Cerebral Cortex

The cerebral cortex is one of the two brain areas that make up the new brain. The cerebral cortex belongs to the ectoderm germ layer, and is ontogenetically the "youngest" part of the brain.

When the psyche has an active biological conflict of separation, confrontation, boundary violation, or rejection, cerebral-cortex-controlled tissues respond by tissue ulceration (cell loss) and/or functional change.

In most cerebral-cortex-controlled tissues, functional change means functional loss. However, special biological programs in the ectoderm can take the form of "outer skin layer pattern" with a decrease of sensitivity during the conflict-active phase, or "gullet mucosa pattern," with an increase of sensitivity during the conflict-active phase.

Cerebral-cortex-controlled tissues include the sensory organs, sex organs, blood sugar controls (alpha and beta islet cells), motor function (voluntary muscle control), urinary tract, and larynx. Also belonging to this germ layer are mucosa and squamous-epithelial tissues such as the linings of the rectum, trachea, esophagus, and bronchia, and the linings of the coronary arteries and veins, small curvature of the stomach, pancreatic duct, gall duct, and liver duct.

During the healing phase after conflict resolution, ulcerated tissues will be replenished through cell proliferation, often with inflammation. Functional loss will reverse, often with hyper-function, depending on the special biological program. Oversensitivity associated with the gullet-mucosa pattern will be replaced with numbness.

The cerebral cortex has crossover and relationship awareness; sensory and motor relays on the right side of the cerebral cortex control sensory organs and voluntary muscle actions on the left side of the body and vice versa.

Cerebral-cortex-controlled tissues on the dominant side of the body respond to mother-child separation and motor conflicts and cerebral-cortex-controlled tissues on the non-dominant side of the body respond to partner-father separation and motor conflicts.

Laterality is important for cerebral-cortex-controlled tissues relaying from the temporal lobes. Left-handed men and right-handed women will relay a territory or rejection conflict through the left temporal lobe, which shifts their responses during the active phase of these special biological programs to the right temporal lobe. This causes the individual to become more masculine, irrespective of their actual sex. Right-handed men and left-handed women will relay a territory or rejection conflict through the right temporal lobe, which shifts their responses into the left temporal lobe, causing them to become less masculine, irrespective of their actual sex.

Increased masculinity is experienced as mania; decreased masculinity is experienced as depression.

If a second temporal lobe conflict begins while a rejection or territory conflict is still in the active phase, it will relay through the opposite temporal lobe.

When two temporal lobe conflicts are active in opposition to one another, it will produce a constellation with psychosis (because of the opposing compulsions of depression and mania). Temporal lobe constellations are therefore called a "schizophrenic constellations."

A majority of so-called "mental illness" and developmental disabilities are schizophrenic constellations.

If a third or subsequent temporal lobe conflict begins while both temporal lobes are already relaying active territory or rejection conflicts, for left-handers (male or female), the new conflict will relay through whichever temporal lobe has less conflict mass (less conflict activity). This causes an increase in schizophrenia with each subsequent conflict. For right-handers, the new conflict will relay through whichever temporal lobe has more conflict mass, causing an increase in depression or mania with each subsequent conflict.

During the healing phase of a schizophrenic constellation, only the mass of the first temporal load conflict before the second temporal lobe conflict began will have any healing symptoms.