Sublime

“diminished memory effect.”

Often there is excessive activity in the right temporal lobe, the fear center of the brain, combined with too much frontal slow-wave activity. This means that their hyperaroused emotional brains dominate their mental life. Our research showed that calming the fear center decreases trauma-based problems and improves executive functioning.

Episodic memory.

who we are and what we do is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

The idea of Rome as the Eternal City inspired one of Freud's most memorable metaphors. In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud imagines a fantastical Rome ‘in which nothing that ever took shape has passed away, and in which all previous phases of development exist beside the most recent'. In this truly eternal city, every building would exist in

it’s difficult to remember last week’s lunch because your brain has filed it away with all the other lunches you’ve ever eaten as just another lunch.

The parts of the brain involved in mind wandering are referred to as the default mode network,2 because it is activated automatically when the brain isn’t focused on specific tasks.

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.