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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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VNS therapy in treatment-resistant depression: clinical evidence and putative neurobiological mechanisms.
Charles B. Nemeroff,Helen S. Mayberg,Scott E. Krahl,James O. McNamara,Alan Frazer,Thomas R. Henry,Mark S. George,Dennis S. Charney,Stephen K. Brannan +8 more
TL;DR: Evidence from neuroimaging and other studies suggests that VNS therapy acts via innervation of the nucleus tractus solitarius, with secondary projections to limbic and cortical structures that are involved in mood regulation, including brainstem regions that contain serotonergic and noradrenergic regions that project to the forebrain.
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Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children.
Jennifer H. Pfeifer,Marco Iacoboni,Marco Iacoboni,John C. Mazziotta,John C. Mazziotta,Mirella Dapretto,Mirella Dapretto +6 more
TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to directly examine the relationship between MNS activity and two distinct indicators of social functioning in typically-developing children, suggesting that simulation mechanisms and the MNS may indeed be relevant to social function in everyday life during typical human development.
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Neural substrates of smoking cue reactivity: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies
Jeffrey M. Engelmann,Francesco Versace,Jason D. Robinson,Jennifer A. Minnix,Cho Y. Lam,Yong Cui,Victoria L. Brown,Paul M. Cinciripini +7 more
TL;DR: Results of the meta-analysis indicated that smoking cues reliably evoke larger fMRI responses than neutral cues in the extended visual system, precuneus, posterior cingulate gyrus, posterior and medial prefrontal cortex, insula, and dorsal striatum, and areas that were found to be responsive to smoking cues agree with theories of the neurobiology of cue reactivity.
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Threatening a rubber hand that you feel is yours elicits a cortical anxiety response
H. Henrik Ehrsson,Katja Wiech,Katja Wiech,Nikolaus Weiskopf,Raymond J. Dolan,Richard E. Passingham,Richard E. Passingham +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that threat to the rubber hand can induce a similar level of activity in the brain areas associated with anxiety and interoceptive awareness as when the person's real hand is threatened.
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fMRI of emotional responses to odors: influence of hedonic valence and judgment, handedness, and gender.
TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging data suggested that left orbitofrontal cortex was more active in women than men, potentially in relation to women's well-documented advantage in odor identification and lateralized processing of emotional odors as a function of handedness.
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