By Charlotte, age 10
Okay, listen up, this is my rap about the brain
I can sing it to you, sing it to you, again and again
Okay, let’s start with the hippocampus
It helps us remember things important to us
Helps me remember my mum’s face
Helps me remember that my middle name is Grace
If you get amnesia or dementia
It makes the hippocampus reboot – over and over
Let’s move on to the amygdala
Shaped like an almond, keeps us safer
Gives us the fight-flight-freeze reaction
Loves to be involved in all the action
We need the amygdala to survive
Even if it does make us wanna fight
Now moving on to the prefrontal cortex
Makes us smarter, lets us write text
Makes us humans who we are
Even helped us to build loads of cars
It helped us to create fiddle-toy sets
Let’s all bow down to the prefrontal cortex