Teenagers who play violent video games may display increased activity in areas of the brain associated
with emotional arousal, according to research from the Indiana University School of Medicine, located in Indianapolis.
Not exact matches
They include the light from our screens interfering
with our circadian rhythms, social media promoting «
emotional or cognitive
arousal» that keeps us up, or simply people putting off going to bed to play just one more round of that Facebook game or post another pic on Instagram.
It is probably true that the
arousal of passion is more closely linked
with emotional factors in many women than in many men.
With their five - month - olds, mothers typically played face - to - face and coordinated tiny, little interactions at a low - to - medium level of
emotional arousal.
On one side, we have those who believe bedsharing allows for greater infant
arousals, increases mom's awareness of her baby, helps babies by providing them
with close comfort during the night, allows for easier breastfeeding, allows everyone in the family to sleep better, has long - term social and
emotional benefits for baby, and can be done safely for baby.
«I was surprised by the specificity of the results, that the
emotional memory improvement was specifically for the negative and high -
arousal memories, and the ramifications of these results for people
with anxiety disorders and PTSD,» Mednick said.
«It's well established that
emotional arousal enhances memory consolidation, and it's widely assumed that this may contribute to PTSD, but the finding is important as it provides genetic evidence consistent
with that hypothesis.»
Gruesome pictures lead to increasing
emotional arousal in viewers,
with the emotions experienced including anger, fear, anxiety and disgust.
While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit more
emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients
with mood disorders.
Second languages used extensively in an immersion context are subjectively experienced as
emotional and elicit autonomic responding consistent
with the subjective report of
emotional arousal.
It's possible that we learn from the
arousal signal...
with less
emotional arousal, perhaps I'm less likely to see the act as incongruent
with my own self perception.»
That may be because lying triggers
emotional arousal and activates the amygdala, but
with each additional lie, the
arousal and conflict of telling an untruth diminishes, making it easier to lie.
Using the neurochemical specificity of [11C] raclopride positron emission tomography scanning, combined
with psychophysiological measures of autonomic nervous system activity, we found endogenous dopamine release in the striatum at peak
emotional arousal during music listening.
One has to do
with how much
emotional arousal is being expressed, and the other one has to do
with how spouses ask for change.
Marking is a form of communication which can be associated
with a heightened state of
emotional arousal or stress in the cat.
In 2006, a small study by Indiana University found that teenagers who played violent video games showed higher levels of
emotional arousal, but less activity in the parts of the brain associated
with the ability to plan, control and direct thoughts and behavior.
Anxiety disorders are characterized by
emotional arousal associated
with fear, worry, or nervousness that is out of proportion to the situation.
Question: In children and adolescents
with mood or anxiety disorders, is antidepressant use associated
with symptoms of excessive
emotional arousal or behavioural activation?
Interestingly, erotic pictures can be sexually arousing for both men and women when the pictures contain an element of
emotional arousal, such as
with passionate love.3 In my case, I had not even met the Premature Sexter.
I would also suggest that your next article about the female orgasm should certainly, as Clea mentions, include some discussion of the fact that one of the major differences between the male and female orgasm (and in fact, between male and female readiness for sex, or degree of
arousal, in general) is that
emotional states seem to be much more important (which is not at all the same as saying that women don't like casual sex or can't be aroused by one - night stands, if that happens to be the
emotional situation they are comfortable
with).
Trait anxiety refers to stable individual differences in propensity for anxiety proneness whereas state anxiety is a transitory
emotional reaction that is characterized by subjective feelings of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry; and is associated
with physiological
arousal.
In contrast areas of the right hemisphere associated
with emotional states and autonomic
arousal, especially the amygdala, which is the centre for detecting threat light up.
The amygdala is associated
with arousal and reactions to threatening stimuli, as well as
emotional learning and memory.
