Word: tweenbrain
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Deep within the brain is a biologically ancient section called the diencephalon or tweenbrain.* Here the sensations on smell, sight, visceral activity, body position, temperature and pain pause a jiffy on their way to the thinking part of the brain. When one has a general feeling of discomfort, his tweenbrain is trying to tell his main brain an incoherent story. Vague emotions reflect the tweenbrain's mentally low-grade activities. Stomach "nervousness" must also have some relation to the diencephalon, for it to some extent controls digestion and other vegetative processes...
...liver, gall-bladder and appendix. The present tendency is to charge infections, especially of the teeth and tonsils, as the probable cause of stomach ulcers. A deeper-laid cause is, according to Dr. Cushing's suggestion, emotional stress, worry, overwork arising from the contingencies of life. These derange the tweenbrain. The tweenbrain deranges the stomach...
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