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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation
Published on: August 26, 2011
Concepts and Dysfunctions of Emotion in Neuropsychiatric Research
Zumrut Duygu Sen1, Lejla Colic2, Vanessa Kasties1
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
Abstract:
This chapter aims to provide a perspective of the complex formation of emotion and its operational usage in neuroscience. In the first section, the essence and function of emotion will be introduced from different perspectives. After an overview of historical and ongoing debates in the second section, the neuroscientific findings regarding emotional instances in healthy subjects and psychiatric patients will be outlined throughout the third and fourth sections. In the last section, a comprehensive approach of the newly developing field of computational psychiatry to emotion will be introduced.
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