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296. Neuroscience Meets Psychology | Dr. Andrew Huberman

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Anxiety, Emotions, and the Prefrontal Cortex

  • Anxiety simplifies our behavior, making us more childlike in our responses.
  • Emotions and motivational states are simplification mechanisms, activated when we can't compute complex pathways.
  • Two-year-olds cycle through innate motivational states without centralized integration.
  • The prefrontal cortex, developing around age three, allows for modulation of emotions according to abstract goals.
  • The prefrontal cortex generates potential abstract patterns of action for assessment before implementation.
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