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Emotions Flashcards

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  • the entire neuronal circuitry that controls emotional behavior and motivational drives
  • network of structures is associated with emotions, basic survival and sociosexual behavioral patterns, motivation, and learning
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limbic system

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True or False? Different Parts of the Limbic System Produce Different Emotions

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True

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What are the basic emotions?

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anger, fear, surprise, disgust, sadness and joy

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Descending pyramidal and extrapyramidal projections from motor cortex

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Volitional movement (facial expressions)

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Descending extrapyramidal projections from medial forebrain and hypothalamus

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Neural systems for emotional expression (emotional control of facial expressions)

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Anger is associated with what areas?

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periventricular

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Fear is associated with what area?

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amygdala

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Surprise is associated with what area?

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hypothalamus

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9
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Disgust is associated with what area?

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inusla

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10
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Sadness is associated with what area?

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anterior cingulate gyrus

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11
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Joy is associated with what areas?

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mesolimbic pathway nucleus accumbens

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12
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What chemicals are associated with lust?

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testosterone

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What chemicals are associated with happiness and joy?

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dopamine and endorphins

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What chemicals are associated with bonding, commitment, and empathy?

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Oxytocin

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Disorders characterized by extreme and inappropriate exaggeration of mood (or affect), thought to be due to a decreased (Depression) or increased (Mania) activity of norepinephrine and serotonin neurons.

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mood disorders

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16
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A mood disorder characterized by recurring episodes of recurring dysphoria and negative thinking that is also reflected in behavior.

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Major depression

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A mood disorder characterized by agitation, bursts of energy, and impulsiveness

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mania

18
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A mood disorder in which the patient swings back and forth between feelings of depression and mania

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bipolar disorder

19
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inability to feel pleasure

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anhedonia

20
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Deep Brain Stimulation of Area 25 (subcallosal cingulate gyrus) has been shown to help with _____

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major depression.

21
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A variety of psychological conditions dominated by excessive worry, sympathetic autonomic activity, and maladaptive behavior

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anxiety disorders

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Characterized by persistent, unwelcomed thoughts or images (obsessions), or the urgent need to engage in certain rituals (compulsions).

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obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Characterized by persistent, frightening thoughts, memories or dreams of a previously experienced terrifying event. Some feel detached or numb, easily startled, or loose interest in everyday pleasurable events.

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PTSD

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Characterized by an overwhelming level of anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations; an intense, chronic fear of being watched, and judged by others and of being embarrassed or humiliated by their own actions.

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social anxiety disorder

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Characterized by a level of anxiety that far exceeds the normal anxiety that people experience day to day. The anxiety is chronic and fills tha day with exaggerated worry and tension, even though little of nothing occurs to provoke it.

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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immobility alternating with agitation

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catatonic schizophrenia

27
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delusions of persecution

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paranoid schizophrenia

28
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silly and immature emotionality with disorganized behavior

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Hebephrenic schizophrenia

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A disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interactions, verbal and non-verbal communication, and repetitive behavior

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autism

30
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Necessary for translating judgement into emotional responses and actions.

Inhibits emotionally driven behavior

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Orbitofrontal cortex

31
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Used to relieve emotional distress

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frontal lobotomy

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