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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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From nociception to pain perception: imaging the spinal and supraspinal pathways.
Jonathan C W Brooks,Irene Tracey +1 more
TL;DR: The imaging literature to date is reviewed, and new frontiers for pain imaging research are examined: imaging the brainstem and other structures involved in the descending control of pain; functional and anatomical connectivity studies of pain processing brain regions; imaging models of neuropathic pain‐like states; and going beyond the brain to image spinal function.
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Affect is a form of cognition: A neurobiological analysis
Seth Duncan,Lisa Feldman Barrett +1 more
TL;DR: Understanding the differences between affect and cognition will require systematic study of how the phenomenological distinction characterising the two comes about, and why such a distinction is functional.
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Mindfulness meditation training alters cortical representations of interoceptive attention
TL;DR: It is suggested that interoceptive training modulates task-specific cortical recruitment, analogous to training-related plasticity observed in the external senses, by comparing graduates of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course to a waitlisted control group.
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Functional neuroanatomy of aversion and its anticipation.
Jack B. Nitschke,Issidoros Sarinopoulos,Kristen L. Mackiewicz,Hillary S. Schaefer,Richard J. Davidson +4 more
TL;DR: Results show that anticipation of aversion recruits key brain regions that respond to aversion, thereby potentially enhancing adaptive responses to aversive events.
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Emotion and the prefrontal cortex: An integrative review.
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of functional neuroimaging, electrophysiological, lesion, and structural connectivity studies on the emotion-related functions of 8 subregions spanning the entire PFC is provided and the appraisal-by-content model is introduced, which provides a new framework for integrating the diverse range of empirical findings.
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