«The amygdala is known to
process emotional arousal and is hyperactive in BPD.
Not exact matches
As Watson notes, these sessions might well «be too brief to allow for adequate
emotional processing, may increase
arousal and anxiety levels or may inadvertently decrease the likelihood that individuals will pursue more intense interventions.
These areas are implicated in multiple
processes, including
emotional responses,
arousal, aggression and vision, respectively.
The thematic analysis revealed one main theme: Sensing an unconscious and conscious state of mind, and two themes: A sudden
emotional awareness and reflection, and
arousal of conscious thought
processes.
The mind is known to be a factor in stress and stress - related disorders, and meditation has been shown to positively effect a range of autonomic physiological
processes, such as lowering blood pressure and reducing overall
arousal and
emotional reactivity.
Developing self - regulation is further understood to reflect an emerging balance between
processes of
emotional arousal and cognitive regulation.
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.
This definition allows for inclusion of multiple dimensions of emotionally - salient
processes and regulation of these
processes, including but not limited to:
emotional reactivity,
arousal, sympathetic and parasympathetic activity, impulsivity, effortful control, behavioral and
emotional inhibition,
emotional awareness, and features of temperament [e.g., 16, 17, 18 •, 22].