Does the brain help us to breathe?

Question: Does the brain help us to breathe?
- Keywords:
  brain,
  breathing,
  human body
Asked by mw to Claire, Liad, Ruth, Ryan, Mako on 17 Jun 2015.
- Liad Baruchin answered on 17 Jun 2015:
  
  Yes. Actually a part of the brain called the ‘medulla oblongata’ is responsible for most of our automatic actions: like breathing, digesting, cardiac(heart) function and so on.

Question: Does the brain help us to breathe?