Chapter 3 - The First And Second Dart Flashcards
What are second darts?
They are the ones we throw ourselves continually afterwards.
What is the truth about most second darts?
They are thrown at ourselves by ourselves when there are in fact no inherent actual first darts that have hit us.
How does suffering make its way through your body?
SNS & Hypothalamic Padrenal systems of suffering
What neurological functions does your brain go through in an imagined negative event and how is this different from an actual one?
Thalamus sends wake up signal to the brain stem.
Norepinephrine is released.
SNS sends signals to your major muscles and organs.
Hypothalamus prompts the pituitary gland to get the adrenal glands to release epinephrine and cortisol.
What does the prefrontal cortex do?
Goals
Plans
Directs Action
What does the Anterior Frontal Cingulate Cortex do? ACC
Steadies Attention
Integrates thinking and feeling
What does the Insula do?
Senses the internal state of your body
Helps you be emphatic
What does the Thalamus do?
Major relay station of the brain for sensory information.
What does the Brain Stem do?
Sends neuro modulators to the rest of the brain
What does the Corpus collosum do?
Sends information between the two hemispheres of the Brain.
What does the Cerebellum do?
Regulates movement
What does the limbic system do?
Regulates emotion and motivation.
Includes vasoganglia, hypocampus, imigdula hypothalamus, pituitary gland
What does the vasoganglia do?
Involved with rewards
What does the hypocampus do?
Forms new memories and detects threats
Imigdula do?
Alarm bell. Responds to particularly stimulating stimuli
