The Biochemistry of Belief 🪴
- beliefs =
- guiding principles in life that provide direction and meaning NT: providing meaning.. interesting
- preset, organized filters to our perceptions of the world
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represent what is happening
- intertwined with emotions
- a portion of sensory info determined by our beliefs —> when we change our thinking, we change our beliefs
- Placebo effect, if you believe something, brain will react as if it is true
- interpretations of our experiences can literally alter physiology
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prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus, NMDA receptor
- medial prefrontal cortex is involved in processing the belief valence
- right temporoparietal junction and precuneus involved in the processing of beliefs to moral judgment
- right temporoparietal junction processes true beliefs
- medial prefrontal cortex, superior temporal gyro, and hippocampal regions —> belief attribution
- dopamine