I wonder who came up with the "We only use 10% of our brain" concept, and how they justified it. It was definitely before fMRI was developed.

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I'm wondering if the Brits really do use such different terminology in anatomy.

I've been going over brain anatomy in class recently (my girlfriend and I are currently training to be CMTs). "Lower Brain" is more commonly referred to as the Cerebellum, and it is, in fact, largely responsible for our autonomic nervous system. It also acts like as an output filter of sorts - it helps manage the nervous impulses we need to generate to move skeletal (voluntary) muscles.

I'm confused why they're calling the entire Cerebrum the "cortex." The Cortex of the brain is it's "surface" - that's what "cortex" means ("corticosteroids" are secreted by the surface tissues of our adrenal glands). Also, I've never heard of an "amigdala" before (Wasn't she Natalie Portman's character in those awful Star Wars prequels?), but the structure highlighted in the video is the Diencephalon, which houses the hypothalimus and the pituitary glands. The "emotional center" of the brain is referred to as the "Limbic center," which resides behind the frontal lobe. Reflex actions are usually handled directly by the spinal cord for things that need to happen faster than our brains will process, like kicking your leg when your doctor hits your knee with that funny rubber hammer.

Despite labelling, it seems the myth is profound and leaves too much room for pseudo-science.

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I removed this post because while it is science, it's pretty low on quality info. Notably the amygdala is misspelled "amigdala".

Also some major oversimplification going on....and the cortex bit is either too confusing or straight-up wrong.