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Brain in sentence

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And it starts with our brain.
There's an area of your brain you've probably heard referred to as the "reward center."
Which is like reward, so this is the opioid hotspots in your emotional brain.
Wanting is mediated by this vast dopaminergic network in and beyond the emotional brain.
My father moved to Germany, studied there and married, and as a result, I now have this half-German brain, with all the analytical thinking and that slightly dorky demeanor that come with that.
You arrive in a new city, and your brain is trying to make sense of this new place.
It's essentially this virtual map that only exists in your brain.
If you get a little baby, and you abuse it verbally, its little brain sends out chemicals that are so destructive that the little part of its brain that can tell good from bad just doesn't grow, so you might have yourself a homegrown psychotic.
If a soldier sees his friend blown up, his brain goes into such high alarm that he can't actually put the experience into words, so he just feels the horror over and over again.
How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?
I'd like to talk a little bit more about the brain, because I know you like that here at TED, so if you just give me a minute here, okay.
We started off as a teeny, teeny little one-celled amoeba, tiny, just sticking onto a rock, and now, voila, the brain.
The brain takes meaningless information and makes meaning out of it, which means we never see what's there, we never see information, we only ever see what was useful to see in the past.
Your brain cannot deal with the uncertainty of that information, and it gets ill.
Well, it'd be amazing, since we're talking about an insect with only one million brain cells.
A slide like this is not only boring, but it relies too much on the language area of our brain, and causes us to become overwhelmed.
What I and my colleagues did was put 32 people, who were madly in love, into a functional MRI brain scanner.
He became hooked on a sleeping mat, probably because of elevated activity of dopamine in his brain, just like with you and me.
The motor in the brain begins to crank, and you want this person.
So we could look at the same brain when it was in that heightened state and when it was in a resting state.
And we found activity in a lot of brain regions.
In fact, one of the most important was a brain region that becomes active when you feel the rush of cocaine.
The motor of the brain.
In over 175 societies, people have left their evidence of this powerful brain system.
I have come to think it's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
And I've also come to think that it's one of three basically different brain systems that evolved from mating and reproduction.
The second of these three brain systems is romantic love: that elation, obsession of early love.
And the third brain system is attachment: that sense of calm and security you can feel for a long-term partner.
And I think that attachment, the third brain system, evolved to enable you to tolerate this human being at least long enough to raise a child together as a team.
One of the last 10,000 years and the other, certainly of the last 25 years, that are going to have an impact on these three different brain systems: lust, romantic love and deep attachment to a partner.
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