Limbic system

Understanding that as a teen I was mostly being guided from an emotional place I can see why I was left so vulnerable to suffering from depression and anxiety. I began having horrible panic attacks around 14 years old. Berger (2016) explains that the limbic system the site of fear and anxiety develops before the region of planning and emotional regulation. Now as an adult I feel I have a much better handle of my anxiety and depression. I often used to wonder what changed or what happened that…

decisions involve both the head and the heart as using both logic and emotion leads to a better-rounded thinking morally and leads to less mistakes in love. Physiologically speaking, the brain is divided into two parts, the reptilian brain and the limbic brain. The reptilian brain is in charge of logical decision making and it is what keeps people alive by providing people their basic survival instincts.…

At age sixteen we tend to believe we know it all. We tend to believe that the entire world revolves around us, and that we have the world in our hands. That things will work just fine, because we say so. Now, looking back to those years made me realize how immature we were, and more crazy, through that immaturity we tend to make bad decisions. Now, at age eighteen just leaving the adolescent stage and emerging to adulthood I realized that if it were not for those bad decisions I would not be the…

dance. Since music influences people to move, does it influence other behaviors? There are plenty of genres of music and this paper will argue that the different genres of music can influence certain behaviors among the youth. “Music affects the Limbic System, the part of the brain responsible for emotions. Although it is the slowest portion of the brain to react, it is also the most powerful” (O’Sullivan). Because music affects the powerfulest part of the brain, further arguments can be made…

grades anymore due to being on her phone. Her mom took her phone away thinking maybe she will try to bring her grades up. This only made her try harder to get online. This is because of synaptic pruning in the brain, the highly active risk and reward system, and the still developing prefrontal cortex. Teens do not need more than two hours a day of screentime. Raising the recommended daily time of two hours to four hours would only make the effects worse on teens. The American Academy of…

example for me is when I’m happy I can easily remember all the good times I had in high school playing football with my friends and winning a lot of games. I have a hard time remembering the bad times and the few games we lost. A dependent memory system is context dependent memories which is when you try to go back to a specific setting or place to remember or just being in a certain place makes you remember things. An example of this in the movie is when sadness in trying to get her and Joy…

Music has been around since the beginning of time. It is everywhere you go and it will never go away. Music is a sense of communication, it provides a way to express the emotions one is feeling and it even has the ability to alter emotions and lift one 's spirits. All of the different ways music effects the lives of people today are unique and priceless. Where would the world be without music? It has been scientifically proven that if we are feeling anxious or depressed music may be able to…

sense of harmony, through making decisions that satisfy both the head and the heart. The amygdala, a key component of the emotional mind, “ is an almond shaped cluster of interconnected structures perched about the brainstem near the bottom of the limbic ring” (p14) While retaining a small structural percentage, this structure preserves a critical position - it is the “specialist for emotional matters” (Goleman, 2005, p.…

For several complex historical, philosophical and scientific reasons, Western Culture has often tried to unravel the mystery of human being within the dualistic conception of body and mind, by privileging the higher rational processes - such as language and cognition - over somatic experiences. In psychotherapy, this manifest preference influences the understanding and treatment of trauma. Since trauma is an “event inside a person’s head” (Henry, 2006, p. 383), traditional interventions target…

A person’s adolescent years are a life changing and marking time. For years, people have believed that the time of rebellion that adolescents go through is part of a mystery that all young people experience. That significant period in an adolescent’s life is called the period of storm and stress. Adolescent storm and stress is not only inevitable, but it is a time where people have to be the most understandable with their young adults. Preventing the brain from developing is something that is…