Term
Limbic system
A group of deep brain regions linked to emotion. It reacts to a threat before conscious thinking switches on.
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey
Explained in
- Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey
- The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life., Robin Sharma
A group of deep brain structures linked to emotion, memory and responses to threat. The book calls it the “ancient brain”.
- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook, Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
A group of brain structures linked with emotion, memory and attachment to people.
- The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time, Alex Korb
A group of deep brain structures linked to emotion, stress and memory. For Korb, the feeling part of the brain.
- What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People, Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
A part of the brain associated with emotions. In Navarro’s model, it initiates rapid bodily reactions. Dividing the brain into “reacting” and “thinking” parts is the author’s simplified framework.
- The Whole-Brain Child, Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
the ancient parts of the brain responsible for strong feelings like fear, anger, and joy, working without input from logic