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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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Role of distorted body image in pain.
Martin Lotze,G. Lorimer Moseley +1 more
TL;DR: This review examines the literature relating to body image distortion in people with pain, and discusses three themes: evidence of distorted body image inPeople with pain; evidence of distortion of the neural representations of body image held in primary sensory and primary motor cortex; and clinical findings that correlate with distorted body images, distorted neural representation, or both.
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Neurobiology of empathy and callousness: Implications for the development of antisocial behavior
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff,Michael J. Vitacco,Alexander R. Graf,J B A Andrew Gostisha,L B A Jenna Merz,Carolyn Zahn-Waxler +5 more
TL;DR: The review proposes that neurobiological impairments in individuals who display little empathy are not necessarily due to a reduced ability to understand the emotions of others, and suggests that individuals who show little arousal to the distress of others likewise show decreased physiological arousal to their own distress.
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Vicarious Responses to Social Touch in Posterior Insular Cortex Are Tuned to Pleasant Caressing Speeds
TL;DR: These findings provide direct evidence for a functional relationship between CT signaling and processing in posterior insular cortex, and selective tuning for CT-optimal signals in insula may allow recognition of the hedonic relevance of a merely observed caress.
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Dyspnea and pain share emotion-related brain network
Andreas von Leupoldt,Tobias Sommer,Sarah Kegat,Hans Jörg Baumann,Hans Klose,Bernhard Dahme,Christian Büchel +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the perception of both aversive sensations is processed in similar brain areas including the insula, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala and medial thalamus, which have a documented role in the processing of emotions such as fear and anxiety.
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Damage to Association Fiber Tracts Impairs Recognition of the Facial Expression of Emotion
TL;DR: The findings demonstrate the key role of white matter association tracts in the recognition of the facial expression of emotion and identify specific tracts that may be most critical and suggest that impairment in fear recognition can result from damage to the IFOF and not the amygdala.
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