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?
The main thing we pay attention to when making moral decisions.
What is how it will make us feel emotionally?
Often used as a last resort for individuals suffering from severe depression that is not managed by traditional means, this technique involves inducing a seizure in the brain to treat depression symptoms.
What is Electro-convulsive therapy?
Birds migratory patterns are governed by these.
What are endogenous circannual rhythms?
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 syndrome associated with damage to the amygdala in monkeys.
What is Kluver-Bucy Syndrome?
Bipolar I disorder is to _________________ as Bipolar II disorder is to _______________.
What is mania; hypomania?
PER and TIM proteins work by doing this.
What is increasing the activity of certain kinds of neurons in the SCN that regulate sleep and waking?
The parts of the body that are the dominant response to prolonged stressors.
What is the HPA axis?
What people with BOTOX report experiencing after injections.
What are weaker than usual emotional responses?
The alarm, resistance, and exhaustion stages.
What are the 3 stages of the General adaptation syndrome?
Weak emotion, weak speech, and decreased socialization.
What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
The hormone that increases sleepiness.
What is melatonin?
Controls the autonomic fear response.
What is the amygdala?
The sequence of events experienced during an emotion.
What is a physiological response followed by the label we give the arousal?
The ratio of testosterone to cortisol.
What is the determinant of aggressive behavior?
SSRIs block the reuptake of this neurotransmitter only.
What is serotonin?
The type of neuroimaging technique typically used in sleep studies.
What is EEG?
Have adaptive value, communicate internal states to others, and aid in quick decision making.
What are emotions?
The conditions under which panic attacks are interpreted as such.
What is if this bodily activation occurs spontaneously?
The individual variability in the response to stress.
What is resilience?
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia are particularly useful in treating these symptoms.
What are the positive sympotms?
Irregular, jagged, and low voltage waves are to _______________ as sleep spindles and K-complex waves are to _________________.
What is Stage 1; Stage2?