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The orbitofrontal cortex is able to dampen down this tendency when there isn’t any need to run away

This system works to protect us in our outer environment.

The salience network is the cognitive system the brain uses to determine what is important.

As my colleague Bruce Perry explains it, the brain is formed in a “use-dependent manner.”5 This is another way of describing neuroplasticity, the relatively recent discovery that neurons that “fire together, wire together.”