{"id":200043,"date":"2024-11-23T21:38:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T03:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/overthinking-what-you-said-its-your-lizard-brain-talking-to-newer-advanced-parts-of-your-brain"},"modified":"2024-11-23T21:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T03:38:41","slug":"overthinking-what-you-said-its-your-lizard-brain-talking-to-newer-advanced-parts-of-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/overthinking-what-you-said-its-your-lizard-brain-talking-to-newer-advanced-parts-of-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"Overthinking what you said? It\u2019s your \u2018lizard brain\u2019 talking to newer, advanced parts of your brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XhABnXqYpbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all been there. Moments after leaving a party, your brain is suddenly filled with intrusive thoughts about what others were thinking. \u201cDid they think I talked too much?\u201d \u201cDid my joke offend them?\u201d \u201cWere they having a good time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a new Northwestern Medicine study, scientists sought to better understand how humans evolved to become so skilled at thinking about what\u2019s happening in other peoples\u2019 minds. The findings could have implications for one day treating <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/psychiatric+conditions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">psychiatric conditions<\/a> such as anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spend a lot of time wondering, \u2018What is that person feeling, thinking? Did I say something to upset them?\u2019\u201d said senior author Rodrigo Braga. \u201cThe parts of the brain that allow us to do this are in regions of the human brain that have expanded recently in our evolution, and that implies that it\u2019s a recently developed process. In essence, you\u2019re putting yourself in someone else\u2019s mind and making inferences about what that person is thinking when you cannot really know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all been there. Moments after leaving a party, your brain is suddenly filled with intrusive thoughts about what others were thinking. \u201cDid they think I talked too much?\u201d \u201cDid my joke offend them?\u201d \u201cWere they having a good time?\u201d In a new Northwestern Medicine study, scientists sought to better understand how humans evolved to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,23,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-humor","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}