PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Evernote, Nucleus Accumbens, The Emotions
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6 - brain mechanisms and emotion encephalitis lethargica - sleeping sickness virus attacked striatal regions of the brain, full of dopamine neurons dopamine is responsible for motivation, action, and feelings of pleasure people were in states of suspension - motionless ad speechless. Historical approaches to neuroscience and emotion neuroimaging - a machine monitors biochemical events in a series of digitally animated slices through a person"s brain and constructs visual images these images show which regions of the brain metabolically most active noninvasive hindbrain - control basic physiological processes medulla - regulates cardiovascular activity pons - controls sleep and breathing cerebellum - motor coordination and automatic movements forebrain thalamus - integrating sensor information hippocampus - memory processes hypothalamus - biological functions, e. g. eating, sexual behaviours, aggression, bodily tension limbic system - amygdala and cerebral cortex frontal lobe - planning, decision making, emotion regulations.
