PSYCH261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Cortisol, Botulinum Toxin
28 Nov 2015
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Creating certain body actions may slightly influence emotion. Smiling (can change your own emotional evaluation/personal feeling of something) Paralyzed people (autonomic responses still intact, muscles paralyzed) Pure autonomic failure (do not feel stress when most of us would feel stressful in certain situations) Mobius syndrome (still feel emotion but cannot portray it through facial expressions) Normal people (body already knows that when they are reaching for the bad decks, the cards are from the bad decks) Patients with prefrontal lesions (do not show skin response before picking from the bad deck but they do after making the card pick) Patients with amygdala lesions (do not show skin response before or after, no emotional response) Ethical decision making (trolley dilemmas prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus + amygdala responses damage to these areas, more likely to kill the one person than the 5) Attack behaviours (increased activity in corticomedial area of the amygdala.
