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Human Brain - Wikipedia
The brain is largely devoted to monitoring the body, and most of its activity lies outside consciousness, reserving conscious thought for important higher-level activities.
Oxford University Press • The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)
I use the general term brain to encompass all of this wonderful complexity of the body proper as it intimately intertwines with its chemical environment and with the portion of neural tissue in the head.
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
What this means is your entire being—your conscious and logical mind, emotional mind, the reptilian brain, organs, joints, bones, muscles, glands, feelings, core essence, and inner experiences—is essentially one large brain interconnected with all its parts. Your body is a network of creative energy in motion,
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
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Clusters of these wandering cells then start to gather at one end of the spinal cord, ultimately to become the skull-encased brain. But other neural tissue becomes intricately woven with our musculature, our skin, our heart, our lungs, and our intestines. Some of these neural extensions form part of the autonomic nervous system, which keeps the bod
... See moreDaniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
You have a bone at the base of your spine called your sacrum that looks like an upside down triangle with a plateau on the top. On top of that flat surface sits the spinal column, which extends all the way up to your skull. Inside that closed system is the central nervous system, which is made up of the brain and the spinal cord. The spinal cord is
... See moreDr. Joe Dispenza • Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
The brain is not only the command center for sex, it’s also a generator of pleasure. These two functions—enabling sex to happen and setting us up to actually experience pleasure from sex—are inextricably linked in both the brain and the body.
Nan Wise • Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life
And while the nervous system extends throughout the body, and is tuned by environmental and social factors, today’s science rightly insists that the brain—and its contribution to curiosity—is importantly unique.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
This is your cerebrum. It consists of two brain hemispheres that are partially connected in the middle by the corpus callosum. It passes messages between the two halves so that they can communicate with each other. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, and the left side controls the right.