PSYC 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Buspirone, Subcutaneous Tissue, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
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It is difficult to define and difficult to measure. Most scientists prefer to operationally define emotion as an observable behavior. Changes in ans occur first and emotion is a result of these. Presumes that different ans changes produce different changes. emotions. Emotion and physical arousal occur simultaneously but independently. We interpret our emotional response based on the context of the situation. Decerebrate cat - exaggerated aggressive behaviors - Cortex was important for directing behaviors toward subcortical structures sufficient for emotional behaviors appropriate targets and suppression of emotions. A system including the hippocampus, fornix, mammillary bodies anterior nucleus of the thalamus, cingulate gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus (entorhinal cortex). Papez believed that these structures were important for regulation of emotional behavior. These areas responded to taste, smell and pain stimuli that evoke strong emotional responses. Expanded papez"s ideas and called this system the limbic. The limbic system forms a border around the brain stem.
