The Structure of the Emotions and the Limbic System

Gray, Jeffrey A.

doi:10.1002/9780470719916.ch6

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“…Although this electroencephalographic (EEG) activity has been observed in several brain regions, for example, entorhinal cortex (Alonso and Garcia‐Austt, ) or cingulate cortex (Landfield and McGaugh, ), the hippocampal formation (HPC) is considered to be the main structure involved in the generation of theta (Bland, ). Theta rhythm in rodents has been postulated to be involved in arousal (Green and Arduini, ), attention (Bennett, ), behavioral functions (Vanderwolf, ; O'Keefe and Nadel, ), sensorimotor integration (Bland and Oddie, ), cognitive processes (Winson, ), and emotion (Gray, ).…”

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Atropine-sensitive theta rhythm in the posterior hypothalamic area: In vivo and in vitro studies

et al. 2013

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Theta rhythm is the largest, most prominent, and well-documented electroencephalography activity present in a number of mammals, including humans. Spontaneous theta activity recorded locally in the posterior hypothalamic area (PHa) has never been the subject of detailed studies. The authors have shown that local theta field potentials could be generated in urethane-anesthetized rats in the supramammillary (SuM) nuclei and posterior hypothalamic (PH) nuclei. Theta recorded in the PHa was produced independently of simultaneously occurring hippocampal theta. These data were confirmed in the PHa maintained in vitro. Local theta field activity was recorded in the SuM and PH nuclei of PHa slice preparations perfused with cholinergic agonist carbachol. Both in vivo and in vitro recorded PHa theta rhythmicity had a cholinergic-muscarinic profile, that is, it was antagonized by muscarinic antagonist atropine sulfate.

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Atropine-sensitive theta rhythm in the posterior hypothalamic area: In vivo and in vitro studies

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“…Jeffrey Alan Gray developed the first version of the reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality in the early 1970s on the basis of the combination of the data collected from animal studies and from accumulating knowledge of the function of neurotransmitter systems of the mammalian brain; in addition, it had influences from the descriptive personality model of Eysenck (Corr, ). BIS is one of the three temperament traits of Gray's temperament model, the others being behavioural activation system (BAS) and fight flight system (Gray, , ). The latter two, however, are not relevant in regard to our study question.…”

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Stress Proneness in Molecularly Defined Long QT Syndrome: A Study Using Temperament Assessment by Behavioural Inhibition System Scale

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The long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited cardiac disorder that predisposes the mutation carrier to ventricular arrhythmias that can lead to sudden death. The objective of the present study was to replicate the previous finding in terms of stress-related temperament trait, i.e. behavioural inhibition system (BIS). The study subjects included 583 LQTS mutation carriers (256 symptomatic and 327 asymptomatic) from the Finnish LQTS registry and 79 healthy subjects randomly derived from the population-based sample of the Young Finns Study. Symptomatic and asymptomatic LQTS mutation carriers did not differ from each other on BIS (3.27 versus 3.24, p > 0.05), whereas LQTS mutation carriers scored higher on BIS than the comparison group derived from the representative population-based sample (3.25 versus 2.99, p = 0.003, η² = 0.014). BIS was significantly higher in women than in men (3.32 versus 3.06, p < 0.001, η² = 0.017). The results confirm our previous finding of higher stress proneness of LQTS mutation carriers. Their innate stress proneness may have relevance because it increases our understanding on the role of stress in the manifestation of symptoms.

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“…A second system is believed to govern the engagement of action and has been referred to as the Behavioral Activation System (BAS; Fowles, 1980, 1988) or, alternatively, the Behavioral Approach System (Gray, 1982) or the Behavior Facilitation System (Depue & Collins, 1999; Depue & Iacono, 1989). Although conceptions of the BIS and BAS were originally developed from behavioral neuroscience research conducted primarily on nonhuman animals (Gray, 1972), the BIS/BAS model has proven to be a useful framework for understanding motivation and personality as they apply to a range of normal and abnormal human behaviors. More recently, the development of reliable self‐report measures of BIS and BAS sensitivity has facilitated the translation of BIS/BAS from animal models to the study of human social behavior.…”

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Neurocognitive components of the behavioral inhibition and activation systems: Implications for theories of self‐regulation

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We examined the neurocognitive correlates of the Behavioral Inhibition and Behavioral Activation Systems (BIS/BAS) in an effort to clarify ambiguities concerning interpretations of BIS as reflecting inhibition versus avoidance. We hypothesized that self-reported BIS should relate to neural mechanisms associated with conflict monitoring, whereas self-reported BAS should be associated with neural correlates of approach motivation. Consistent with these predictions, higher self-reported BIS was uniquely related to the N2 event-related potential on No-Go trials of a Go/No-Go task, linking BIS with conflict monitoring and sensitivity to No-Go cues. Higher BAS was uniquely related to greater left-sided baseline frontal cortical asymmetry associated with approach orientation. Implications for theories of self-regulation involving conflict monitoring, cognitive control, and approach/avoidance motivation are discussed.

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The Structure of the Emotions and the Limbic System

Cited by 54 publications

References 71 publications

Atropine-sensitive theta rhythm in the posterior hypothalamic area: In vivo and in vitro studies

Atropine-sensitive theta rhythm in the posterior hypothalamic area: In vivo and in vitro studies

Stress Proneness in Molecularly Defined Long QT Syndrome: A Study Using Temperament Assessment by Behavioural Inhibition System Scale

Neurocognitive components of the behavioral inhibition and activation systems: Implications for theories of self‐regulation

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