the triune (3-part) brain

🧠Did you know that there are different evolutionary layers on the human brain?

⬆️The brain is built from the bottom up. It develops level by level within every child on the mother's womb.

👨‍🔬Neuroscientist Paul MacLean  formulated the 'Triune Brain' model, which is based on the division of the human brain into 3 distinct regions:

🦎Reptilian brain/ brain-stem
basic life-sustaining systems: arousal, breathing, satiation, wake, hunger, sleep, chemical balance, heart rate, temperature, pain, balance

💛Limbic brain
"emotional / mammalian brain", responsible for emotions, perception, categorization, monitor & interpretation of danger, pleasure, visceral sensations, record memories of behaviors.

🤔Rational brain- Neocortex
planning & anticipation, emphatic understanding, sense of time & context, imagination, reflection, use of language, understanding abstract & symbolic ideas, inhibitions of inappropriate actions
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