⚖️ Brain & Motivational States

Homeostasis, Rhythms & Drives

⚖️ Homeostasis - Balance System
⚖️ HOMEOSTASIS Internal Balance
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🎯 Set Point Optimal Level
↔️
📊 Feedback Monitor
↔️
⚙️ Correction Adjust
🌡️ Temperature Regulation
🥵 Too Hot
➡️
🧠 Preoptic Area Hypothalamus
➡️
💦 Sweating Vasodilation
🥶 Too Cold
➡️
🧠 Preoptic Area Hypothalamus
➡️
🥶 Shivering Vasoconstriction
⏰ Circadian Rhythms
☀️ Light Retina
➡️
SCN Master Clock
➡️
🌙 Pineal Melatonin
⬇️
🌅 Wake Cycle Active
🌡️ Temp Cycle Peak/Trough
🧪 Hormone Cycle Release
😴 Sleep Cycle Rest
🍽️ Hunger & Feeding
🛑 VMH Satiety Center
▶️ LH Hunger Center
⬇️
🍬 Glucostatic Blood Sugar
🧈 Lipostatic Body Fat
🫃 Gastric Stomach Signals
🧬 CCK Gut Peptide
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⚠️ VMH Lesion → Obesity
⚠️ LH Lesion → No Eating
💧 Thirst Regulation
💧⬇️ Dehydration Water Loss
➡️
🧠 Osmoreceptors Hypothalamus
➡️
🫘 Kidneys Renin
⬇️
🧬 Angiotensin Formed
➡️
🥤 Drink! Fluid Intake ⬆️
😴 Sleep-Wake Cycle
☀️ AWAKE RAS Active
↔️
😴 NREM Deep Sleep
↔️
💭 REM Dreams
⬇️
RAS Arousal
🌉 Pons REM Control
🧪 5-HT Sleep
NE Wake
⚠️ Eating Disorders
🍔 Obesity Excess Intake
🚫 Anorexia Self-Starvation
🔄 Bulimia Binge-Purge
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🧬 Genetic
🧪 Metabolic
🧠 Neural
💭 Psychological
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