One of the things I'm still cogitating about since speaking with Jaak Panksepp, is the interesting phenomenon of the Periaquaductal Gray structure in the midbrain. It surrounds the aquaduct, but it also is a central integrating pathway for adjacent circuits, including emotional circuits. It is a basis of coherence in the brain. When it is ablated in animals, there is no one home. It may be the seat of consciousness.
For EMDR practitioners, it is very interesting to note that very near to the PAG are the optical pathways, then the auditory, and then the tactile. Is it possible that these sensory inputs and emotional inputs all integrate here in EMDR? A curious question.
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