API advocates for practices that are dedicated to the physical and
emotional safety of infants as well as long term health of all children; that empower parents to be educated on infant sleep,
arousal, and breathing; and for decisions that are based in accurate data and compatible
with biological needs.
There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that individuals
with high interoceptive awareness experience more
emotional arousal, for the same objective bodily
arousal, than people
with low interoceptive awareness [56]--[60].
Animal research also makes clear that withdrawing parental behaviours that fail to soothe the infant's fearful
arousal are associated
with enduring hyper -
arousal of the stress response system.12, 13 Therefore, Lyons - Ruth, Bronfman and Atwood suggest that both fearful affect generated by the parent and fearful affect generated from other sources in the context of parental
emotional unavailability may contribute to infant disorganization.14, 15 A spectrum of parental behaviours has been shown by meta - analysis to be associated
with infant disorganization.
With the Minipally program, we propose to intervene even earlier (i.e. with preschoolers in child care services) on psychosocial functioning and on stress regulation, as the ability to manage emotional arousal and to make meaningful friendship is an important aspect of children's optimal developm
With the Minipally program, we propose to intervene even earlier (i.e.
with preschoolers in child care services) on psychosocial functioning and on stress regulation, as the ability to manage emotional arousal and to make meaningful friendship is an important aspect of children's optimal developm
with preschoolers in child care services) on psychosocial functioning and on stress regulation, as the ability to manage
emotional arousal and to make meaningful friendship is an important aspect of children's optimal development.
Early childhood educational programs that effectively link
emotional and motivational
arousal with activities designed to exercise and promote executive functions can be effective in enhancing self - regulation, school readiness, and school success.
Emotional arousal (BSKE - EA, Janke et al., 1988) in women (n = 23) and men (n = 23)
with intranasal OT, or women (n = 24) and men (n = 24)
with placebo, following the 10 - min conflict discussion.
In line
with this,
emotional arousal was positively correlated
with increases in sAA (r = 0.286, P = 0.028) and
with more positive observed behavior during couple conflict (r = 0.291, P = 0.026) in men.
Some areas that sex therapy can address are desire discrepancies within a couple, development & deepening of
emotional and sexual intimacy,
arousal and desire concerns, difficulties
with climax, emerging sexual identities, socio - cultural factors associated
with sexuality, open relationships, extra-marital affairs & infidelity, diversity of sexual expression, cybersexuality, sexual trauma, abuse & rape, sexual dysfunction such as difficulty establishing or maintaining an erectile and painful sex.
Specifically, parental active and passive co-regulation and overall scaffolding have important relations to child externalizing problems, and interventions for children
with ASD targeting emotion regulation should encourage parents to use scaffolding techniques when their child is exhibiting anger or overly
emotional arousal.
It might be hypothesized that decreased
emotional arousal in women and increased
emotional arousal along
with more positive behavior in response to OT in men might help couples to overcome the above - described demand / withdraw patterns and possibly improve relationship satisfaction in the long term.
Some common issues that sex therapy can address are libido discrepancies within a couple, development & deepening of
emotional and sexual intimacy,
arousal and desire concerns, difficulties
with climax, open relationships, extra-marital affairs & infidelity, sexual trauma, abuse & rape, sexual dysfunction such as difficulty establishing or maintaining an erection and painful sex.
Our results imply sex - specific effects of oxytocin on sympathetic activity, to negative couple interaction,
with the neuropeptide reducing sAA responses and
emotional arousal in women while increasing them in men.
Subsequently, we tested whether OT increased
emotional arousal during / following conflict, which might, in turn, be associated
with higher sympathetic activity specifically in men.
In adolescence, both typically developing youth and those
with ASD report similar levels of adaptive, voluntary forms of emotion regulation (e.g., problem solving,
emotional control), but those
with ASD report higher levels of involuntary emotion regulation strategies that are generally considered to be maladaptive (e.g., rumination, intrusive thoughts, physiological and
emotional arousal, mind going blank and numb)(Mazefsky et al. 2014).