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How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body.
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Functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body that might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.Abstract:
As humans, we perceive feelings from our bodies that relate our state of well-being, our energy and stress levels, our mood and disposition. How do we have these feelings? What neural processes do they represent? Recent functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body. This system constitutes a representation of 'the material me', and might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.read more
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On the generalised embodiment of pain: how interoceptive sensitivity modulates cutaneous pain perception.
TL;DR: Novel evidence is provided that interoceptive sensitivity is associated with the experience and tolerability of pain in conjunction with reactive changes in autonomic balance, and both enhanced sensitivity and decreased tolerance to pain.
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Age-Related Increase in Inferior Frontal Gyrus Activity and Social Functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Jojanneke A. Bastiaansen,Marc Thioux,Marc Thioux,Luca Nanetti,Christiaan van der Gaag,Cees Ketelaars,Ruud B. Minderaa,Christian Keysers,Christian Keysers +8 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that mirror neuron system activity augments with age in autism and that this is accompanied by changes in gaze behavior and improved social functioning, the first demonstration of an age-related neurocognitive improvement in autism.
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The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious
TL;DR: A great deal of complex cognitive processing occurs at the unconscious level and affects how humans behave, think, and feel as mentioned in this paper, and scientists are only now beginning to understand how this occurs on the neural level.
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Development of the eating behaviour in Prader-Willi Syndrome: advances in our understanding.
TL;DR: It is speculated that the overeating behaviour in Prader–Willi Syndrome could be due to a direct effect of the PWS genotype on the feeding pathways of the hypothalamus or a consequence of prenatal changes in the regulation of genes responsible for energy balance that sets a high satiation threshold.
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Central representation of muscle pain and mechanical hyperesthesia in the orofacial region: a positron emission tomography study
TL;DR: The results suggest that the cerebral processing of jaw‐muscle pain may differ from the processing of cutaneous pain and that mechanical hyperesthesia, which often is encountered in clinical cases, has a unique representation in the brain.
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors discusses the multiplicity of the consciousness of self in the form of the stream of thought and the perception of space in the human brain, which is the basis for our work.
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
TL;DR: The authors argued that rational decisions are not the product of logic alone - they require the support of emotion and feeling, drawing on his experience with neurological patients affected with brain damage, Dr Damasio showed how absence of emotions and feelings can break down rationality.
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