Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live

Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live

Unravel the fascinating intricacies of the human mind as we delve into the narrative power of our brains. Discover how our cerebral storytelling shapes our existence, influences our perceptions, and ultimately, crafts the reality we inhabit.

Storytelling and Science

Science is an objective collection and interpretation of data.

Syndromes are stories in search of underlying causes

The 2013 decision by the American Psychiatric Association to remove the diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome from its guidebook for clinicians, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders (DSM-V), for failing to conform to any specific neuropathology underscores the all-too-common problem of accepting a clustering of symptoms as synonymous with a specific disease.

Unlocking Mom’s Brain

No Two Human Brains Are Alike

The Pleasurable Feeling

The pleasurable feeling that our explanation is the right one-ranging from a modest sense of familiarity to the powerful and sublime “a-ha!”-is meted out by the same reward system in the brain integral to drug, alcohol, and gambling addictions. The reward system extends from the limbic area of the brain, vital to the expression of emotion, to the prefrontal cortex, critical to executive thought.

Problem: We can get our dopamine reward, and walk away with a story in hand, before science has finished testing it

Because we are compelled to make stories, we are often compelled to take incomplete stories and run with them

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