Sentences with phrase «reptilian brain stem»

When we are having big emotions, we are physically coming from our reptilian brain stem, where the fight, flight or freeze response comes from.

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Thus, the earliest or reptilian portion of the brain, associated primarily with the brain stem, is most involved with autonomic regulation and the most basic of survival Strategies involving food, procreation and territoriality.
Sometimes called the reptilian brain because its basic structure dates back to our reptile ancestors, the brain stem is largely devoted to our most primal instincts, far removed from the complex, higher - brain skills that allow us to understand humor.
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