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Name major components of limbic system and the function of the limbic system in emotion
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Major components
-Hypothalamus -Cingulate cortex -prefrontal cortex -insular cortex |
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Hypothalamus
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-main source of hormonal regulation (neuroendocrine)
-motivational control (hunger, thirst, sex) |
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Amygdala
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-Crucial to emotion
-Sends outputs to many subcortical structures that control and recognise emotional arousal |
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Cingulate cortex
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-Controls fine movement and in the eye
-Perception of pain both physical and emotional |
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Insula Cortex
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Perceptions of gustatory - taste, illness and mental disgust
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Depression
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Overwhelmingly seen as a 'monoamine' disease
Persistent affective disorder |
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Treating depression
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-Drugs that increase synaptic 5HT, NA or/ DA
-Must take for 2 week, only works for 37% -Re-uptake inhibitors -Monoamine oxidise inhibitors |
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Depression strongly linked to anxiety and stress
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Increased use of serotonetgic reuptake inhibitors
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Mesolimbic dopamine system
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Important for motivation of behaviour:
-Increases reward/pleasure seeking behaviour -Not the 'experience' of pleasure -Repeat pleasurable experiences - reinforcement |
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Addiction
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Can lead to a loss of control over pleasure seeking
-Individuals will learn to discriminate the situations which certain behaviours will lead to -Discriminative stimuli |
