Journal article
Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions
Nature neuroscience, Vol.3(10), pp.1049-1056
10/2000
DOI: 10.1038/79871
PMID: 11017179
Abstract
In a series of [15O]PET experiments aimed at investigating the neural basis of emotion and feeling, 41 normal subjects recalled and re-experienced personal life episodes marked by sadness, happiness, anger or fear. We tested the hypothesis that the process of feeling emotions requires the participation of brain regions, such as the somatosensory cortices and the upper brainstem nuclei, that are involved in the mapping and/or regulation of internal organism states. Such areas were indeed engaged, underscoring the close relationship between emotion and homeostasis. The findings also lend support to the idea that the subjective process of feeling emotions is partly grounded in dynamic neural maps, which represent several aspects of the organism's continuously changing internal state
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- Title: Subtitle
- Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions
- Creators
- Antoine Bechara - Department of Neurology (Division of Cognitive Neuroscience) and PET Imaging Center, University of Iowa College of MedicineLaura L.B Ponto - Department of Neurology (Division of Cognitive Neuroscience) and PET Imaging Center, University of Iowa College of MedicineJosef Parvizi - Department of Neurology (Division of Cognitive Neuroscience) and PET Imaging Center, University of Iowa College of MedicineHanna Damasio - Department of Neurology (Division of Cognitive Neuroscience) and PET Imaging Center, University of Iowa College of MedicineAntonio R Damasio - Department of Neurology (Division of Cognitive Neuroscience) and PET Imaging Center, University of Iowa College of MedicineRichard D Hichwa - Department of Neurology (Division of Cognitive Neuroscience) and PET Imaging Center, University of Iowa College of MedicineThomas J Grabowski - Department of Neurology (Division of Cognitive Neuroscience) and PET Imaging Center, University of Iowa College of Medicine
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nature neuroscience, Vol.3(10), pp.1049-1056
- DOI
- 10.1038/79871
- PMID
- 11017179
- ISSN
- 1097-6256
- eISSN
- 1546-1726
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2000
- Academic Unit
- Radiology; Research Administration; Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics; Physics and Astronomy; Radiation Oncology
- Record Identifier
- 9984051503502771
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