Dean Burnett

Idiot Brain

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  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    “neuron” is the official name for brain cells, or “nerve” cells, and they are the basis for the whole nervous system. Each one is essentially a very small bio
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    n the body. To extend my earlier metaphor, if the thalamus is the station, the hypothalamus is the taxi stand outside it, taking important things into the city where they get stuff done.
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    the sensory information is relayed to the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for strong emotional processing, and fear in particular.
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    f the brain were a city, the thalamus would be like the main station where everything arrives before being sent to where it needs to be.21 T
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for strong emotional processing
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    The thalamus connects to both the advanced conscious parts of the brain in the cortex and the more primitive “reptile” regions in the midbr
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    If the brain were a city, the thalamus would be like the main station where everything arrives before being sent to where it needs to be.
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    There’s the hypnic jerk, where you twitch suddenly and un
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    REM sleep is when dreaming occurs,
  • Catherine Espinosahas quoted3 years ago
    we sleep; we’re colder then than when we’re awake.
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