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Medulla Oblongota. 1  The part of the brain that regulates basic functions like heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, coughing, sneezing. 2  The part of the brain where the optic nerves cross., the point at which the optic nerves from the inside half of each eye cross over and then project to the opposite half of the brain.
Sneezes protect your body by clearing the nose of bacteria and viruses, Kao explains. When something enters your nose or you encounter a trigger that sets off your sneeze center in your brain, located in the lower brain stem, signals are rapidly sent to tightly close your throat, eyes, and mouth.Next, your chest muscles vigorously contract, and then your throat muscles quickly relax.ut signals traveling along nerves can take slightly different paths to and from the brain, resulting in different sneeze scenarios from person to person. It's a nerve transmission that tells your brain something is in your nose that needs to come out, Kao tells WebMD. 2.