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Your brain is built like a dam that recognizes acute crisis and holds it all together so that you can do what is needed in the moment. Then once the acute threat has passed and you feel psychologically safe, the dam breaks, you let your guard down, and your true emotions come to the surface. It’s a deluge.
Dr. Aditi Nerurkar M.D. • The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience
One might say that Elliot had become irrational concerning the larger frame of behavior, which pertained to his main priority, while within the smaller frames of behavior, which pertained to subsidiary tasks, his actions were unnecessarily detailed.
Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error
La vida secreta del cerebro: Cómo se construyen las emociones (Contextos) (Spanish Edition)
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In subsequent work he was able to locate neurological damage to the part of their brains that create and control our sense of body image. This damage had occurred at birth, or very early on. This meant that the brain could create a body image in a perfectly healthy person that was highly irrational. It seemed as well that our sense of self is far m
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acid, is a neurotransmitter that plays an important role in the prefrontal inhibition of subcortical firing, and she had imagined it as
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
fonctionnement défectueux de multiples aires cérébrales de Nadia a libéré son lobe pariétal droit – son module rasa
Vilayanur Ramachandran • Le cerveau fait de l'esprit : Enquête sur les neurones miroirs (Quai des Sciences) (French Edition)
Memory is shown to be not so much a library but more a repository of ready-to-run routines that enable our daily living.
Vincent Deary • How We Are
The Relativistic Brain: How it works and why it cannot be simulated by a Turing machine (Brains, computers, society)
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Dr. Treffert isn’t sure how to explain this phenomenon even though he’s been studying it since 1962. He comments: “I’m not entirely closed to the possibility that there is some link to a universal knowledge.…It seems like savants, especially autistic savants, know so many things they haven’t learned, and it’s almost as if they tapped into a univers
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