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And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

physiological basis of emotions (episode 1)

... studies showing the
simultaneous involvement of noradrenergic, opioid
peptidergic and GABAergic systems in the
modulation of memory storage of aversive events
eliciting escape and avoidance...

... cognitive behaviors
(such as certain forms of learning and memory) are
characterized by a highly non-specific set of actions
(some mental) and are subjected to rich and
functionally important neuromodulations...

In experimental settings, ... reflexes can ...
be considered emotion-independent...

...the sight of a tempting water area can amplify
'primary (hypovolemic) thirst'...

... in the same manner as Hebb first proposed that brain
processes were the result of the activation of certain
neural assemblies, the emotional state can be best
seen as patterns of neuromodulation of these
assemblies...

-- http://www.snl.salk.edu/~fellous/pubs/emo.pdf

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