Overthinking what you said? It’s your ‘lizard brain’ talking to newer, advanced parts of your brain
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In a new Northwestern Medicine study, scientists sought to better understand how humans evolved to become so skilled at thinking about what’s happening in other peoples’ minds.
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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Wagamaga on 2024-11-23 12:16:23+00:00.

Original Title: Overthinking what you said. Research found that the more recently evolved and advanced parts of the human brain that support social interactions – called the social cognitive network – are connected to and in constant communication with an ancient part of the brain called the amygdala.