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      Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions.

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          In a series of [15O]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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          Journal
          Nat Neurosci
          Nature neuroscience
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          1097-6256
          1097-6256
          Oct 2000
          : 3
          : 10
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Neurology (Division of Cognitive Neuroscience) and PET Imaging Center, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. antonio-damasio@uiowa.edu
          Article
          10.1038/79871
          11017179
          33ca1827-e583-465e-9c1e-24039064c132
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