Historical pitfalls and new directions in the neuroscience of emotion

Barrett, Lisa Feldman; Satpute, Ajay B.

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2017.07.045

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“…While external experience refers to sights, sounds, and smells, internal experience refers to sensations, cognitions, and emotions. According to the James‐Lange theory and somatic marker hypothesis (Damasio & Carvalho, ), emotions have been understood more recently by neuroscientists (Barrett & Satpute, ) as being based on the central processing of interoceptive sensations and feelings. This is captured by the MAIA subscale for Emotional Awareness, the tendency to be aware of the connection between body sensations and emotional states.…”

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A 12‐week integrative exercise program improves self‐reported mindfulness and interoceptive awareness in war veterans with posttraumatic stress symptoms

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A 12‐week integrative exercise program improves self‐reported mindfulness and interoceptive awareness in war veterans with posttraumatic stress symptoms

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“…In our opinions, this would mean at least six things. First, self-injurious thoughts and behaviors work like most other psychological phenomena, which are complex on the level of biopsychosocial factors [e.g., emotions: see (23,24)]. Second, the causes, predictors, and correlates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors are indeterminate (i.e., show degeneracy and pluripotentiality, which are core feature of complex systems), but they are not random.…”

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“…To demonstrate that one factor or one factor combination is necessary, it must be shown that no other algorithms with different factors or factor combinations are also sufficient (i.e., yields good classification accuracy). simple (16,20,(22)(23)(24)(25)(26). We likewise hypothesize that the differences between people who engage in NSSI and people who attempt suicide are complex rather than complicated or simple.…”

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The Differences Between Individuals Engaging in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Suicide Attempt Are Complex (vs. Complicated or Simple)

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Background: Why do some people engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) while others attempt suicide? One way to advance knowledge about this question is to shed light on the differences between people who engage in NSSI and people who attempt suicide. These groups could differ in three broad ways. First, these two groups may differ in a simple way, such that one or a small set of factors is both necessary and sufficient to accurately distinguish the two groups. Second, they might differ in a complicated way, meaning that a specific set of a large number of factors is both necessary and sufficient to accurately classify them. Third, they might differ in a complex way, with no necessary factor combinations and potentially no sufficient factor combinations. In this scenario, at the group level, complicated algorithms would either be insufficient (i.e., no complicated algorithm produces good accuracy) or unnecessary (i.e., many complicated algorithms produce good accuracy) to distinguish between groups. This study directly tested these three possibilities in a sample of people with a history of NSSI and/or suicide attempt. Method: A total of 954 participants who have either engaged in NSSI and/or suicide attempt in their lifetime were recruited from online forums. Participants completed a series of measures on factors commonly associated with NSSI and suicide attempt. To test for simple differences, univariate logistic regressions were conducted. One theoretically informed multiple logistic regression model with suicidal desire, capability for suicide, and their interaction term was considered as well. To examine complicated and complex differences, multiple logistic regression and machine learning analyses were conducted. Results: No simple algorithm (i.e., single factor or small set of factors) accurately distinguished between groups. Complicated algorithms constructed with crossvalidation methods produced fair accuracy; complicated algorithms constructed with bootstrap optimism methods produced good accuracy, but multiple different algorithms with this method produced similar results. Conclusions: Findings were consistent with complex differences between people who engage in NSSI and suicide attempts. Specific complicated algorithms were either

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“…Cerebral vascular regulation is also thought to be based on predictive coding: the hemodynamic response anticipates neural firing in order to prevent a mismatch in blood supply and demand (Das & Sirotin, ; Philips, Chhabria, & Chakravarthy, ; Sirotin & Das, ). Thus, common mechanisms may support emotional perception, interoception, and bodily and cerebrovascular regulation (Barrett & Satpute, ).…”

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The ability to understand emotions is associated with interoception‐related insular activation and white matter integrity during aging

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Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a major cause of cognitive impairment in elderly people. While most research focuses on the role of the classical vascular risk factors in SVD, a description of the psychophysiological mechanisms leading to the age-related brain damage may open new possibilities for prophylaxis. In the current study, we evaluated the associations between emotional abilities, interoception, and age-related vascular white matter degeneration. The work was influenced, first, by multiple studies recognizing alexithymia as a cardiovascular risk factor; second, by theories of emotions linking body's allostasis and emotional regulation; and third, by neuroimaging data highlighting the shared role of the insular cortex in interoceptive and emotional processing. In a sample of older female adults (N = 30), we performed the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, functional MRI using the heartbeat detection task, and evaluation of white matter microstructural integrity using diffusion weighted imaging. The ability to understand and analyze emotions-one of the four components of emotional intelligence-was found to be associated with higher interoception-related activation of the right anterior insula and preserved white matter microstructure. We interpret these results in light of the concept of Embodied Predictive Interoception Coding, which proposes that emotional processing, interoception, and allostasis (antecedent top-down regulation of the body's internal milieu) may rely on the shared neural mechanisms of predictive coding. The study demonstrates feasibility of the investigation of cerebrovascular diseases form a psychophysiological perspective and calls for future research.

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Historical pitfalls and new directions in the neuroscience of emotion

Cited by 139 publications

References 138 publications

A 12‐week integrative exercise program improves self‐reported mindfulness and interoceptive awareness in war veterans with posttraumatic stress symptoms

A 12‐week integrative exercise program improves self‐reported mindfulness and interoceptive awareness in war veterans with posttraumatic stress symptoms

The Differences Between Individuals Engaging in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Suicide Attempt Are Complex (vs. Complicated or Simple)

The ability to understand emotions is associated with interoception‐related insular activation and white matter integrity during aging

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