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The ‘Reptilian Brain’ and Post Trauma Disorder
This illustration shows specific brain functions. We know that Post Trauma Disorder takes place in the oldest part of the brain, or
the ‘Reptilian’ brain. The ‘fright and flight’ response takes place here when danger is present. Whenever there is severe trauma
this part of the brain replays the events as it they were happening in the present. Advanced drug−free technology restores
balance to the central nervous system & relieves the most severe symptoms of Post Trauma Disorder.
Frontal Lobe
Motor Cortex
Parietal Lobe
Sensory Cortex
Motor control
All motor functions:
Sensory area of
less than 3 pounds and looks
Spatial
of voluntary
pain & temp.
Voluntary muscles
like a mushroom or helmet.
awareness
muscles
Understanding
Arms and legs
There are between 100-200
Sensations,
Personality
language Ex Walking, running,
billion brain cells called gray
touch
Concentration
pressing
thoughts
handgrip,
etc.
matter.
These cells are
Organization
Occipital
Lobe
miniature information storage
Problem Visual Focus
facilities.
solving
Werneke's Area
The brain can store more
Broca's Area
Interpreting
information than all the
Motor control
Language
libraries in the world.
of speech
There are 10-15 billion nerve
Meninges
cells in 6 sub-layers called
3 layers of
white matter, which receive
membrane
and send information.
surround
Each nerve cell has 100the brain.
1,000 fibers.
They go
When fibers from difference
from thick
nerve cells meet it's called a
and tough
synapse. (See Appendix C)
to thin and
A synapse is space through
spidery
which electrical energy and
Cerebralchemicals move.
Temporal
spinal fluid
There are 20 trillion
Lobe
is clear &
synapses
firing electrical
Hearing
Blood
circulation
colorless
energypressure
and
producing
Memory of Regulates
Blood
and runs
chemicals every moment.
hearing
involuntary muscle
between
The higher the brain section
and vision
movements
two layers.
is located in the brain, the
Heart rate
It acts as
more evolved it is - about
Brain Stem Breathing rate
Elementary
Cerebellum
a shock
50,000 years old.
(Mendulla
(back brain)
forms of
absorber
Blood
circulation
The deeper the brain section
Oblongata)
Balance &
seeing and
and brings
Blood
pressure
is, the more ancient it is Links the
motor coorhearing
nutrients to
Body
temperature
about 100 million years old.
dination.
brain to the
the brain.
Hunger & thirst
In human brain, when the
spinal cord
cerebrum enlarged and grew
over the which
top of the
rest of the
dolphin,
uses
'Reptilian Brain' & Post Trauma Disorder
brain, it greatly increased the
a sonar-type mechanism to communicate.
The human brain is highly evolved, yet at the
complexity of the neural
Cerebralwhich
cortex
(topus
brain): Heavily wrinkled outer layer same time it retains the instinct–driven brain of
networks,
allows
greater
flexibilityonand
the of the cerebral hemispheres made our reptilian ancestors.
(gray matter)
surface
ability to adapt to our
of
The limbic system is part of what’s called the
environment.
neurons & synaptic connections; 6 sub-layers (white matter). ‘reptilian brain’, or the oldest part of the brain. It
Cerebral Cortex (top brain)
regulates basic emotions, drives and instincts,
Largest portion of the
brain
such as the ‘fright and flight’ response when
Deeply wrinkled outer layer
danger is present.
The human brain weighs
consisting of left & right
The central nervous system is highly vulnerable
hemispheres
Newest parts of the brain
Highest thinking functions
integrating & processing
information, planning &
organizing, decisions
All voluntary motor
functions
Touch Sound Memory
Smell Taste Sight
Reptilian, or oldest, part
of the brain
Limbic system
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‘The ‘reptilian brain’ stores and
retrieves memories of trauma
deep in the unconscious and
has relatively inflexible and
fixed responses.
Post Trauma Disorder can last
for decades and affect families
for generations.
to stress and can be severely damaged. When
this happens a condition develops called Post
Trauma Disorder (PTD).
Raw emotions and instinctual reactions create
intense anxiety,
disorders.
depression
and
sleep
This part of the brain lacks logical thought or
any
awareness
of
consequences.
Symptoms of Post Trauma Disorder can
disrupt every area of life.