Limbic System
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes
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Brooks: Pausing Lets Slow Prefrontal Cortex Override Fast Limbic Reactions
“Your limbic system is fast. Your prefrontal cortex is slow. Let your prefrontal cortex catch up, and you can manage a lot of your negative emotions. Use them in an appropriate way. React the way that you want to. You'll get a lot happier.”
Brooks: Paraphrasing in fights is meant to calm your own limbic system
“When you're actually having an argument And your partner says something you don't like, you stop, you think about it, and then you say, is what you're trying to say, and then you paraphrase what your partner's just said, this has, all you've done is given your…”
Huberman: Optic flow from walking outdoors suppresses anxiety and threat detection
“Optic flow when you're just walking through space, not looking at anything like your phone or anything in particular, that optic flow is known to Suppress a circuit in the limbic system that involves the threat detection centers. It is very calming to walk thr…”
Markham: Children's limbic systems develop biologically through parental interaction
“Our children are born with very incomplete neural systems, and so their limbic system, which is the old word for the emotional parts of the brain and neurology, that limbic system is born pretty unfinished and takes shape in interaction with the parent.”
Markham: Delaying gratification builds neural pathways for self-regulation in children
“They learn that they can give up something they want in the immediate moment for something they want more. And they build, that's actually building neural pathways between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system. So they become better able to self-regulate…”