Andrew Huberman· PhD
So trauma impacts, it impacts the whole brain, but trauma impacts the limbic system. It creates strong negative emotion that then stays with us regardless of time. It doesn't care about time.
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So trauma impacts, it impacts the whole brain, but trauma impacts the limbic system. It creates strong negative emotion that then stays with us regardless of time. It doesn't care about time.
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these emotion systems that that pay very strong attention, right, to negative things, to to to negative emotions, you know, fear and loss and terror and despair inside of us. They don't know the clock or the calendar, so they're going to bring to our present, right, things from our past that that are then markers of saying, "Go dig there because that is not just in the past. Emotionally, it is still in your present."