Stress emotions aggression lecture

Low Road and High road

The lwo road is the process of getting to the thalamus (seeing a snake like thing and jumping)

The high road is it having gone through the thalamus and processed (realizing its a toy snake and being less scared)

Disgust

Activates the insula (Guilt does aswell)

Anterior cingulate gyrus

Responds to emotional pain can be seen in harm avoidence

Empathy

I feel what your feeling

Prefrontal cortex is what?

The prefrontal cortex si the final destination for the brains info about emotion BEFore action is taken

What does the prefrontal cortex judge

Our behavior and its consequences (people who sustain damage early in life never learn punishment avoided rules)

in the frotnal lobe (for emtoion) what side is used for a behavioral approach

Left frotnal activation (anger and joy are here)

Which frontal lobe is used for behavioral withdrawal

Right frontal activation (emotions regulated are rear and sadness)

Right is more active during what? left hemisphere is more active during what

negative, positive

Left side of the face is controlled by what

Right hemispehere making the left side mroe expressive than the right face.

Hemispheres differ in recognition fo emotions in vocal messages

Right hemisphere identifies emotional tone

Left hemisphere interprets meaning of the message

stress response activates the sympathertic nervous sytem under what control?

Hypothalamic control

What does the adrenal cortex do during stress (its right about yoru kindeys)

Secrets cortisol

What does the adrenal medulla do during stress

releases epinephrine and Norepinephrine

Cortisol

stress hormone that increases blood glucose and breaks down protein ( released by the adrenal cortex)

Epinephrine and nonrepinephrine

Binds to the Beta receptors to boost heart rate and other

The hypothalmus and pituitary stimulate adreanls to relase?

Epinephrine and norepinephrine

Chronic stress

can interfer with memory appetitie sexual desire and performance along with depletes energy and disrupts mood increases body inflimmation and compormies the immune system

2 mechanisms of aciton but same calming goal

Beta blockers prevent activation fo the sympathetic response

Vogues nerve stimulation activates the parasympathetic response

What is a common occureneces in vertans with ptsd and childhood truama

frontal cortex and hippocampal volume is reduced

Agression is anger twords other people

Justified agression is anger twords kids o

its proactive in your case

proactivily attack kids

Serotonin

Inhibits aggression

Murderess have higher activity of the ,and lower activity in?

amygdala and hypothalamus

The prefrontal cortex