Psychobiology of Emotion Flashcards
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Emotion is:
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Brief, evoked, valenced responses to external or internal event
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Examples of Emotion
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Anger, sadness, joy, fear, shame, elation, pride
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Mood
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Diffuse affect state
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Examples of Mood
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Cheerful, gloomy, irritable, longer duration - listless
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Interpersonal Stance
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Colouring of interaction with others, situational
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Examples of Interpersonal Stance
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Cold, distance, warm, supportive, contemptuous
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Attitudes
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Enduring coloured belief / predispositions to others/objects
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Examples of Attitudes
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Liking, loving, hating, desiring
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Personality Traits
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Behavioural style and tendencies, individualised, stable
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Examples of Personality Traits
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Nervous, hostile, reckless
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Definition of Emotion
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Emotions are transient events, produced in response to external or internal events of significance to the individual, characterised by attention to the evoking stimulus & changes In physiological arousal, motor behaviour and feelings and engender a biasing of behaviour
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Emotion triad
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- Physiological responses - A readiness to act in specific ways - Feelings
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Alexithymia is…
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a personality characteristic in which the individual is unable to identify and describe their emotions.
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Anhedonia is…
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the inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities.
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Disorders of empathy typically refer to
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Psychopathy and autism
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Empathy is the
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ability to share and understand the emotional experiences of other people
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Emotional Instability presents with a …
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changeable mood (one cannot maintain consistency with emotions or control emotional experiences)
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Emotional lability is characterised by …
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sudden changes in emotion and behaviors of inappropriately high intensity that may include sudden bouts of anger, dysphoria, sadness, or euphoria.
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Hypomania is a state of …
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enhanced activation and arousal associated with typically a sense of physiological and psychological well-being.
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Hypomania vs Mania - Which is milder?
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Hypomania
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When hypomania is associated with psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions, typically of grandeur, this becomes
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Mania
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A grandeur delusion is …
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the false belief in one’s own superiority, greatness, or intelligence.
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Mania is the more …
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severe form that lasts for a longer period (a week or more)
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Panic describes the …
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Occurrence of panic attacks where you get heightened physiological arousal and the sense that you are going to die
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Anxiety is .... intense than panic
less
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Free-floating anxiety
no particular triggers or definable origin
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Specific anxiety
very specific to particular context or worries
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Rumination and worry are forms of
perseverative cognition
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Perseverative cognition is a collective term in psychology for ...
continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future
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Rumination describes thoughts that ...
repeat about things that have occurred in the past
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Rumination is more associated with ...
depression
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Worry is more associated with ...
anxiety
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Worry describes thoughts that are
associated with the future
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Functions of emotion include: (5 things)
- regulation of health (homeostasis, allostasis) - protection (defensive, immune) - communication (social) - attachment and affiliation - reinforcement, learning, memory
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Operant learning & Pavlovian conditioning
Neutral stimulus + reinforcer -\> motivational cue
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James-Lange emotion theory suggests that
emotions occur as a result of physiological reactions to events (your emotional reaction depends on your interpretation of the physical response)
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Hippocratic doctors were very keen on the fact that all thoughts, feelings, emotions were based in ...
the brain
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Aristotle felt that all emotions and thoughts must have a tight coupling in the
heart
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Aristotle and plato talked of passion as an opposite of
reason
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Descartes/ Spinoza - emotion from
evaluation of events with bodily expression
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Darwin - 1872 - proposed that all emotions ...
share the same evolutionary origins across mammalian species
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Darwin - origin of emotion
defensive and consummatory reflexes - redundancy, communicative
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James-Lange example of emotion
- arousal (snake) - heart pounds, sweating - fear (emotion) fear as a result of the physiological response
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Somatic marker theory linked to brain damage of the
ventral and medial parts of the frontal lobe - people fail to generate bodily arousal responses to particular types of stimuli - fail to make right decision - put themselves at risk - behave abnormally
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Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
feel same emotion whether heart is beating fast or slow, process emotional value of stimulus independently of what is going on in your body
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Cannon-Bard came up with the
fight or flight response as a sympathetic response to stimuli but saw it as being independent of the emotional feelings engendered by a stimulus
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dimensional models of emotion incorporate
valence and arousal or intensity dimensions.
