Name: 【TEDx】The Neuroanatomical Transformation of the Teenage Brain: Jill Bolte Taylor at TEDxYouth@Indianapolis
Uploaded: 2016-01-04T09:16:39.000Z
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I am reminded that we are neurocircuitry.

We are neurocircuitry, and every ability we have

is because we have cells that perform that function.

We know more about the human brain than we've ever known before.

We've learned things in the last 10 to 20 years

neuroscientists think about this organ and our relationship with it.

When I was in school back in the 80s, we were taught

that the brain cells you were born with are the brain cells you'll die with,

and you are not going to get anymore along the way.

We do know that our brain is capable of growing some new neurons,

We are capable of growing new neurons, particularly in response to trauma.

In addition, neuroplasticity, is the ability of our brain cells

to rearrange who they are communicating with.

What this means, is that the brain you woke in with this morning,

is not identical to the brain that you are going to take home with you tonight.

In addition, we understand that we are capable of mindfulness.

the neurocircuitry we are running inside of our heads.

But on top of simply observing in our neurocircuitry,

we are capable of changing our thoughts and changing our brain.

We have the ability to pick and choose what's going on inside of our heads.

We typically run three types of neurocircuitry.

to what we are thinking and what we are feeling.

and then run a physiological response to what I am thinking.

From the moment I think of a thought that stimulates my anger circuit,

to the time that I run my physiological response

where I down noradrenalin into my blood stream,

it flashes through me and flashes out of me.

to the time when my blood is clean of that chemistry,

How many of you have the ability to stay angry

is you are rethinking the thought that is restimulating the anger circuit,

which is restimulating the physiological response,

The bottom line is, I am neurocircuitry. We are neurocircuitry.

to stimulate and trigger my circuitry without my permission.

for you to pound on and stimulate my neurocircuitry.

If I give you the power to trigger my neurocircuitry,

And if I give you my power, then I become vulnerable to you

through manipulation, through advertising, through marketing.

We are these incredible celled brain filled with these beautiful cells.

Stimulation streams in through our sensory systems.

It integrates and organizes as it passes up the spinal cord,

and it aims for the outer portion of our brain, the cerebral cortex.

The cerebral cortex is divided into two different groups of cells.

Our outer layers, for a higher cognitive thinking,

So information streams in through our sensory systems,

and it aims directly for the inner group of cells of our limbic system.

And the cells in the limbic system are asking the question, moment by moment,

I feel safe when enough of the information streaming in through the sensory systems

When the world feels familiar, my amygdala is calm,

is that as information comes in and it stimulates my limbic system,

my limbic system then sends that information

throughout my nervous system, including my higher cortex.

although many of us may think of our cells as thinking creatures who feel,

biologically, we really are feeling creatures who think.

and this becomes significant in the way we live in the external world.

Information streams in, goes straight to the amygdala;

the amygdala says how much feels familiar,

and if it feels familiar, then I feel calm.

When I feel calm, the cells right next to that, the hippocampus,

turn on and they are capable of learning and memory.

But let's say that, all of the sudden, the building starts to shake.

[If] that happens, your amygdala goes unfamiliar,

"Alert, alert, self preservation!", you bolt out the door,

shut down the hippocampus and don't care what I have to say anymore, right?

A great example about the relationship between the amygdala and the hippocampus,