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placeThe part of the brain involved in detecting toxins and triggering fever, located near the ventricles.
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Essentials: Improving Health With Stronger Brain-Body Connection
So I'm guessing you probably didn't imagine that today's discussion about sensing the self would be sensing your own blood, but you do. There is a little area of your brain that's little indeed, but is very, very important called area postrema, P-O-S-T-R-E-M-A. An area postrema is an area of the brainstem that sits right next to another brain area called the chemoreceptor trigger zone.