Written By
Aditya Shukla, Cognition Today
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The heart and brain are in constant talk about emotions, fight or flight, and safety.
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The gut's mini-brain structure and the gut microbiome influence mental health, IBS, skin health, anxiety, and homeostasis.
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Over 90% of the neurochemical serotonin comes from the gut. It is the neurochemical that improves our mood.
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Hobbies like dance & music give a boost to cognitive skills like spatial reasoning + memory.
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Physical practice and repetition makes multi-tasking easy because the tasks act as "muscle memory".
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A very large part of the brain - the motor cortex - is dedicated to physical movement.
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Interoception is an in-built internal sense about the status of our body parts. Sensing pain, hunger, changes in muscle tension, etc.
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Our sense of identity is a location within (egocentric) or outside (allocentric) our body, with the body always being a reference point.
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Empathy is our simulation of someone else's body's state. Like a deep mimic. This is done by the "as-if-body-loop".
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Our decisions are influenced by our body's arousal state like hunger, thirst, and pain. But we can't figure out when or how.