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Dimensional models of emotion suggest that a
common and interconnected neurophysiological system is responsible for all affective states
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Duffy was one of the main proponents of the ... theory of emotion
activation
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Paul Ekman identified ... basic emotions:
SIX - anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise
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Jaak Panksepp put the forth the notion of basic ...
emotional circuitry
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Jaak Panksepps idea came from observations in
rodents
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Jaak Panksepps 7 circuits/systems for 'primal emotions'
Seeking Fear Rage Lust Care Panic Play
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seeking emotion related to
wanting and reward
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fear and panic circuits are related to
threat processing
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Summary of theories of emotion (James Lange, Walter Cannon, Schachter and Singer,
JL - emotional feeling states originate in automatic changes in the body WC - what goes on in the brain is separated from what goes on in the body (experience same emotion for different body states) S&S - 2-stage model of emotion
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Schachter and Singer - Constructionist 2-stage experiment
1962 injected with either saline or adrenaline - physiological arousal - room with someone pretending to be angry or very positive - those in the angry person came out feeling angry, those with positive came out feeling positive
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2 stage model
arousal response interpret the arousal response to produce emotion
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Lisa Barrett - Constructionist 2-stage - put forward the idea that emotional states ...
are not differentiated enough on their own to show any evidence of discrete emotional types
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Signals from each of the internal bodily organs travel up either
the spinal root - tracking back along sympathetic nerve fibres OR back up the vagus nerve and other cranial nerve to the brainstem
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autonomic outputs follow the
vagus nerve and follow the sympathetics and parasympathetics of the sacrum - control the internal state of arousal of the body
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within the brainstem there are a number of
neuromodulatory nuclei
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neuromodulatory nuclei project both up into the ...
forebrain via the midbrain and down the spinal cord
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neuromodulatory nuclei project down the spinal cord to gate things like
pain control and physiological arousal through the sympathetics via noradrenaline system
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as neuromodulators project into the forebrain and areas such as amygdala and hippocampus , they control aspects of functioning that regulate
mood, arousal, attention and reward-seeking behaviour
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hypothalamus is involved in the regulation of
emotional states and physiological states
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Stimulation studies in animals of hypothalamus - Cannon-Bard, Ranson, Hess - If you stimulate particular regions of the hypothalamus ...
you can induce emotional type behaviours
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stimulation studies in animals - example in cats?
stimulate rage attacks in cats (electrical stimulation of lateral hypothalamus)
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hypothalamus is connected to what centres?
neuroendocrine, autonomic and cortices
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hypothalamus mediates a lot of what behaviours?
motivational behaviours (low-level, homeostatic emotions)
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within the midbrain, there is a projection from the ... to the ... striatum
midbrain ventral striatum
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main component of the ventral striatum
nucleus accumbens
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nucleus accumbent receives a ... projection from the ... ... ... in the midbrain
dopamine ventral tegmental area
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nucleus accumbens is situated between the ... and ...
putamen, caudate
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dopamine pathway is part of the ... system of the brain
reward
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mesolimbic pathway (reward pathway) connects the ... in the midbrain to the ...
ventral tegmental area to the ventral striatum (nucleus accumbens) of the basal ganglia in the forebrain
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where is the nucleus accumbens?
basal ganglia in the forebrain
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if you stimulate the mesolimbic pathway, it will stimulate the
nucleus accumbens
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mesolimbic pathway is implicated in not only natural rewards, but also is seen as being hijacked by ... such as ...
drugs nicotine, alcohol etc
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mesolimbic dopaminergic system is predominantly a mono.... system
monoamine
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cocaine and amphetamines ... the mesolimbic dopaminergic system the most
activate
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Brain stimulation reward (BSR) is a pleasurable phenomenon elicited via direct stimulation of specific brain regions, originally discovered by ... and ...
James Olds and Peter Milner.
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Reward prediction errors consist of the differences between ... and ... rewards.
received, predicted
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the limbic system is a term that has traditionally been used to describe
brain areas supporting emotion
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anatomy of the limbic system - traditionally...
rhinencephalon
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the amygdala is the ... centre of the brain
emotion
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history of the limbic system (3 people)
Broca, Papez, Maclean
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Functions of the limbic system
emotion, motivation, reward, bias, learning, memory, encoding, recall, recognition, survival
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pathology of the limbic system (neuropsychiatry) including disorders such as
neurosis, psychosis, epilepsy, behavioural disorders, dementia
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anatomy of the limbic system - what is considered to be part of it?
cingulate, fornix, hippocampal complex, amygdala, mammillary bodies, hypothalamus also paralimbic cortices (such as orbitofrontal cortex and insula)
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hippocampus is involved in ....
memory
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the limbic system is involved in social and emotional behaviour, what anatomical parts are involved? (4)
amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, Anterior cingulate cortex, insula
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limbic system - reward system
mesolimbic dopaminergic system
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neuromodulators of limbic system
noradrenaline, acetylcholine, 5HT, dopamine
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amygdala is involved mainly in what reactions?
