Awesome

Thank you so much to Lisa Feldman for this piece of art, a must read for the fine-tuning of everyone's network 🧠!
I loved listening this and "how emotions are made" with her own voice. I think is awesome that she took the time to read it to us with the adequate intonation; it reduces the chance to give a different interpretation to the words, in my opinion.

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Great

I learned a lot, I could even use it for my university essays and I highly recommend this book. One of the best I ever listened to, and after that I actually went out, bought and read it, so as you can see, I am really amazed.

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Sehr guter Einblick in den Stand der neurologischen Forschung

Wesentliche Themen werden hier allgemeinverständlich und dennoch relativ kurz und knapp zusammengefasst. Sehr empfehlenswert. Wesentlich besser als ihr langatmiges und selbstdarstellerisches Standardwerk wie Emotionen gemacht werden.

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Eigentlich eine Frechheit

Wer sich mit Neurowissenschaften oder Psychologie etwas auskennt, der wird sich entsetzlich langweilen. Wer etwas darüber lernen möchte, wird am Ende entsetzlich enttäuscht sein über die vielen Allgemeinplätze, die sehr spekulativ sic und eher die politische Meinung der Autorin wiedergeben. Außer das wir wohl unser Gehirn brauchen, weil wir nun einmal eines haben, hat dieses Buch wenig damit zu tun und wiederholt nur Allgemeinwissen, dass schon lange bekannt und ansonsten ziemlich überflüssig ist. Der Leser bleibt verwirrt und intellektuell unbefriedigt zurück.
Nicht zu empfehlen, es gibt besseres. Schade.

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Good overview of the brain

This book was well written and easy to follow along with. The author did a great job explaining everything and finding metaphors for everything. I personally didn’t glean any new information from the book, but it’s a short read and interesting enough.

Lesson ½: your brain was not made for thinking. During the Cambrian period the amphioxus further developed to not only master its environment, but sense its surroundings and it developed motor senses. They became more energy efficient and learned to predict and prepare before attacks [called allostasis]. The brain developed to budget the body and energy and predict threats better.
Lesson 1: Plato says humans have 3 brains. One for surviving (cerebral cortex), one for feeling (limbic system), and one for thinking (neo-cortex). This has been proven wrong by neurons in the 1990s. The brains of all mammals are built the same with the same order/ structuring of neurons. This structure is maintained even through birds and fish. The difference is that our cerebral cortex is larger in relation to the rest of the brain and different parts of our brain developed longer than those in other animals.
Lesson 2: Your brain is a network. Dendrites are the bushy leaves of neurons and axons are the roots which send impulses to other neurons. The electrical impulses sent cause chemicals called synapses to be released in between the neurons. The brain optimizes the wiring of this network to use as few resources as possible and save energy. Like a flight plan/ airports, your brain has clusters like flight hubs. These densely connected areas help communicate more efficiently. Hug damage is related to many disorders and ailments. Neurotransmitters are chemicals like the staff in an airport. They can speed up or slow down communication. Serotonin or dopamine can act on other hubs as well to dial up or down activity. These are neuromodulators and act like weather does on flight plans- they can ground everything if there is a storm. Neurons die and are born continuously. Connections can be numerous or few and they are stronger when the neurons fire together, these are called plasticity. Neurons can do multiple things as well. If you are blindfolded for days, the neurons which transmit information about vision will reorganize to transmit information about hearing or touch. The prefrontal cortex for example is responsible for almost everything and can change its job based on what is needed. Degeneracy means that doing the same task twice can use different neurons each time, such as you can fly from CLT to MUC twice and take different paths on different airlines each time. Brain networks are complex for redundancy. If a hub is taken out, the brain can rewire itself to take over the functions of that hub until it can repair itself. Brains also don’t store information like a computer. Each time you remember something, the memory is built by neurons and may be built by different neurons each time. Your brain has more than just neurons though so these have to be taken into account as well.
Lesson 3: little brains wire themselves to their world. Kids are born with bushy dendrites which are lost as stronger connections are built and adapted to their environments. Dendrites which are not used can be lost within only a couple of days. Caregivers teach them language, how to focus, how to socialize, and how to body budget. While it’s important to look after children and interact, it is equally as important to give them space and not coddle them so that they can learn to regulate their emotions on their own. We know the importance of caregiving because in the 1960s the communist gvmt of Romania outlawed contraceptives and abortions, as a consequence many children were sent to orphanages. These children went ignored with no interactions other than receiving the basic necessities of food and water. The children grew up intellectually impaired. They had issues with language and problem solving. They had issues focusing and controlling emotions. Additionally their growth was stunted because they never learned to body budget. Their brains are smaller than average with less connections.
Lesson 4: Your brain predicts almost everything you do. Your eyes are not a camera, the brain can distort the image to protect you.
Lesson 5: Your brain secretly works with other brains. Being in a relationship which is caring and loving has been proven to help boost immune systems and foster healthier bodies which heal faster. We get sick and die earlier when we are lonely though. Stress can eat away at the brain and cause many illnesses. Also when you're stressed your body cannot process things as well. Healthy fats are, for example, metabolized the same as unhealthy fats. Other people can lower your stress though just by being around you.
Lesson 6: brains make more than one kind of mind. You can modify your mind by moving to another culture, trying new things, or taking chemicals.
Lesson 7: Our brains create their own reality. The world is just a construct we made up.

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