BioCog 8B emotion Flashcards
1
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six basic emotions
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- anger
- disgust
- fear
- happiness
- sadness
- surprise
2
Q
non-basic emotions
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- mixes of one or more basic emotion
3
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bodily reaction to anxiety
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- sweat
- stress hormones
- faster breathing
- increased blood flow
- muscles tensening
- pain surpression
4
Q
amygdala
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- most important for emotion
5
Q
potentiated startle
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- rats fearful reaction to the conditioned stimulus
6
Q
input for amygdala
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- lateral nucleus (direct)
- basal nucleus (indirect)
7
Q
informatioin processing for amygdala
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- central nucleus
8
Q
output from amygdala
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- nucleus reticularis
9
Q
nervus vagus
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- inhibits PNS
10
Q
paraventricular nucleus
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- controls HPA-axis
11
Q
paraticular hypothalamic nucleus
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- from amygdala
- to hypothalamus
12
Q
hypothalamus (in stress)
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produces CRF
13
Q
CRF
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- stimulates pituitary
14
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pituitary
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- from CRF
- produces ACTH
15
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ACTH
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- from pituitary
- stimulates adrenal gland
16
Q
cortisol
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- stress hormone
- breaks up protein, releases glucose
- too much over long can damage hippocampus
- surpresses immune system
17
Q
GABAergic neurons
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- inhibit amygdala
18
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serotonine
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- excite GABAergic neurons
19
Q
treatment for anxiety
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- either benzos or SSRIs
20
Q
vmPFC
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- counterpart of amygdala
- rational decisions
- weighs rational gain against the emotional consequences
- social and moral decisions
21
Q
hippocampus in stress
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- retrieves memories
- so we fear a snake before we actually encounter one
22
Q
chronic stress
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= depressivity
- overactivation of HPA-axis
- too much cortisol
- eventually hippocampus damage
23
Q
cytokines
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- used for communication between lymphocites
- interfered by cortisol
24
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lymphocites
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- for immune responses
25
James-Lange theory
- emotions are merely result of bodily reactions
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voluntary expressions
- no eye muscles
| - left motor cortex
27
voluntary paresis
- right motor cortex damage
28
spaneous expressions
= automatic
- eye muscles
- both hemispheres
- subcortical regions
29
emotional paresis
- no spontaneous expressions
| - left white matter damage
30
feedback loop face - feeling
- we make a happy face and become happy
| - explains why we like to make other people laugh
