13 Creepy Facts About Your Deep Mind

The deep mind, or the subconscious mind, can be manipulated in many ways. To understand this extraordinarily complex machine, one must get into its creepy and strange aspects. The deep mind…

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Amygdala is NOT the Brain’s Fear Center
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-got-mind-tell-you/201508/the-amygdala-is-not-the-brains-fear-center

The Primate Amygdala Mediates Acute Fear
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/21/6/2067

Neuron Cannibalism
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuron-cannibalism/

Starved Brain Cells Eat Themselves
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802125546.htm

Sweet and Bitter Taste in the Brain
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15763

Bringing People Back from the Dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22154552

How Long Can the Brain go Without Oxygen?
http://www.transweb.org/faq/q3.shtml

How Negative is Your “Mental Chatter”?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sapient-nature/201310/how-negative-is-your-mental-chatter

When Half a Brain is Better Than a Whole One
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-when-half-brain-better-than-whole/

Pain in the Brain
https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/pain-brain

Nociceptors: the sensors of the pain pathway
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964977/

Reconstructive Memory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/reconstructive-memory

When does Cognitive Functioning Peak?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614567339

Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO), HowlingCreations for helping to create this video!