Insular Damage
Researchers found that smokers with damage to the insula had a _____ time quitting smoking
What is easier?
An example of predicting one's own emotional state
What is a high heart rate being a sign of anxiety?
Amount of gyri is the anterior insular cortex is made up of
What is 3?
Number of patients in cigarette case study
Meaning of interoception
What is the ability to be aware of internal sensations in the body?
3 ways in which the insular cortex could be damaged
What are strokes, brain tumors, and traumatic brain injuries?
Three autonomic processes regulated partially by the insular cortex
What are
- heart rate?
- blood pressure?
- digestion?
-respiratory rate?
Two portions of the insular cortex
What are the anterior and posterior insular cortices?
The main cognitive response in the couples case study
What is empathy?
The meaning of anterior
What is "closer to the front"?
Affect of chronic pain on the insular cortex
What is increase in pain sensitivity?
Three emotional cues picked up by the insular cortex
What are body language, tone, and expressions?
The area of the insular cortex connecting to more emotion based structures
What is the anterior insular cortex?
The information displayed on the screen in the couples case study
What is the person receiving the shock and the level of intensity?
The insular cortex in located ____ within the brain
What is deep?
The type of tumor commonly affecting the insula
What are lower-grade gliomas
Three things taken into consideration when making a decision
What are social cues, interoception, and past experiences?
The fissure that the insular cortex is located at the bottom of
What is the silvian fissure?
Objective results of the couples case study
What is increased activity in the insular cortex in both cases?
The two types of stroke
What are ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes?
The type of stroke associated with insular damage
What is an ischemic stroke
What are predicting emotional states, social emotions, decision making, sensory processing, and self awareness?
Three parts the insular cortex is connected to
What are the neocortex, limbic cortex and basal ganglia?
Three criteria for a disruption of smoking addiction
What are
- Reporting quitting smoking less than 1 day after lesion onset?
- reporting that they did not start smoking again after they quit?
- Rating the difficulty of quitting as less than three on a scale of one to seven?
- Feeling no urges to smoke since quitting?
The meaning of cortex
What is the outer layer of an organ or structure in the body?