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42 - Logic Doesn't Answer to a Fast Nervous System
Dr. Anthony was listening to Huberman Lab and heard a mention of research on the neurophysiology of choking under pressure. Not the gag reflex kind, the high stakes performance kind. He couldn't stop thinking about how directly it maps onto every patient sitting in your office stuck in chronic sympathetic stress.
The stress response runs on two systems, not one. There's the salience network, the fast one, amygdala and midbrain, threat detection in milliseconds, no thinking involved. And there's the executive control network, the slow one, prefrontal cortex, the part that can actually evaluate…
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