Neurophysiology of Emotions (original) (raw)

2011

Abstract

Emotions embody goal-directed behavior for survival and adaptation through the perception of variations in the environment. At a physiological level, emotions consist of three complementary components: Physical sensation, emotional expression and subjective experience. At the level of anatomical structures though, trying to segregate distinct components is impossible. Our emotions are resulting products of compatible and coordinated cortical and sub-cortical neural mechanisms originating from several anatomical structures. In this chapter, an overview of the three physiological components and underlying anatomical constructs will be presented.

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