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emotion and the brain - Tom Johnstone Flashcards

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define emotion

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subjective experience accompanied by visceral motor and sterotypical somatic motor changes in response
- strong link with visceral motor system therefore strong assoc with preganglianic autonomic neurons in brain stem and spinal cord

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define visceral motor

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supplies and recieves stimulation from smooth and cardiac muscle and glands amking up the autonomic NS

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define stereotypical somatic motor

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supplies and recieves stimulation from skin, skeletal muscle, joints and tendons

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describe cannon and bard study into emotion in cats

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removed cortex, underlying white matter and basal ganglia in cats
found led to ‘sham rage’ - no obvious target but hissed, arched back, increase in bp, dilated pupils
sham rage not elicited when remove hypothallamus

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findings of cannon and bard emotion in cats

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cortex acts as an emotional inhibitor, regulating instinctual emotions of the thallamus - to experience the emotion not dependent on cortex but regulation of the response does
thallamus thought to be core emotional expression in the brain

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problem with cannon and bard

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cats have smaller cortex to humans - regulation may differ as many areas assoc with other process and complex range of emotions

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what is cannons overall view of emotion

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percieve stimulus - in environment which activates receptors and sends excitatory/inhibitory stimulus to cortex
LEADS TO
thallamic arousal - emotion neurons close to relay neurons in sensory pathway leading to

EMOTIONAL FEELING
AUTONOMIC RESPONSE/BODY CHANGE (ie GSR)
BEHAVIOUR CHANGE ie body language, face expression
CHANGE IN VOCAL EXPRESSION

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Why are emotions useful (nico frida)

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“action tendency” - prepare us for a rapid action to a stimulus
ie sad because fall so cry and this makes others empathise and help

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describe Hess study into cats

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electrical stimulation of hypothallamus in cats lead to rage response - bodily changes ie increased heart rate etc
hyp also link to homeostatic regulation of the body ie temp, hunger, emotion, cardiac rhythm

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describe the papez loop (1937)

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emotion occurs because of activity in circuit of basic structures - cortex and subcortical areas 
thallamus
sensory cortex
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hypothallamus
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what is the process of the papez loop

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1- incoming sensory info relayed to thall
GOES TO
- stream of thought - thall to sensory cortex to provide awareness of environment,

  • stream of movement - thall to basal ganglia involved in motor coord and planning etc
  • stream of feeling - thall to hyp which regulated emotion- hyp to hipp and thall

sensory cortex, hipp and thall to cingulate cortex before feeling

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describe papez stream of feeling

downstream

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1- downstream (bodily response)
info from hyp to brainstem and spinal cord
lead to rapid and direct change in behaviour

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decribe MaClean Truine advances of Papez loop

1- reptilian brian ‘r complex’

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stereotypical rigid behaviours in brain stem and cerebellum for survival
oldest and most primitive - behaviours are ritualistic, consisten and repetitive - dont learn from mistakes as no relay to the hippocampus

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describe the limbic system

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group of interconnecting structures in the brain between the cortex and hypothasllamus
ie cc, cingulate gyrus (attention and reward), fornix, parahippocampal gyrus

AS WELL AS

amyg (emotion/fear reg - not in papez), hipp (memory and learning), hyp (output to viscera),

disagreement about what defines the limbic system

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describe Kluver and Bucy study (1939)

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remove medial temporal lovbes of rhesus monkeys

lesions affected sig amount of limbic system - including cortical areas ie amyg and hipp

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kluver and bucy syndrome

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visual agnosia - dont recog objects or appreciate significance
hypermetamorphosis - compulsion to approach all stimuli encountered
oral tendencies - place everything in mouth
change in emotion - tame, dull, no fear
change in sexual behaviour - hyperactive and hypersexual

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describe marlowe et al 1975 kluver and bucy syndrome

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human kluver bucy patient
meningoencephalitis
cant recog ibjects, flat, restless, indifferent, ingest everything see and sexual advances to males and females (pyriform cortex)
reduced social stress - less fearful of social situations

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describe Le Doux fear conditioning in rats

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pair tone with shock leading to freezing behaviour

lesion to medial geniculate nucleas (all auditory info through MGN of thall) - still respond to stimulus even when sever all MGN connection with auditory pathway - only connect to amyg

destroy MGN and amyg - no fear response - thereofre AMYG critical in fear learning and expression of fear

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describe LeDoux ‘low road’

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imprecise rough response directly to stimulus recieved in amygdala - to thall straight to amyg
generates a rapid response even though may not completely have preocessed the stimuli

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Describe LeDoux ‘‘high road’

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More precise and slower processing of information allowing identification of stimuli and adjusting of response
thall to cortex to amyg

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LeDoux - hippocampus influence of fear conditioning

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involved in context conditioning
when remove in rats, no fear when placed in cage would usually expect to recieve a stimulus even though conditioning to stimulus in in tact

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describe Patient SM (Adolphs et al 1994)

