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Neuroception evaluates risk in the environment without awareness.
Stephen W. Porges • The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
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
Discoveries in neuroscience have established convincingly the key role played by the hierarchical capabilities of the neocortex as well as offered evidence for the pattern recognition theory of mind (PRTM). This evidence is distributed among many observations and analyses, a portion of which I will review here. Canadian psychologist Donald O. Hebb
... See moreRay Kurzweil • How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
“you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules”.
Greg Taylor • Stop Worrying! There Probably Is an Afterlife
it is the dumb, novelty-seeking portion of the brain driving the limbic system that induces this feeling of pleasure, not the planning, scheduling, higher-level thought centers in the prefrontal cortex.
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
neurocomplexity
Tommi • 2 cards
Not surprisingly, a number of mental-health-related issues, including panic disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, and the mood-related symptomology of PMS are characterized by lower-than-average levels of GABAergic activity.