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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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Different representations of relative and absolute subjective value in the human brain
TL;DR: Both relative and absolute subjective value signals which provide important inputs to decision-making processes about which stimulus to choose are separately and simultaneously represented in the human brain.
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Confidence in beliefs about pain predicts expectancy effects on pain perception and anticipatory processing in right anterior insula
TL;DR: The results support probabilistic models of pain perception and suggest that confidence in beliefs is an important determinant of expectancy effects on pain perception.
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Brain circuitry underlying pain in response to imagined movement in people with spinal cord injury.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that in SCI subjects with neuropathic pain, a cognitive task is able to activate brain circuits involved in pain processing independently of peripheral inputs.
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Orexin/hypocretin modulation of the basal forebrain cholinergic system: Role in attention.
Jim R. Fadel,Joshua A. Burk +1 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that orexin inputs to the BFCS form an anatomical substrate for links between arousal and attention, and that these interactions might be particularly important as a means by which interoceptive cues bias allocation of attentional resources toward related exteroceptive stimuli.
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How specific is specific phobia? Different neural response patterns in two subtypes of specific phobia.
Ulrike Lueken,Johann Daniel Kruschwitz,Markus Muehlhan,Jens Siegert,Jürgen Hoyer,Hans-Ulrich Wittchen +5 more
TL;DR: Preliminary evidence is provided for the idea that snake and dental phobia are characterized by distinct underlying neural systems during sustained emotional processing with evaluation processes in DP being controlled by orbitofrontal areas, whereas phobogenic reactions in SP are primarily guided by limbic and paralimbic structures.
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