MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'brain emotions'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:38 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265641&cid=t_147028_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007754.html Fearlessness comes from an underactive amygdala. A new study, published online on December 16 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, offers new insight into the emotional life of a unique individual who completely lacks the function of an almond-shaped structure in the brain known as the amygdala. Studies over the last 50 years have shown that the amygdala plays a central role in generating fear reactions in animals from rats to monkeys. Based on the detailed case study of the woman identified only as SM, it now appears that the same is true of humans. She knows no fear. To explore this role of the amygdala, Feinstein and his Univeristy of Iowa team observed and recorded SM's responses in... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265641 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4265641 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3858117&cid=t_147028_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007396.html Make someone angry so they'll respond more to the prospect of rewards? Anger is a negative emotion. But, like being happy or excited, feeling angry makes people want to seek rewards, according to a new study of emotion and visual attention. The researchers found that people who are angry pay more attention to rewards than to threats—the opposite of people feeling other negative emotions like fear.  Previous research has shown that emotion affects what someone pays attention to. If a fearful or anxious person is given a choice of a rewarding picture, like a sexy couple, or a threatening picture, like a person waving a knife threateningly, they’ll spend more time looking at the threat than at the rewarding picture.... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3858117 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3858117 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3416234&cid=t_147028_133_f&fid=35084&url=http%3A%2F%2Fballastexistenz.autistics.org%2F%3Fp%3D616 Let’s get two really simple things straight. Overload is not anxiety. Shutdown is not dissociation. Overload may cause anxiety sometimes for some people. But it is an experience that is at the heart of things… sensory, perceptual, cognitive, whatever you want to call it. But while emotions can be involved, it really isn’t at the core an emotional experience. Get rid of the emotions and overload and shutdown will still happen for most people. I think there are two main things at the root of this confusion: One, overload and shutdown are not ideas psychiatric professionals are generally taught about. They generally are taught more about emotional experiences than perceptual ones. Two, the only time many nonautistic people can be driven to something that looks like over... Ballastexistenz blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3416234 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:43:35 +0100 3416234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2682026&cid=t_147028_122_f&fid=34736&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FChannelN-PodcastsPoweredByOdiogo%2F%7E3%2FsjSVkdo1xHQ%2Fsynchronized-transcripts.html Creative Genius: We Feel Fine FORA.tv now features searchable video! A genuinely revolutionary technical achievement. A full-text searchable transcript is synchronized to the video, and sentences are highlighted as it plays. Click on any word in the transcript to move to that part of the video. FORA.tv has always had the best custom video player online and this takes it light years beyond their competition. Oh yeah: this lecture is about We Feel Fine, a digital art site fed by emotions expressed in blogs, and another art project about a whaling trip that I’m vague about now because I’m too excited about searchable video and synched transcripts. Epic! Go see! (To find other synched videos on their site, try searching for the phrase “jump to that point.” They will be ... Channel N blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2682026 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:23:59 +0100 2682026 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1917980&cid=t_147028_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F005666.html Hello again puppets. Add immune system mast cells to our list of puppeteers. Anyone still think we have free will? In the first study ever to genetically link the immune... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1917980 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1917980 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1914648&cid=t_147028_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F005665.html Coming from Professor Semir Zeki and John Romaya of the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology at the University College London, a new research paper in Plos One on how hatred activates... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1914648 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1914648 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=977349&cid=t_147028_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004713.html By learning with video games people can be trained to feel less stress and produce less cortisol stress hormone. A video game designed by McGill University researchers to help train... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=977349 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 977349 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=977352&cid=t_147028_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004710.html If you are feeling optimistic it is all down to your rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) and amygdala. A neural network that may generate the human tendency to be optimistic... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=977352 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 977352 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=868223&cid=t_147028_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004581.html Being lonely probably changes the level of expression of over 200 of your genes. Cole and colleagues at UCLA and the University of Chicago used DNA microarrays to survey the... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=868223 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:00:00 +0100 868223 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=784120&cid=t_147028_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fwhat-is-the-ego%2F The ego has been defined in many ways. In the following definitions, we are examining the ego as our identity in the human realm. The ego is our identity. It is who we believe ourselves to be. It is our reference point, and our "home" in the world. The ego is individuality. As our identity, it sets us apart from other people’s identities. To provide our sense of being separate from other people and from the world in general, the ego creates "ego boundaries"; in that separateness, our ego distinguishes itself as being unique. The ego is a center of consciousness. It is an "eye" from which we look at the world. The ego is an executive. It makes decisions. It implements our will. The ego is an organizer. It makes a distinction between the inner world and t... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=784120 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:46:32 +0100 784120