Neuroimaging helps to clarify brain affective processing without necessarily clarifying emotions

Title: Neuroimaging helps to clarify brain affective processing without necessarily clarifying emotions
Creator: Walla, Peter; Panksepp, Jaak
Relation: Novel Frontiers of Advanced Neuroimaging p. 93-118
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/51761
Publisher: InTech
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: Literally, Neuroimaging gives us deeper insight into the brain's function. But, what actually is its function? The brain is an organ, almost just as our lungs and hearts. The big difference is that we can see the imprints of evolutionary progressions in its organization. Although the stamp of evolution is clearly imprinted in the genes that govern the functions of all the other organs, that stamp is special within the brain. Brain functions that evolved earlier are concentrated in more caudal and medial regions of the brain while those that emerged later (eg., neocortex) are concentrated more rostrally and laterally. Thus, although our brain is an organ like no other in the body, we should envision the mind as largely the product of this bodily organ, although mind is surely not disconnected from other bodily functions.
Subject: neuroimaging; brain; evolution; emotions
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054390
Identifier: uon:15741
Identifier: ISBN:9789535109235
Language: eng
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