The answer is A. Transition
Divorce and changing schools is also considered a transitions.
An enviromental change could trigger a drug abuse for teens because it forced them to adapt (socialize with friends, etc)
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
what is this for, why do you need an answer?