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decorticate rage

Intense apparent emotion produced by removal of the cortex in dogs

amygdala

temporal lobe structure that has been strongly implicated in emotional functions, especially fear

stress immunisation

phenomenon in which a little stress early in life (in rats) can provide protection from many sorts of stress later in life

brain self-stimulation

Phenomenon in which animals may be trained to perform a particular response in order to receive an electrical stimulation of the brain

alarm reaction, adaptation stage, exhaustion phase

the three stages of the 'general adaptation syndrome'

digitalis

drug that causes heart arrhythmia

fear conditioning

type of experimental procedure in which a neutral stimulus and a noxious stimulus are paired, resulting (eventually) in a fearful reaction to the previously-neutral stimulus when it is presented by itself

polygraph

device that measures numerous parameters of autonomic arousal (popularly known as a 'lie detector')

psychosomatic medicine

Field of study that proposed that specific physiological disorders were attributable to specific personality features (eg. ulcers as a manifestation of oral dependency)

individual response stereotypy

Name for the unique combination of visceral responses to emotional situations that each person shows throughout his or her life (sort of like an emotional "fingerprint")

psychoneuroimmunology

name of the field of study concerned with neural regulation of the immune system and the importance of psychological variables in this process

medial forebrain bundle

Large fiber tract running from the midbrain to the hypothalamus, which contains many sites that support brain self-stimulation

Klüver-Bucy Syndrome

Name for a constellation of symptoms that emerge when both temporal lobes (especially the amygdala) have been damaged; symptoms include hyperorality, hypersexuality, and tameness