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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 affect to control: Functional specialization of the insula in motivation and regulation
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of insular tasks across studies in four domains provides evidence that different sub-regions are preferentially activated in different tasks and suggests that the ventral anterior insula is most important for core affect, a term that describes broadly-tuned motivational states with associated subjective feelings.
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Microbial endocrinology : the microbiota-gut-brain axis in health and disease
Mark Lyte,John F. Cryan +1 more
TL;DR: The impact of Microbiota on Brain and Behavior: Mechanisms & Therapeutic Potential, and the Future of Probiotics for Disorders of the Brain-Gut Axis.
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Empathy hurts: compassion for another increases both sensory and affective components of pain perception.
TL;DR: The effects were observed when subjects watched the model receiving either neutral or painful stimuli, suggesting that it is empathy itself that alters pain perception, and not necessarily the observation of pain behaviors.
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Stimulation of the human cortex and the experience of pain: Wilder Penfield's observations revisited
Laure Mazzola,Jean Isnard,Jean Isnard,Roland Peyron,Roland Peyron,François Mauguière,François Mauguière +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, subjective and videotaped behavioural responses to 4160 cortical stimulations using intracerebral electrodes implanted in all cortical lobes were carried out over 12 years during the presurgical evaluation of epilepsy in 164 consecutive patients.
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Attentional Modulation of Primary Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Cortices
TL;DR: The anterior insula is not an area of pure body awareness but may link representations of the outside world with the body's internal state--a potential basis for emotional experience.
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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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