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Modality - specific alterations in the perception of emotional stimuli in bipolar disorder compared to healthy controls and major depressive disorder

Effects of mindful - attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state.

Based on previous findings on attention to emotional stimuli in children with disruptive behaviors (e.g., Kimonis et al., 2012; Hodsoll et al., 2014), we hypothesized that higher levels of CU traits would be associated with reduced attention toward fearful and angry faces, while higher levels of ODD - related problems would be associated with greater attention toward both negative and positive (happy) emotional faces.

Psychopathy, aggression, and the processing of emotional stimuli in non-referred girls and boys.

EEG Correlations during a Working Memory Task with Emotional Stimuli in Girls with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Secondary to Sexual Abuse

Not exact matches

In the more emotional types of Protestant service both the external stimuli and the inner warmth which the worshiper expects — and goes to church to secure — are conducive to attention.

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

Finally, we should keep in mind that everybody tends to overreact to emotional stimuli at the end of the day.

In fact, even innate language - learning ability is dependent on environmental stimuli, which includes emotional bonding that results in a desire to communicate more intimatelIn fact, even innate language - learning ability is dependent on environmental stimuli, which includes emotional bonding that results in a desire to communicate more intimatelin a desire to communicate more intimately.

The fear conditioning experiments, done with live rats, showed that individual neurons in the amygdala, the emotional hub of the brain, that were initially capable of telling apart safe from dangerous stimuli can start firing indiscriminately — causing the rat to become fearful of non-threatening stimuli.

This novel study is the first to separate emotion from threat by controlling for the dimension of arousal, the emotional reaction provoked, whether positive or negative, in response to stimuli.

«In light of the current findings, it is certainly plausible that individuals displaying decreased pupillary response to emotional stimuli and relatively higher levels of disaster - related stress may be good candidates for cognitive therapy to alleviate their depression,» said Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, and co-author of the study.

Short pain stimuli are processed in sensory brain areas, whereas ongoing pain is processed in frontal brain areas which are related to emotional processes.

Study in rats suggests long - term, moderate consumption of alcohol improves recall of both visual and emotional stimuli

Getting stuck on threatening stimuli is often associated with difficulties in regulating negative emotional experiences.

Other studies have shown that asthma patients experience more constricted airways than healthy control subjects in response to emotional stimuli.

The researchers scanned the entire brain and discovered that memories of alcohol consumption — often prompted by external stimuli — caused activation of this protein in specific regions of the frontal cortex, the area of the brain related to memory processing, as well as in the nucleus of the amygdala, which is responsible for emotional memories and involved in the emotional symptoms related to withdrawal.

The fMRI results (event - related design) show that chemosensory anxiety signals activate brain areas involved in the processing of social emotional stimuli (fusiform gyrus), and in the regulation of empathic feelings (insula, precuneus, cingulate cortex).

To summarize (and simplify) greatly, depression is a dysfunction in the communication between your brain's frontal lobe, your thinking brain, and limbic system which controls autonomic bodily functions, like breathing and heart beat, and endocrine function, particularly in response to emotional stimuli.

An overstimulated, undernourished nervous system results in greater emotional sensitivity and reactivity, so by strengthening this system we increase our threshold for stress - and anxiety - provoking stimuli.

In regards to emotional support and anxiety - reduction, there are a number of standouts that work incredibly effectively by nourishing the nervous and endocrine systems, thereby regulating our physiological reaction to life stressors and stimuli.

I suspect it would be much healthier to have the connections more focused on physical and emotional stimuli, more akin to what's encountered in the 2 - player game.

Visual stimuli and emotional response are linked in a simple way and these two together generate what we call memories.

If a child develops a feeling of intense anger in response to a stimulus, that anger may represent an emotional memory of an earlier experience stored in the OFC.

However, the most efficient method to create a strong positive emotional response to stimuli is to not only condition the response with the first experience, but also to have the novel stimulus (e.g., nail trimmers) precede the pleasant one (treat), as in the following steps:

A good approach in tackling dog fear is to invest in classical counterconditioning — a behavior modification technique meant to change the dog's emotional response towards a feared stimulus by encouraging an emotion that is incompatible with fear.

in the past about using counter-conditioning and desensitization to help dogs change their association with fear - causing stimuli in order to change their emotional response.

Here, the emotional responses of 23 BD participants were compared with that of 24 healthy controls after various stimuli; the study found greater HRV in the BD group after the stimuli through an increase in measures related to parasympathetic activity.16 More recently, in 2015, Voggt et al investigated HRV features in 90 euthymic bipolar patients compared with 62 healthy controls.

Emotional and physiological responses to normative and idiographic positive stimuli in bipolar disorder

Citing research, Schore asserts «the right hemisphere is dominant for the perception of nonverbal emotional expressions embedded in facial and prosodic stimuli, even at unconscious levels, for nonverbal communication, and for implicit learning,» and that «emotional face - to - face communications occur on an unconscious level.»

