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Freud and his followers such as Jung and
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
6 The emotional brain is at the heart of the central nervous system, and its key task is to look out for your welfare.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
the reptilian brain and limbic system make up what I’ll call the “emotional brain”
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
directly to our hippocampus, our amygdala (an emotion-processing center), and our olfactory cortex (which not only deals with smells but is involved in complex memory, learning, and decision-making tasks), triggering a host of thoughts, feelings, and recollections—yet more likely than not, we note neither smell nor memory.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
Our brains are constantly making connections that are outside our awareness.
Francine Shapiro • Getting Past Your Past
The ego is linked to a structure in the brain called the amygdala, as I said above is commonly referred to as the fear centre of the brain.
Russell Kennedy • Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It
inhibition. It seems that sociocognitive evolution has occurred in the experimental foxes as a correlated by-product of selection on systems mediating fear and aggression.
Michael Gazzaniga • Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Harvard Medical School was and is at the forefront of the neuroscience revolution,