
S2E07: Your Mind on Good & Bad Sleep, with Dr. Lauren Whitehurst
Minds Matter
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The Role of the Parasympathetic Nervous System in Learning New Information
If you have a high heart rate, that likely means your sympathetic nervous system is really controlling that and over-indominating the parasympathetic nervous system. When you are learning new information, those two systems are dynamically interacting with each other. That information is going to require information from your sensory organs to be quantified by the autonomic nervous system through those two dynamic systems. So that's a short rundown into kind of what that physiology looks like and then why might that be important?
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