Mind Your Brain

Explore the triune brain, including the brain stem, emotional brain, and frontal prefrontal cortex, and learn how these interconnected parts influence fears, desires, and intellect.

Explore the reptilian brain, the oldest brain region that drives about 90 percent of decisions and often generates negative thoughts, encouraging awareness of your thoughts.

Explore how the brain stem powers wakefulness and breathing, and how the reptilian brain drives instinctive needs and fear. Learn how startle and freeze reflexes shape survival.

Explore the reptilian brain at the base of the brain, driving survival through desire and impulsive decisions, shared with reptiles, lizards, birds, and fish, with no emotions.

Explore how the hippocampus and amygdala form emotional memories and fear responses, and how the frontal cortex can regulate these reactions to steer behavior.

Fear triggers fight or flight, releasing histamine, cortisol, and nor epinephrine, affecting the frontal cortex. Stay calm, access critical thinking, and tap your higher mind for guidance.

Identify the lizard brain as the amygdala and its fear-driven sabotage; fight it by embracing bad ideas, avoiding a plan B, taking opposite actions, embracing failure, and shipping on time.

Explore how the brain stem regulates messages to the body and essential functions like breathing, heart rate, and consciousness, and examine the reptilian brain and subconscious ego with fight-or-flight.

Explore the three brains, including the reptilian brain, reprogram your mind to respond rather than react, and align impulses with your higher brain to build the life of your dreams.

Explore how the McMillion second brain links to many brain structures, detailing its emotional brain functions and practical applications for daily life.

Trace the evolution of the first brain, the oldest brain region from the Triassic period, over 200 million years ago, known as the brain stem, lizard brain, or archer pallium.

Uncover what the brain asks and bases itself on. Learn a fact about imagination and how memories are stored, and reflect on how this could change how you see yourself.

Explore how the limbic system vigilantly monitors for danger and guides the reptilian brain through fears and desires, while shielding the brain stem like a mother to the reptilian brain.

The brain cannot distinguish real from imagined actions, so imagining practice activates the same motor responses and helps you pursue the life you want and dream big.

Recognize the reptilian brain's role in impulsive actions driven by fear and desire. Propel rash purchases, capricious speech, and toilet paper stockpiling amid marketing during Colvard 19.

Explore each category of the limbic system, examining how learning, integration, memory, behavioral intellect, and control contribute to overlapping brain circuits.

The limbic system forms episodic memories by linking facts with emotions and somatic markers, guiding fear learning and driving task completion.

Explore how the cingulate gyrus and limbic system shape emotions and aggression through gestures like clenching fists, and learn to override autopilot reactions to gain control over reptilian brain urges.

Identify which sense relates to memory, consider who you share this brain with, especially for teens, and evaluate whether memories are accurate.

Explore how the limbic system governs feelings and how animals share this brain with humans. Observe face recognition and imprinting in animals, aided by senses like smell, sight, and sound.

Reconstructing memories, your brain fills in gaps based on current feelings, beliefs, and past experiences, altering recall each time you revisit it.

Explore how the hippocampus derives its name from Greek mythology and resembles a seahorse, and how it encodes short-term memory into long-term memory while being affected by Alzheimer's disease.

Explore the limbic system, the middle brain governing emotions, impulses, and motor learning. Stores short-term memories, consolidates them into long-term memories, and responds to senses and the reptilian brain's fears.

Explore how the brain supports decision making and intellect via the frontal cortex. Examine how instincts, emotions, and the cerebral cortex, the brain's largest and most recent addition, shape behavior.

Explore the functions of the prefrontal cortex, the center of complex cognition, decision making, and personality expression. See how awareness, thinking, planning, and attention guide actions.

Decisions draw on cognitive content, past experiences, and memories, guided by core values and beliefs, while the frontal cortex weighs alternatives, predicts outcomes, and suppresses urges for socially acceptable choices.

Explore what the brain asks and the higher brain drive, learn the process for success, and distinguish reacting from responding as you consider who you share this brain with.

The brain asks what can I learn from this, drawing on reptilian and emotional brain inputs to consolidate information and identify learning opportunities.

Explore how the prefrontal cortex sets humans apart among primates, with the largest cerebral cortex enabling advanced planning, decision making, complex social interactions, and reasoning.

Explore the brain's functional areas, contralateral control, and the dynamics of right and left hemispheres while examining dominance, fear and desire circuits, and key studies.

Identify the three main functional areas of the cortex: sensory regions for processing the five senses, motor regions for voluntary movements, and association regions for intellect, perception, and memory.

Explore contralateral control: left hemisphere governs the right body side. Severing the corpus callosum leaves each side unaware; the right hemisphere governs the left, with opposite visual fields.

Dominant side myths dissolve as MRI research shows the brain's highly integrated, bilateral functions; both logic and creativity emerge from unified brain circuits, even after hemisphere damage.