Ortner et al. (2007) further showed that when meditation - naïve participants were assigned to mindfulness meditation, relaxation meditation training, or waitlist control, after 7 - week training, only the mindfulness meditation group showed a reduction in emotional interference, that is, they were quicker to disengage their attention from emotional stimuli.

Results indicated MBCT - C was associated with increases in activation of the bilateral insula, lentiform nucleus, and thalamus, as well as the left anterior cingulate while viewing emotional stimuli during the continuous processing task with emotional and neutral distractors (CPT - END), and decreases in anxiety were correlated with change in activation in the bilateral insula and anterior cingulate during the viewing of emotional stimuli.

However, the difference in brain activity during processing of both, positive and negative emotional facial stimuli between the two priming conditions appeared in the attachment anxiety group alone.

This temperamental profile can act aggressively, in an emotionally dysregulated manner, within the context of these strong emotions, without thinking to the potential consequences of these acts, given the hypervigilant style of responding to emotional stimuli.

As for ODD, studies have shown, as early as preschool age, that, compared to children with low levels of CU traits and ODD, those with higher levels of CU traits have more severe ODD problems, showing deficits in processing emotional stimuli, such as fearful faces, having lower levels of fearfulness and anxiety, manifesting insensitivity to punishment and displaying physiological hypoarousal, such as low stress reaction — lower heart rate at rest and during reactivity to emotional stimuli (Fanti, 2016).

Relative to healthy controls, MDD youth displayed a potentiated response to peer rejection in a ventral network of brain regions involved in the identification of emotional and social stimuli and the generation of affective states (Phillips et al., 2003), including the sgACC, anterior insula, amygdala and NAcc.

As crucial processes to extracting information from the environment, attention mechanisms are considered highly relevant to attachment - related differences in the processing of emotional stimuli, especially potentially threatening stimuli (Fraley et al., 2000).

In real life situations, we tend to process emotional information alongside other stimuli, therefore it is critical for successful social functioning to react to emotional cues, even if these occur while we are engaged in another activitIn real life situations, we tend to process emotional information alongside other stimuli, therefore it is critical for successful social functioning to react to emotional cues, even if these occur while we are engaged in another activitin another activity.

This, along with the higher activation seen before the presentation of emotional facial stimuli, implies that cues related to a secure figure can capture the attention resources, thereby affecting the performance in subsequent cognitive tasks.

As irritable mood is characterized by excessive reactivity to negative emotional stimuli, irritable individuals are more likely to be angry or aggressive in response to provocation [19].

Therefore, for this temperamental profile, problems in regulating high negative emotional reactivity and a hypervigilent style toward emotional stimuli increase the propensity for serious conduct problems.

In the case of negative emotional stimuli, these results partially support our hypothesis regarding the interaction effects of CU traits and ODD on attentional allocation.

For instance, there is evidence of individual differences in expressing avoidance or hypervigilance with respect to attachment threats: fearful avoidant individuals are in fact characterized by cognitive avoidance of all highly emotional stimuli (Dewitte et al., 2007).

We suggest that the nature of emotional arousal which accompanies trauma alters the physical process by which the body regulates future affective stimuli in ways that are potentially detrimental to human relationships.

In terms of studies regarding behavioral problems, one extensive meta - analysis of the relationship between sleep deprivation and cognition in school - aged children found a significant increase in behavioral problems in children with shorter sleep duration.25) Additionally, sleep deprivation resulted in a significant increment in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.3In terms of studies regarding behavioral problems, one extensive meta - analysis of the relationship between sleep deprivation and cognition in school - aged children found a significant increase in behavioral problems in children with shorter sleep duration.25) Additionally, sleep deprivation resulted in a significant increment in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.3in school - aged children found a significant increase in behavioral problems in children with shorter sleep duration.25) Additionally, sleep deprivation resulted in a significant increment in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.3in behavioral problems in children with shorter sleep duration.25) Additionally, sleep deprivation resulted in a significant increment in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.3in children with shorter sleep duration.25) Additionally, sleep deprivation resulted in a significant increment in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.3in a significant increment in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.3in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriemotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.3in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriemotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriEmotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriemotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.32)

Furthermore, people with high levels of CU traits (psychopathic personality) have been shown to have three specific cognitive and emotional deficits; a poor conditioned fear response, reduced ability to recognise fear, and deficits in stimulus - reinforcement tasks (see Moul et al. [12] for a review).

This definition emphasizes the importance of more sensitive, responsive, supportive and intellectually stimulating parenting or mature parenting focusing on cognitive, conscious, voluntary control rather than emotional, prompt, involuntary emotional reactivity to environmental stimuli in caregivers.

Through sensitive observation and responses, mothers can facilitate the infant's reactions to internal and external stimuli, and this in turn may help the infant achieve a well - regulated emotional state (Thompson 1994).

Perseverance involves an attentional component where young people need to be able to attend to stimuli for a prolonged period of time to be able to complete a task, and an emotional component where young people need to be able to stay calm and on track when they face challenges and frustrations in completing a task.

Our results are in line with other neuroimaging studies that have found reduced activations to different kinds of affective stimuli within the brain emotional systems in violent adult subjects and in adolescents with conduct disorder.