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| What are some examples of how the visceral motor system indicates signs of emotional arousal? |
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| increases or decreases in heart rate, increases or decreases in cutaneous blood flow, piloerection, sweating, gastrointestinal motility |
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| anger behavior that has no obvious target; can be elicited when only the hypothalamus is intact; cannot be elicited when the hypothalamus is damaged |
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| a tangled web of nerve cells & fibers in the core of the brainstem; contains the major targets of the hypothalamus |
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| the part of the cerebral cortex that forms a rim around the corpus callosum & diencephalon on the medial face of the hemispheres; named by Paul Broca in 1878; name comes from "limbus" meaning rim |
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| 2 prominent components of the limbic lobe |
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| cingulate gyrus & parahippocampal gyrus |
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| Where is the cingulate gyrus? |
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| above the corpus callosum |
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| Where is the parahippocampal gyrus? |
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| in the medial temporal lobe |
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| Papez showed that the cingulate cortex & hypothalamus are interconnected via projections from the _____ to the _____ which projects in turn to the cingulate gyrus |
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| mammillary bodies; anterior nucleus of the thalamus |
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| a large fiber bundle; how the hippocampus projects back to the hypothalamus |
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| mammillary bodies (part of the hypothalamus) --> anterior nucleus of the thalamus --> cingulate gyrus --> hippocampus --> hypothalamus |
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| 6 parts of the limbic system |
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1. orbital prefrontal cortex
2. medial prefrontal cortex
3. mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus
4. amygdala
5. parahippocampal gyrus
6. cingulate cortex |
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| Is the Papez circuit very correct? |
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| conditioned fear response |
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| conditioned fear develops when an initially neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with an inherently aversive one; over time, the animal begins to respond to the neutral stimulus with behaviors similar to those elicited by the threatening stimulus |
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| What part of the brain is crucial to conditioned fear? |
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| Interactions between what three brain structures account for the highly subjective feelings that attend most emotional states? |
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| the amygdala, the neocortex, & related subcortical circuits |
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| the loss of emotional expression by modulation of speech patterns |
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| Patients with damage to the supra-Sylvian portions of the posterior frontal & anterior parietal lobes on the right side of the brain may experience _____ |
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| Lesions in the left hemisphere to portions of the posterior frontal & anterior parietal lobes may lead to _____ |
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| Which comes first: emotion or feelings? |
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| NO PROOF OF EITHER! (more experimental evidence supporting emotions first though) |
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