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Implications for Mental Health and Coping Strategies | OxJournal oxjournal.org Aug 12, 2024 3 facts
claimProlonged exposure to cyberbullying acts as a source of toxic stress that can increase the size of the limbic system while decreasing the size and impairing the functioning of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.
claimToxic stress causes the limbic system, which serves as a fear center in the brain, to increase significantly in size.
claimToxic stress causes the fear centers of the brain, such as the limbic system, to increase significantly in size, which can lead to symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimEffective self-regulation prevents long-term adverse effects such as immunosuppression, cardiovascular dysfunction, abdominal fat accumulation, bone mineral loss, reproductive impairments, decreased neurogenesis, and neuronal cell death in the limbic system (citing Jameison and Dinan, 2001; Sapolsky, 2003; McEwen, 2008).
referenceRobert M. Sapolsky published 'Stress and plasticity in the limbic system' in Neurochemical Research in 2003 (Volume 28, pages 1735–1742).
The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences - Frontiers frontiersin.org Sep 27, 2017 2 facts
claimErnandes proposes that innate operators are based in the R-complex and limbic system, rather than solely in the frontal cortex, as these systems are widely distributed in reptiles and mammals.
referenceThe Default Mode Network primarily involves connections among the thalamus, posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), and areas of the limbic system (parahippocampal cortex and the hippocampus) that function as a network for information routing and integration, as described by Buckner et al. (2008).
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimThe degradation of the brain's ability to impose habitual organization during psychedelic states involves a temporal disabling of the Default Mode Network (DMN), which decreases top-down inhibition and liberates bottom-up information flow from sources like the limbic system.
Stress, Lifestyle, and Health - Maricopa Open Digital Press open.maricopa.edu 1 fact
claimThe HPA axis (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) is a set of structures found in both the limbic system (hypothalamus) and the endocrine system (pituitary gland and adrenal glands) that regulate many of the body’s physiological reactions to stress through the release of hormones.
The Effects of Attachment and Trauma on Parenting and Children's ... rsisinternational.org Aug 16, 2025 1 fact
claimMindfulness enhances connections between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, which suggests an improvement in executive functioning and emotion regulation.