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bilateral amygdala destruction due to urbach luiethe disease which calcifies the amygdala and cause atrophy in anterior medial temporal lobes

cant recog fear emotion in facial expressions and rating of emotional content lower than average

little expression of fear but no problem with overall concept

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describe Bechora et al 1995 patient SM study

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sm fear conditioning - no fear response but did have GSR to stimuliand accurately describe relationship between stimuli and expectation of response
+ patient with selective hipp damage present fear conditioning but not procedural recall
double dissociation: amyg in fear conditioning and response but hipp in declarative learning of fear stimuli

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emotional faces as stimuli in experiments

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when look at facial expressions they do not immediately evoke a response - however, through evolution have learnt to associate the presentation of certain expressions with expectations of what may occur ie fear face predicts dangerous stimuli

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describe johnstone et al 1995 amyg and fear faces
fmri when expose to fearful facial expressions in blocks of neutral, happy or fear bilateral amygsala activation (greater in left) o fear faces
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describe whalen et al 1998 backwards masking
fmri of amyg activation in absence of explicit expose to fearful stimuli present stimuli for very short period that dont realise seen followed by neutral face pps report only seeing neutral but increased activity in amyg to fear face - amyg respond rapidly to emotionally valent stimuli (HOW?)
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Whalen et al 2004 - amygdala indicators of fear faces
white sclera as indicator of facial expression in LeDoux low road masking paradigm of white sclera against black and inversed control sig increase in amyg activation for white sclera>black sclera
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problem with amygdala using white sclera as indicator of fear
widening of eye also used to indicate other emotions ie suprise BUT both cause increase in visual attention and indicate a change in the envionrment and that other person should adopt same emotion
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Kim et al 2004 fear and suprise interpretation in amyg
fear and suprise interpreted differently dependent on the context used ambiguous stimuli and give contextual info (positive or negative) negative suprise face increased amygdala activation but no activation to sentence alone - amyg link to PFC which proides amyg with modulatory infor pos increase vmPFC - assoc wih inhibition and emotional reg
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what is emotional regulation
involvement of intrinsic and extrinsic processes which monitor, evaluate and modify emotional reaction sincluding intensive and temporal features to accomplish goals - any process which changes the time course, intensity or duration of an emotional response
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emotional regulation processes
cognitive change ie reappraisal/reeval of situation and change of response attentional deployment habituation moderation of emotion
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regions involved in emotional regulation
verntromedial PFC amygdala dorso and ventrolateral PFC
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describe morgan, romanski and ledoux 1993 study on mPFC in rats
rats have smaller PFC therefore infralimbic PFC = vmPFC in humans (thought to involve in modulation of emotional response) lesioned mPFC in rats causing greater freezing response to CS and context stimuli in both acquisition and extinction - suggest regulates
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vmPFC in extinction
auditory fear conidtioning - pair tone with shock then test after 1 day (extinction) electrode in infralimbic cortex (vmPFC) recorded - neurons respond only in delayed (late) test of extinction not during conditioning or initial stages of extinction response of vmPFC on day 1 correlate with success of extinction on day 2 (greater activity day 1 = greater extinction day 2) GSR
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describe Milad et al 2005 vmPFC in extinction
thicker vmPFC = greater memory for extinction (less likely to have recall of fear conditioning with stimulus that is no longer percieved as dangerous) EXTINCTION IS NOT UNLEARNING BUT INHNBITION OF RESPONSE BASED ON NEW INFO
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Phelps et al 2004 amygdala activation
during acquisition of fear association - amygdala has greater response to tone shock (CS+) than tone no shock (CS-) early extinction activity flips - greater activation to no shock pair (CS-) than shock (CS+) late extinction - returns to before - CS+ > CS-
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VmPFC also called
subgenual anterior cingulate
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how is the amygdala linked to the vmPFC
strong neural fibre tract connection | inverse coupling activation in extinction of conditioned fear response
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describe urry et al 2006
told pps to focus on either less intense outcome of situation (decrease), focus on intense personalised outcome of a situation (increase) or just maintain attention to the screen amyg in regulation: response shows highest activity when increase emotional respnse and lowest when supress vmPFC in appraisal: neg corr with amyg as vmPFC increase, amyg decrease
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how is the lareral and dorsal PFC related to emotional regulation
not direct relation - not anatomically connected to amygdala but connect to vmPFC involved in elaborative cognitive thinking and goal directed behaviour communicate to vmPFC which regulates amygdala response
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james and lange view of emotion and the brain 1880s
emotion originates from perception of physiological responses to the external environment -immediate responde following bottom up stimuli
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cannon and bard 1920s | against james and lange
james and lange wrong because - arousal independent of emotion emoption rapid - arousal slow emotoins share physiological arousal tendencies
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describe papez stream of feeling | upstream
2- upstream loop (feelings) infro from hyp to cortex (and back to hyp/hippo for learning and regulation) cingulate cortex recieves info and acts as an interface between subcortical emotional reg and cortical neurons plays primary role in emotional experience proects back to hyp/hipp for learning and regulation of emotional response
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decribe MaClean Truine advances of Papez loop | 2- paleomammalian brain
