which is released during stressful periods to regulate metabolism, control blood pressure, and as…

which is released during stressful periods to regulate metabolism, control blood pressure, and assist with memory formulation. This gut brain is also responsible for processing information during sleep. 70 percent of serotonin — the neurotransmitter responsible for relaying signals across the brain to help you think clearer — is produced in the gut.

Key Parts of Your Brain:

Cortex—sets goals, makes plans, directs action;shapes emotions, in part by guiding and sometimes inhibiting thelimbic system

Insula—senses the internal state of your body, including gut feelings;helps you be empathic; located on the inside of the temporal lobes oneach side of your head.

Thalamus—the major relay station for sensory information.

Brain stem—houses many of the control centres including regulation of heart rate, breathing, sleeping, and eating. It also plays a role in conduction. All information relayed from the body to the cerebrum and cerebellum and vice versa must traverse the brainstem.

Corpus callosum—passes information between the two hemispheresof the brain.

Cerebellum—regulates movement.

Limbic system—central to emotion and motivation; includes thebasal ganglia, hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and pituitarygland.

Basal ganglia—involved with rewards, stimulation seeking, andmovement; “ganglia” are masses of tissue.

Hippocampus—forms new memories; detects threats.

Amygdala—play a key role in the processsing of emotions