Emotions and the Brain – Or How to Master “The Force”

Raschle, Nora Maria; Tshomba, Ebongo; Menks, Willeke Martine; Fehlbaum, Lynn Valérie; Stadler, Christina

doi:10.3389/frym.2016.00016

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“…Kraepelin dubbed pyromania as an impulsive insanity, and Freud described it as resulting from aberrant psychosexual development [15]. A landmark study by Lewis and Yarnell in 1951 heralded the modern age of pyromania and fire setting research [16], one that has continued till today. Pyromania is a male-prone disorder that is not so frequently witnessed, and this has led to paucity of research in it, largely due to limited number of patients [17].…”

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More on the Emotional Part of the BrainThere are six basic known emotions: happiness, disgust, jealousy, anger, sadness and fear. Recent day research, working from findings provided for by MRI scans, show that the parts of the brain that light up with the influx of emotions includes the prefrontal cortex (PFC), amygdala, the cingulate cortex (CC), the hippocampus, and the basal ganglia [1]. Other parts of the brain that witness to the expression of emotions includes, the left insula, the precuneus, hypothalamus, occipital lobes [2], and a part of the midbrain called periaqueductal gray. A diagrammatic look at these locations indicate that are quite dispersed and wide spread, yet they all fire at the same time when emotions are evoked. In the brain the PFC and the amygdala are very well connected and work harmoniously in tandem with the expression of emotions [3]. In physiological conditions, the PFC shows inhibitory control over the activity of the amygdala, a control that moves from top to down. This puts a wedge over its output, allowing thus for the needed or appropriate emotion to be expressed [4]. However, when there is a malfunctioning of the PFC, that distorts the activation processes of the amygdala, then what is noticed is a deficit in behaviour and emotion display [5]. My research on nonlocality of functions in the brain has shown that the brain operates more as a unit, even though they are areas of the brain that are notably linked to ARTICLE INFO

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