limbic system provides maternal attachment and social element ie care for offspring, vocalise and play plus provides memory and learning capacity debate with as to WHAT categorises as the limbic system
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decribe MaClean Truine advances of Papez loop | 3- mammalian brain 'neocortex'
higher order mammals with neocortex have complex system for symbollic thought and language
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problem with mclean and truine reptilian brain
further research shows reptilian brain in layers thought to have small cortex and large striatum - dorsoventricular ridge in reptiles thought to be analagous to mammal striatum - involve in movement in reward DO have cortex and do not behave in purely primitive manner
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evolution of brain between reptiles and humans | mcleane and truine reptilian brain
replites and mammals have common ancestor likely that similar simpler and more primitive brain structure was once shard but both have diverged and evolved into more complex structures
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problem with maclean and truine brain model
treats brain system as hierachial deeper brain structures have greater control over cortical activity ie brain stem structures likely to interconnect and be influenced by external factors ie context
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marek et al 2013 amygdala and mPFC | maclean and truine - interconnected structures
amyg and mPFC "partners" in fear expression amyg in acquisition and expression of fear mPFC in learning and consolidaiton reciprocal synaptic connections
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rolls 2013 | limbic system definition
single limbic system is an outdated concept and should instead be represented in teirs ie what processing in cortex - represent stimuli but not reward value reward value via amyg, OFC and lPFC - assoc with learning decisions via mPFC based on value info feedforeward netork between assoc limbic structures for integrated learning and memory
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weizkrantz 1956 amydala lesion symptoms
change in tameness lack emotional response deficit in learning of acive avoidance following bilat amygdala removal
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rolls 2015 against amygdala control of emotion
amyg damage cause deficit in face processing, decision making and autonomic conditioning BUT changes in emotion not as severe in compariison to those produced following frontal cortex damage RESEARCH IS NOT FULLY SUPPORTIVE
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alvarez et al 2008 two process model of context condiitoning - hippocampus
context conditioning = encoding in hippocampus then intereaction with sirect stimuli encoding by the amyg pps view contextual conditioning paradigm ie pair situation with shock measure GSR and mri increase to shock assoc with contezt in anterior hipp, amyg, thall, anterior insula, parahipp and parietal cortices involved in context
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sin rauch and pitman 2006 | PTSD and hipp
reduced hipp vol in PTSD compared to trauma exposed and unexposed controls + hippocampal blood flow thought to have inadequate ectivation for necessary tasks
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ji and moren | PTSD and hipp
PTSD characterised by hipp dysfunction and inappropriate contextual control of expression of acquired fear response hipp supports context dependent retrieval of extinction memory - PTSD may be failure to retrieve extinction memory to exposure to context causes fear > inhibition and controlled response
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problems with using case studies
individualistic - lesions specific to the patient and may span variety of areas cant generalise and can only infer symptoms as caused by diff areas
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define cog change
reeval environmental stimuli leading to a change in beh response
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define attentional deployment
changing what play attention to in environment to alleviate current emotions
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cartensen 1995 attentional deployment
older adults preferentially deploy attention away from neg and toward positive stimuli for goal directed regulation of emotion
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define habituation
decreased response to repeatedly presetned stimuli no longer salient allow attention to be deployed elsewhere
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how is extinction used in emotional reg studies
habituate to stimuli that is assoc with conseqences remove the consequene no longer aversive so no longer respond - conditioned response to stimuli due to expected consequence not always fully extinguished and can have spontaneous recovery
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morgan and ledoux 1995 extinction and emotional reg
increased fear reactivity in rats with dmPFC lesions to both conditioned and context stimuli during acquisition and extinction d+vPFC involved in fear system but each modulated diff aspect
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morgan and ledouc 1995 paradigm
1- auditory fear conditioning - tone and shcok - freezing increase day 1 then extinction electrode in infralimbic cortex (vmPFC/dmPFC) vmPFC in delayed extinction of tone and cs not conditioning intself or early extinction - vmPFC for learning new assoc and inhibiting previous response
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explain phelps et al 2004 results
reversal of response during early extinction unexpected correlate with reduced conditioned response sugesting amyg actively coding the predictive value of the conditioned stimulus and altering response based on the availability of new info
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quirk et al 2009 extincition
damage to infralimbic cortex in rates not impair immediate extinction but impair extinction retention spontaneous recovery in second day
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milad and quick 2002 extinction
vmPFC response to tone cs only during delated extinction | stimulation of vmPFC with tone presentation despite no extinction training reduced CR
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oschner et al 2004 amyg and PFC
downreg of neg emotion = increase PFC and decrease amyg fmri in up and down reg of neg emotion by internal (personal) or external (objective) stories up+down = PFC and ACC amyg up or down dependent on goal up uniwue to rmPFC - retrieve emotional knowledge down to right lateral/OF PFC internal focus mPFC external LPFC
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miller and cohen 2001 | emotoinal reg and cog control system
PFC top down processing of beh guided by internal states/goals forntal lobe impairment show difficulty in STROOP PFC guide neuronal activity dependent on task demands

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