fear
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amygdala and fear - shock or loud noise + what?
angry face
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Joe Ledoux - views fear reaction as not being
emotional
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reactions of the amygdala to threat can occur without
full processing (not fully conscious thought)
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Insular cortex is located between what lobes?
frontal lobe and temporal lobe
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the insular cortex is seen as being a ... cortex
viscerosensory
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anterior insula cortex supports integration of
internal and external information
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feeling states that accompany emotions are thus mapped in the
insular cortex
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anterior insula cortex allow physiological sensations to reach
conscious awareness
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feeling states such as disgust or anxiety are associated with activation of
anterior insular cortex
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ventromedial prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex processes emotions such as ... by weighing up ... ... values
regret relative reward
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anterior cingulate is the region that spans round the
corpus callosum
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ventromedial prefrontal cortex is particularly implicated in
depression
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anterior cingulate involved in
stress, emotional arousal, cognitive control
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Paul Ekman came up with the FACS system which is widely used for emotion recognition, what does this stand for?
facial action coding system
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facial musculature is complex but set up for facial
expression
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facial feedback theory - if you rate a cartoon with a pen in your teeth rather than your lips, tend to find it
funnier
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in imaging experiments - when you put on a particular facial expression, you get associated
activation of emotional brain regions
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pupil size is an influence from how we process the expression of
sadness
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perceive small pupils on sad face as more
negative/intense
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bodily expression - what is observed
posture and movement
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patterning of emotional feelings across the body, CVS region? what emotions
anger, fear, happiness
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high heart rate = one of three emotions
anger, sadness or fear
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skin temperature (high) = what emotion
anger
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skin temperature (low) = what emotions
sadness and fear
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low heart rate = one of three emotions
happy, disgust, surprise
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depression is the ..., with the loss of ..., typically associated with ...
persistence of sadness or low mood interest and pleasure fatigue and low energy
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depression symptoms occur ...
most days, most of the time, at least 2 weeks
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other symptoms associated with depression
disturbed sleep poor concentration or indecisiveness low self-confidence poor or increased appetite suicidal thoughts or acts agitation or slowing of movements guilt or self-blame
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in depression functional imaging studies there tends to be increased abnormal activity in the region of ... extending into
subgenual cingulate cortex ventromedial prefrontal cortex
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anxiety states are often associated with the enhanced ... versus ... arousal
sympathetic versus parasympathetic
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anxiety conditions include:
PTSD Panic Specific phobia Generalised anxiety Social anxiety disorder OCD
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Bipolar disorder describes a
cyclical mood disorder where episodes of depression and elation or hypomania occur
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hypomania is associated with
impulsivity sleep disturbance, increased energy, grandiosity, hyper sexuality, irritability, pressure of speech
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if delusions and hallucinations occur in the context of hypomania, it is called
mania
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brain systems involved in bipolar disorder
orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, ventral striatum and to some extent the cingulate cortex
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autism refers to a ...
euro-developmental set of conditions which form a spectrum from normality
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typically autism involves triad of impairments which affect
social and emotional communication
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autism is associated with
narrow or restricted interests and behaviours, including behaviours that systematise
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sensory hypersensitivity (more or less sensitive to particular stimuli) is also a key part of
autism
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there is also an increased prevalence of what in autism?
physical symptoms
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negative emotions, particularly ... are important triggers preceding vascular event that occurs
anger
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World Cup football - myocardial infarction presentations to casualty
increasing presentations
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emotional events, directly or indirectly, can be triggers of
cardiovascular events
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immuno-psychiatry is a discipline that studies the connection between the
brain and the immune system
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sickness behaviours (stereotyped behavioural changes) include
anorexia, nausea, apathy, anhedonia, low mood, fatigue, social withdrawal, anxiety, irritability, poor concentration, memory impairment, psychomotor slowing
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adaptive behaviour to sickness means the
whole-organism responds to infection
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inflammation experiments - healthy individuals to injections of typhoid injection - induce an inflammatory state what happens to mood? and what changes in the brain?
worsening mood accompanied with changes in subgenual cingulate implicated in depression
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summary:
evolutionary imperative to emotions definitions and controversies Brain systems - brainstem to cortex relevance to psychological health and psychiatry relevance to physical health and illness
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link between specific collagen conditions, for example double jointed and vulnerability to conditions such as
anxiety and ADHD and inflammation and chronic fatigue syndrome
