Emotional brain function

The rational part of the brain only uses 10% of it, while the emotional part uses the remaining 90%, it is essential to the education of the emotions.

During the nineties of the last century, neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux demonstrated the dominance of the emotional brain on the rational brain in certain situations.

According to the neurologist Antonio Damasio, when the brain makes decisions in order to regulate emotional balance that affects the whole body. Therefore, it is essential to educate the emotional brain to learn to control their instincts and emotions using his intelligence.

The emotional part of the brain
Scientists put the control of emotions in the limbic system, so we call this structure "the emotional part of the brain." This system consists of three basic elements with specific functions:

- The thalamus: sending messages to sensory cerebral neocortex (the neocortex is considered the thinking part of the brain);

- Hippocampus: which is believed to play an important role in memory and the interpretation of what we perceive, and

- The amygdala, which is the emotional control center.

The limbic system as a whole is present in both cerebral hemispheres and regulates emotions and impulses that we experience.