Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 928: Research Zone (4)

Translator: CKtalon 

“Insula: Receive information about the body’s physiological state and then generate subjective experiences. For example, using hunger to drive people to eat, or driving people to get more cigarettes and cocaine.

“The insula receives signals from visceral and skin receptors, including heat and cold, itchiness, pain, taste, hunger, thirst, muscle pain, visceral sensations, and air sensations…

“The insula is pertinent when processing events that haven’t happened. When you decide to go out in cold weather, your body is prepared before you are exposed to the cold weather. For example, raising your blood pressure to enhance your metabolism. This is the role of your insula.

“Suppression of insula activity must be done with extreme caution, because people might lose interest in sex, food, and work after losing their cravings for smoking, drinking, and consuming drugs…”

“Striatum: Affects muscle tone, and is also associated with one’s attention, mental state, and thoughts to a certain extent. It can lead to chorea and tremor paralysis, increased muscle tension, bradykinesia, delirium, mania, and pseudobulbar affect…”

“Amygdala: The brain tissue that produces, recognizes, and regulates emotions.

“Child autism also seems to be related to an enlarged amygdala. When stimulating a conscious animal’s amygdala, the animal will appear confused, anxious, terrified, and show signs of flinching, anger, or aggression.

“Stimulating the head end of the amygdala induces evasion and fear, and stimulating the tail end of the amygdala induces defensive and offensive responses. From this, it can be seen that one of the amygdala’s main functions is to generate appropriate emotions according to the various external information that enters the brain’s neocortex.

“Humans with their amygdala on both sides destroyed lack the ability to recognize and react to fear.

“One of the functions of the amygdala is to deal with facial muscles and expressions. When a person faces a face, the amygdala will scan them to determine if they are friendly or hostile to determine whether to face the person or avoid them.

“The amygdala is also an autonomic center. It can regulate the body’s respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal tracts, especially, the autonomic responses that are accompanied by emotional stimuli that are directly regulated by the amygdala. It also participates in regulating the body’s sexual activity and food intake, as well as the role of the hypothalamus. It thereby participates in controlling and regulating the secretion of pituitary hormones and the regulation of the neuroendocrine system’s functions…”

“Claustrum: A switch for suspected consciousness. When the claustrum is stimulated by high frequency, the patient will be discovered to be unconscious. This means that he can’t respond to external commands, his eyes will be blank, and his breathing will slow down. Once the high-frequency stimulation of the claustrum stops, the patient will regain consciousness, completely unaware of what had just happened…”

“White matter: Tripolar disorders that can cause hemiparesis, hemiphonia, and hemisensory loss…”

“Thalamus: It’s the core organ that produces consciousness and synthesizes thalamic sense.

“Although the thalamus can synthesize thalamic sense to produce consciousness, the thalamus isn’t a place where consciousness is active, nor does consciousness exist in the thalamus. Thalamic sense can make the brain produce consciousness regarding things. This refers to ‘knowing’ and ‘understanding.’ In clinical studies, damage or lesions in the thalamus will result in impairment or a loss of consciousness.

“The thalamus is also responsible for the relay of sensation and motion control. It’s worth mentioning that among all the sensory information, only olfactory information is directly transmitted to the cerebral cortex without passing through the nuclei on the thalamus…”

“Hypothalamus: maintains bodily homeostasis, controls the autonomic nervous system, emotions, etc.

“Apart from the function of sample analysis and output, the hypothalamus also has the function of secreting hormones.

“The hypothalamus analyzes and produces sensory samples and activates the anterior thalamic nucleus to synthesize thalamic sense, generate feelings, produce preferences, hobbies, biases, desires, aesthetics, motivation, pleasure, fear, excitement, depression, and so on toward people and things…”

“Cerebellum: Coordinates the movements of the skeletal muscles, maintains and regulates muscle tension, maintains the balance of the body…”

“Brainstem: There are many important nerve centers in the brainstem, including the cardiovascular motor center, respiratory center, swallowing center, as well as reflex centers like vision, hearing, and balance…”

After quickly scanning the post-it notes that were related to various parts of the human brain, Jiang Baimian’s expression under the visor changed a few times.

She gritted her teeth and said, “There’s no Kalendaria’s body of descent at all! That’s not the case at all! Back then, the Eighth Research Institute didn’t study Awakening but the secrets of the human brain!”

At this point, she was suddenly shocked. “Not good! If we follow our previous guesses, Hey will make a mistake in his judgment. I have to warn him immediately!”