in our brain stem—the upper part of the brain stem. They're instinctive and they're almost reflexive. The tonic immobility is the most primitive system, and it spans probably over 500 million years. It is a combination of freezing and collapsing—the muscles go limp, the person is left without any energy. The next in evolutionary development is the sympathetic nervous system, the fight-or-flight response. And this system evolved from the reptilian period, which was about 300 million years ago. Its function is enhanced action (fight-or-flight). Finally the third and most recent system is the social engagement system, and this occurs only in mammals. Its purpose is to drive social engagement—making friends—in order to defuse the aggression or tension.

If you think of the social brain as the outer brain, the sympathetic nervous system as the middle brain and the most primitive brain in our brain stem as the core. When humans are subjected to stress, it collapses inward. If the social brain cannot control the situation, it collapses to the sympathetic nervous system. If fight or flight response cannot resolve the threat and we cannot escape, then it collapses down to the inner brain. The inner brain uses freezing and collapsing. We fall to the ground unable to move or speak.

When any organism perceives overwhelming mortal danger with little or no chance for escape, the biological response is a global one of paralysis and shutdown. Ethologists call this innate response tonic immobility. Humans experience this frozen state as helpless terror and panic. Highly traumatized and chronically neglected or abused individuals are dominated by the immobilization/shutdown system. In Aspies we call this state a major meltdown. The part of the brain that controls speech is deactivated, taken off line.

My medulla oblongata can deadlift 800 lbs.

The region located in my skull.

For a lot of men, supposedly, the region in their groin is stronger.

^^^or as we said in uncle sam's army, "little head versus big head."

None of the parts of my brain work well but if I had to pick which was strongest I would pick Temporal Lobe except my memory is bad.