Poor social and economic circumstances affect health throughout life. ... Such psychosocial risks accumulate during life and increase the chances of poor mental health and premature death. Long periods of anxiety and insecurity and the lack of supportive friendships are damaging in whatever area of life they arise.
I don't think you mean above the medula oblongata, i think you mean something else because the connection between the two hemispheres is connected by the Corpus Callosum which is above of the thalamus.
The only answer that i can make sense of what you've wrote is A Cerebellum but i don't think you are correct forming your question. Where did you find the question
Enabled behavior..they allow the alcoholic to keep doing what he does even tho they know it's harmful just to not get him in trouble..kinder..lol..so the person is an enabler