Brain areas, activation, and chemical responses in emotion
This evolutionarily old part of the brain includes the forebrain areas surrounding the thalamus.
What is the limbic system?
The activation that occurs first in the experience of an emotion.
What are autonomic and skeletal action?
Increases attention and arousal, inhibits action, and stimulates emotions such as fear and disgust.
What is the Behavioral Inhibition System?
When the output from autonomic nervous system to the body fails.
What is pure autonomic failure?
The part(s) of the brain where emotion is experienced.
What is throughout the entire brain?
What people with BOTOX report experiencing after injections.
What are weaker than usual emotional responses?
Damage to this results in blunted emotions, impaired decision making, and impulsive decision-making without pausing to consider consequences.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The sequence of events experienced during an emotion.
What is a physiological response followed by the label we give the arousal?
Damage to this part of the brain affects the ability to recognize fear.
What is the amygdala?
The conditions under which panic attacks are interpreted as such.
What is if this bodily activation occurs spontaneously?