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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 3, Issue 10, Pages 1049-1056Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/79871
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- NIDCD NIH HHS [1 P50 DC 03189-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
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In a series of [O-15]PET experiments aimed at investigating the neural basis of emotion and feeling, 41 normal subjects recalled and re-experienced personal life episodes marked by sadness, happiness, anger or fear. We tested the hypothesis that the process of feeling emotions requires the participation of brain regions, such as the somatosensory cortices and the upper brainstem nuclei, that are involved in the mapping and/or regulation of internal organism states. Such areas were indeed engaged, underscoring the close relationship between emotion and homeostasis. The findings also lend support to the idea that the subjective process of feeling emotions is partly grounded in dynamic neural maps, which represent several aspects of the organism's continuously changing internal state.
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