What are the responsibilities of the region of the brain highlighted below?
image highlights the central region of the brain, above the brain stem.
a) controlling voluntary body movements, processing information from sense organs, thoughts, and learning abilities
b) regulating important involuntary bodily functions such as blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, and swallowing
c) regulating the body’s homeostasis, hunger and eating, thirst and drinking, and other functions of basic survival
d) coordinating movement and balance by using information from sensory nerves, including hand-eye coordination

answer: andy garner, a 17-year-old who decided to become a human guinea pig in 1965 and go without sleep for 11 days. by the second day his eyes had already stopped focusing, and he lost the ability to identify objects by touch. by day three he was moody and uncoordinated and by the end he had trouble with short term memory and had even started hallucinating.

and a rare genetic mutation called fatal familial insomnia, where people can’t sleep at all, gets progressively worse over months or years and leads to dementia and death.

a devoted soccer fan died after staying awake 48 hours to watch the world cup, she said. ‘while his untimely death was due to a stroke, studies show chronically sleeping fewer than six hours a night increases stroke risk by 4 1/2 times compared with those getting a consistent seven to eight hours.'

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(i have divided it into 3 simple paragraphs)