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Sometimes we hear references to new brain and old brain. However, that is not entirely accurate. When we refer to new brain or old brain, what we’re really talking about is how the different parts of the brain developed from an evolutionary, biological perspective. As mammals evolved over eons, the brain developed in increasing complexity from the bottom up; this means that as evolution moved forward, it progressed from the lower brain, including the upper brain stem, to the midbrain or limbic system (where the reward centers are), and finally to the latest development in our neurobiological evolution, the neocortex, or new brain.

By the way, it’s the prefrontal part of the cortex that helps inhibit the more animalistic survival drives that emerge from the more primitive limbic structures of the brain. And addiction is one of those hijacked drives piggybacked onto the limbic reward center gone awry.