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The Enchanted Loom reviews Robert Sapolsky's book, Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst

Mark Brady
Mark Brady

MacArthur Genius Award recipient, Robert Sapolsky provides an analysis of human behavior in depths never before attempted in neurobiology.

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The Enchanted Loom Teasing sturdy threads from neuroscience masterworks
Teasing 10 threads from Robert Sapolskys
Thread 1: You cant begin to understand things like aggression, competition, cooperation, and empathy without biology. But youre just as much up the creek if you only rely on biology (pg. 4)
Thread 2: Hot-blooded badness and warm-hearted goodness raise a key point, encapsulated in a quote from Elie Wiesel: The opposite of love is not hate its indifference. The biologies of strong love and strong hate are similar in many ways. (pg. 19)
Thread 3: There really arent centers in the brain for particular behaviors. There arent centers for feeling pissy or horny, for feeling bittersweet nostalgia, or warm protectiveness tinged with contempt. No surprise then that circuitry connecting various limbic struc- tures is immensely complex. (pg. 25)
Thread 4: Depression is fundamentally a patho- logical sense of loss of control (learned helplessness) When childhood traumas produce depression, there is overgeneral- ization:Life will always be uncon- trollably awful. (pg. 197)
Thread 5: Nearly every facet of the nuts and bolts of neurotransmitterology can be changed by experience. (pg. 694)
Thread 6: The greatest crime-fighting tool is a 30th birthday. (pg. 170)
Thread 7: People (who feel anothers pain most strongly), with the most pronounced arousal and anxiety, are actually less likely to act prosocially. (pg. 169)
Thread 8: Because it is the last (area of the brain) to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. (pg. 173)
Thread 9: Hot ideation nukes self-discipline. (pg. 186)
Thread 10: Some things that can influence grit: prenatal environment birth family socioeconomics blood glucose levels sleep quality & quantity childhood abuse dopamine D4 receptors parasite infection lead levels in tapwater glucocorticoid levels (pg. 597)
Thread 11: Some facts: the amygdala activates when seeing the face of another race; oxytocin makes us crappy to strangers; gene variants can make us antisocial; if youre poor, frontal development lags behind average; there are grounds for optimism ! (pg. 614)
Image Credits: Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans 際際滷 3 - http://fightland.vice.com/blog/womens-mma-comes-of-age 際際滷 12 - http://qbq.com/got-anger-how-anger-prevents-accountability/ 際際滷 2 - https://warosu.org/sci/thread/7172907 際際滷 6 - https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/learned-helplessness/ 際際滷 5 - https://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4685791/Misleading+animals/54 際際滷 10 - http://bit.ly/2tghpKW 際際滷 16 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans 際際滷 9 - http://www.swatantragirlsdegreecollege.com/ 際際滷 8 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/550002173222610806/ 際際滷 7 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/393642823654122527/ 際際滷 4 - https://www.theodysseyonline.com/history-of-love-and-hate 際際滷 13 - http://bit.ly/2sdYRa0 際際滷 14 - http://bit.ly/2rTY8M3
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The Enchanted Loom reviews Robert Sapolsky's book, Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst

  • 1. The Enchanted Loom Teasing sturdy threads from neuroscience masterworks
  • 2. Teasing 10 threads from Robert Sapolskys
  • 3. Thread 1: You cant begin to understand things like aggression, competition, cooperation, and empathy without biology. But youre just as much up the creek if you only rely on biology (pg. 4)
  • 4. Thread 2: Hot-blooded badness and warm-hearted goodness raise a key point, encapsulated in a quote from Elie Wiesel: The opposite of love is not hate its indifference. The biologies of strong love and strong hate are similar in many ways. (pg. 19)
  • 5. Thread 3: There really arent centers in the brain for particular behaviors. There arent centers for feeling pissy or horny, for feeling bittersweet nostalgia, or warm protectiveness tinged with contempt. No surprise then that circuitry connecting various limbic struc- tures is immensely complex. (pg. 25)
  • 6. Thread 4: Depression is fundamentally a patho- logical sense of loss of control (learned helplessness) When childhood traumas produce depression, there is overgeneral- ization:Life will always be uncon- trollably awful. (pg. 197)
  • 7. Thread 5: Nearly every facet of the nuts and bolts of neurotransmitterology can be changed by experience. (pg. 694)
  • 8. Thread 6: The greatest crime-fighting tool is a 30th birthday. (pg. 170)
  • 9. Thread 7: People (who feel anothers pain most strongly), with the most pronounced arousal and anxiety, are actually less likely to act prosocially. (pg. 169)
  • 10. Thread 8: Because it is the last (area of the brain) to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. (pg. 173)
  • 11. Thread 9: Hot ideation nukes self-discipline. (pg. 186)
  • 12. Thread 10: Some things that can influence grit: prenatal environment birth family socioeconomics blood glucose levels sleep quality & quantity childhood abuse dopamine D4 receptors parasite infection lead levels in tapwater glucocorticoid levels (pg. 597)
  • 13. Thread 11: Some facts: the amygdala activates when seeing the face of another race; oxytocin makes us crappy to strangers; gene variants can make us antisocial; if youre poor, frontal development lags behind average; there are grounds for optimism ! (pg. 614)
  • 14. Image Credits: Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans 際際滷 3 - http://fightland.vice.com/blog/womens-mma-comes-of-age 際際滷 12 - http://qbq.com/got-anger-how-anger-prevents-accountability/ 際際滷 2 - https://warosu.org/sci/thread/7172907 際際滷 6 - https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/learned-helplessness/ 際際滷 5 - https://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4685791/Misleading+animals/54 際際滷 10 - http://bit.ly/2tghpKW 際際滷 16 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans 際際滷 9 - http://www.swatantragirlsdegreecollege.com/ 際際滷 8 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/550002173222610806/ 際際滷 7 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/393642823654122527/ 際際滷 4 - https://www.theodysseyonline.com/history-of-love-and-hate 際際滷 13 - http://bit.ly/2sdYRa0 際際滷 14 - http://bit.ly/2rTY8M3
  • 15. Mark Brady, PhD TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com to Subscribe or receive the Powerpoints for Free Thank you for viewing !