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When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
A different level of brain activity is involved for each response: the mammalian fight-or-flight system, which is protective and keeps us from shutting down, and the reptilian brain, which produces the collapse response.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Clayton Page Aldern • How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds | Aeon Essays
Estrogen is neuroprotective, shielding brain cells from the effects of oxidative stress and amyloid beta toxicity, high levels of which have been linked to the type of cellular damage that occurs in Alzheimer’s disease.
Mary Claire Haver MD • The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
As long as the trauma is not resolved, the stress hormones that the body secretes to protect itself keep circulating, and the defensive movements and emotional responses keep getting replayed.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Cerebral activity in the prefrontal area of the brain, the part involved in executive functions, decision-making and other complex cognitive processes, may be reduced.12 Your body may produce lower levels of cortisol, which is released to help the body respond to stress.13
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
