A number of studies have reported impaired facial emotion recognition following subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation in Parkinson's disease (PD), and have related these changes to a limbic dysfunction induced by STN stimulation. The present study examined the effect of STN stimulation in PD patients on a specific component of emotion, namely the subjective experience of emotion. Thirteen post-...

background: personality disorders can play an important role in suicidal ideation and positive and negative emotion of students. the present study investigated the relationship between personality disorders with suicidal ideation and positive and negative emotion of students. methods: this study is a correlational one in which 498 students of islamic azad university of kermanshah were selected ...

background: chemical weapon victims are suffering from physical difficulties and psychological trainings may help to decrease these problems. the purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness and emotion regulation training on physical and psychological well-being in chemical weapon victims. methods: an experimental, pre-post and follow-up study designed. forty seven ...

Recent findings associate attachment insecurity (assessed as levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance) with poor emotion regulation. In turn, emotion regulation has been shown to be associated with hippocampus (HC) functioning and structure. Clinical disorders such as depression and PTSD, which have been previously associated with attachment insecurity, are also known to be linked with reduce...

Building upon the social emotion model (Smith, 1999), we examined the combined impact of categorization context and social identification on emotional reactions and behavioural tendencies of people confronted with the victims of harmful behaviour. Depending on conditions, participants were led to categorize the victims and themselves in the same common group or in two distinct subgroups of the ...

Music conveys emotions by means of pitch, rhythm, loudness, and many other musical qualities. It was recently confirmed that timbre also has direct association with emotion, for example, that a horn is perceived as sad and a trumpet heroic in even isolated instrument tones. As previous work has mainly focused on sustaining instruments such as bowed strings and winds, this paper presents an expe...

The authors present an overview of the neural bases of emotion. They underscore the role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala in 2 broad approach- and withdrawal-related emotion systems. Components and measures of affective style are identified. Emphasis is given to affective chronometry and a role for the PFC in this process is proposed. Plasticity in the central circuitry of emotion is...