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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And then a little brain, a little medulla, will form at the top of that tissue.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And then now that brain controls and streamlines information processing to the rest of the system.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And then we add a pons.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

It's just a structure of cells.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

So this is the medulla.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

We would have spinal cord there.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And this is the pons.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

We call that the pons.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

Yeah, it's a smaller brain.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And in relationship to that pons is this cerebellum.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And the cerebellum has this gorgeous cell in it called the Purkinje cell.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And they're like a hand.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

They're like, you know, two-dimensional.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And they all line up like this.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And then fibers run through those tubes.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

And it's part of the mechanism of timing so that you have fluidity of movement because of the way those cells are aligned.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

So not all cells are created equal and not all cells look alike.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

Cells have the right shape for the right job.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

So as then we grow and now we have the mammalian brain, we're going to have the hippocampus, you've heard of that, for learning and memory, the amygdala, you've heard that, for am I safe,

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!

Are you safe?

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