Sentences with phrase «primitive brain»

Instead, body parts and the primitive brain stem get «stuck» repeating bodily feelings from the past trauma events.

Instead of being able to engage in loving behaviors and responses, we are left with our «shoot first, ask questions later» primitive brain calling the shots.

Negative thinking engages an awful part of your brain, the primitive brain.

This is our primary tool to use in defending against our more primitive brain areas that tend to naturally dominate most of our actions in the markets and cause us to gamble.

It's our primitive brain that «reacts» when the market starts to move against us.

These nutrients allowed the primitive brain to develop into what it is today and continue to be beneficial to modern brains.

In new research being presented at the meeting, scientists suggest that the blood - brain barrier in the brainstem — the primitive brain area responsible for many of the body's basic functions, such as breathing, heart rate, sleeping, and eating — could play a key role salt - induced baroreflexin regulating blood pressure.

According to Dietrich, the data suggests that these primitive brain regions play a crucial role in psychiatric conditions.

«These observations unmask the relevance of primitive brain regions previously linked to eating to other complex behaviors,» said lead author Marcelo Dietrich, M.D., assistant professor of comparative medicine and neurobiology and a member of the Yale Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism at Yale School of Medicine.

In comparison, activity in the different areas of a more primitive brain network became more synchronised under the drug, indicating they were working in a more co-ordinated, «louder» fashion.

The study found that under psilocybin, activity in the more primitive brain network linked to emotional thinking became more pronounced, with several different areas in this network — such as the hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex — active at the same time.

The neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, for example, has noted that the neural machinery for attachment and bonding is actually cobbled together out of more primitive brain areas used for temperature regulation.

It was clear from the long straight lacerations that the human skulls had undergone some sort of primitive brain surgery.

In fact, his more primitive brain is so much in charge (his rational brain is very much still in process), that he is the victim of his emotions and impulses.

It is a primitive brain, and the primitive brain needs the support of a mature brain to help it do things like up - regulate and down - regulate.

The interbrain connects this primitive brain to a mature brain through all the senses - touch, gaze, smell.

This increases brain activity during a time when labor progress relies on a woman's primitive brain instincts.

It's just that anything people can not understand in their puny, primitive brains, is not open to rational consideration UNLESS they are willing to concede that some things are unknowable..

They have been brainwashed to react impusively, using their primitive brains.

Said another way, «We know our primitive brains are going to get us into trouble, let's accept that and practice reducing how we threaten each other, and repair more quickly... because it's good for both of us!»

Not exact matches

But the potential customer processes those messages through a more primitive, instinct - aware part of the brain.

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

For lobsters, it's less clear if their primitive nervous systems and brains even know what pain is.

«This early ancestor possessed primitive teeth and a small brain but it stood upright and walked on two feet.

This is most evident of all in the development of the central nervous system and the brain out of the notochord of more primitive creatures.

-- Some primitive tribes believe supernatural rewards accrue from eating their dead relatives brains.

It is the soul which progressively perfects the primitive organs, and in particular the brain, so that little by little, they adapt to become the instruments of the mind.

In fact our brains are quite limited,, we never created a single thing, everything outside of primitive emotion has been from discovery and accident.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

Religion will cease to be the driving influence of humanity only when 400 millions years of evolution of the primitive parts of the human brain is removed.

In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with each another, forming primitive neural pathways.

Mindfulness does take practice, but each time you practice it, it actively changes the neural pathways in the brain so that it's easier to respond mindfully in stressful moments rather than continue to struggle with the primitive «fight or flight» reactions.

This is a very primitive part of our brain that is one of the driving forces that activates our fight or flight response.

If the baby is taken away from their parents or treated roughly at birth there are more connections made in the hind - brain — the primitive part of the brain, survival mode.

«The low road» of course refers to the reactions typical of the more primitive parts of our brain, or «reptilian brain,» as it's called.

Primitive reflexes are primarily tested with suspected brain injury or some dementias such as Parkinson's disease for the purpose of assessing frontal lobe functioning.

A child having a downstairs tantrum (feeling truly emotionally overwhelmed) can not just stop the tantrum no matter how much you threaten or bribe her to, because she's locked in her primitive downstairs brain and can not access the part that houses reason.

«The broad picture,» Yau says, «is that the local pupillary light reflex appeared early in primitive vertebrates such as jawless fish, even before the brain got involved.

These are CT scan images of the skull roof (front bone in pink, parietal in green) and brain (in blue) of, top to bottom, a chicken, the birdlike dinosaur Zanabazar, the primitive dinosaur Herrerasaurus, and Proterosuchus, an ancestral form that diverged before the bird / crocodile split.

But in his late 19th - century era, brain science was primitive.

V: An addiction has been classically understood as a disease of the primitive limbic brain, not of the cortical areas that are involved in what we call executive function.

In humans the olfactory / memory brain of primitive nocturnal mammals has evolved into the more visual - auditory / memory brain that causes sad movies and sad songs to evoke lost loves and make us cry.

Now, researchers have demonstrated for the first time that even an organism without a brain — a kind of jellyfish — shows sleep - like behaviour, suggesting that the origins of sleep are more primitive than thought.

But physiologists have latched onto the lamprey's primitive nervous system as a way to understand how the brain directs movement.

The sense organs also comprise a primitive kind of memory, a temporary storage system or «buffer» for the brain.

By contrast, Wager's work, published in Science in 2004, suggested that the placebo effect starts in the evolutionarily newer parts of the brain related to expectations and works its way backward toward more primitive areas that release opioids.

The fossils» mix of primitive and more evolved characteristics — such as small brains but body proportions similar to our own — defies how we currently classify our distant ancestors and relatives.

Through trial and error and ingenuity, modern artists have discovered ways of tapping into idiosyncratic aspects of the brain's primitive perceptual grammar, producing the equivalent for the human brain of what the striped stick is for the chick's brain.

Scientists know the nose taps directly into a primitive part of the brain.

Their end goal is to identify specific populations of neurons in the fruit fly brain that are necessary for emotion primitives — and whether these functions are conserved in higher organisms, such as mice or even humans.