25/04/2025
INVERSIONS!
Some people love them and some people don't! They activate multiple brain regions involved in motor coordination, spatial orientation, cognitive control, and emotional regulation. The cerebellum and vestibular nuclei coordinate balance and interpret signals from the inner ear to stabilise posture. In the posterior parietal cortex, integration of sensory input helps to maintain spatial awareness and body positioning while the prefrontal cortex supports focus and top down regulation of our emotional responses, modulating activity in the amygdala and the insula, which processes fear and internal body states. The effort and errors we make are monitored by the anterior cingulate cortex while the nucleus accumbens reinforces motivation through dopaminergic reward signalling.
In laypersons terms Your brain works in an incredibly coordinated fashion to help you stay calm and focused while balancing up side down.
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