brain stem

When, when you take a history and someone is describing all one-sided pain like this, in this case on the left side, there are different reasons why a person could have all one-sided pain.

The first one that we like to discuss is it, it could be more related to a PMRF pattern, okay? So that's when we're talking about the brainstem.

Brainstem has a left side.

Brainstem has a right side.

Typically, the more dysfunctional side or the side that's not doing its job appropriately will present with the chronic pain issues on that side.

So if this person really does have a, a PMRF pattern, we would at least guess right now with the information that we have that it's on the left side of their body because that's where they're having the chronic pain issues.

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Oh, sure.

There is a, another line of research though that I've been, that I was persuaded by, um, starting with, uh, Antonio Damasio in the '90s and going through Mark Solms more recently.

Uh, he's a South African psychiatrist and neuroscientist who's a kind of protege of Damasio's, uh, suggesting that actually consciousness doesn't begin with thought in the cortex, but with feeling in the brain stem-

Mm

... or feelings registered in the brain stem.

And the reason we have consciousness, according to this theory, is, um, because there are these homeostatic set points and, and that the...

Well, back up a little.

We often think the body, you know, 'cause we, we love the brain, you know.

We're cerebro-centric in so many ways.