Retained Primitive Reflexes
I’ve come to call this set of circuits—from mirror neurons to subcortical regions, back up to the middle prefrontal areas—the “resonance circuits.” This is the pathway that connects
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Central pattern generators: control reflexive actions that are well trained. Intention: duration, path, outcome to deliberately rewire the nervous system. Top-down control causes the release of neuropenephrine, which causes you to feel agitated. Self-control and learning therefore feels agitating.
Andrew Huberman • How Your Brain Works & Changes
the likely physiological basis of our ancestors’ first reading of tokens was a tiny new circuitry connecting the angular gyrus region with a few nearby visual areas and if Dehaene is correct, a few parietal areas involved in numeracy and occipital-temporal areas involved in object recognition
Maryanne Wolf • Proust and the Squid
The downstairs brain includes the brain stem and the limbic region, which are located in the lower parts of the brain, from the top of your neck to about the bridge of your nose. Scientists talk about these lower areas as being more primitive because they are responsible for basic functions (like breathing and blinking), for innate reactions and im
... See moreDaniel J. Siegel • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
sensory processing difficulties can affect all senses, including interoception. That means that we can have a hard time sensing these internal states and/or understanding what to do about them
Insights of a Neurodivergent Clinician • Poor Interoception? Here’s What You Can Do About It
outer and higher cortex—we could call this “vertical integration.” The brain is also divided into two halves, left and right, so neural integration must also involve linking the functions of the two sides of the brain. This could be called “horizontal” or “bilateral integration.”
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
The differences between the systems are more than just labels. Automatic processing originates in the evolutionarily older parts of the brain, including the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and amygdala. Our deliberative mind operates out of the prefrontal cortex.
