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The archaeology of mind: neuroevolutionary origins of human emotions

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Norton Series on Interpersonal NeurobiologyPublication details: New York W. W. Norton & Company 2012Description: xxvii, 562 pISBN:
  • 9780393705317
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4 P2A7
Summary: A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered them. What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach—which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share—to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It reveals—for the first time—the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional feelings. Contents: 1. Ancestral Passions 2. The Evolution of Affective Consciousness: Studying Emotional Feelings in Other Animals 3. The SEEKING System: Brain Sources of Eager Anticipation, Desire, Euphoria, and the Quest for Everything 4. The Ancestral Sources of RAGE 5. The Ancestral Roots of Fear 6. Beyond Instincts: Learning and the Affective Foundations of Memory 7. LUSTful Passions of the Mind From Reproductive Urges to Romantic Love 8. Nurturing Love: The CARE System 9. Born to Cry: The PANIC/GRIEF System and the Genesis of Life-Sustaining Social Bonds 10. PLAYful Dreamlike Circuits of the Brain: The Ancestral Sources of Social Joy and Laughter 11. Toward a Neurobiology of the Soul: The Core-SELF and the Genesis of Primary-Process Feelings 12. Brain Emotional Systems and Affective Qualities of Mental Life: From Animal Affects to Human Psychotherapeutics 13. Philosophical Reflections and Complaints: Can We Go From Mice to Men and Back Again? (http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=9443)
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A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered them.
What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach—which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share—to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It reveals—for the first time—the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional feelings.

Contents:
1. Ancestral Passions
2. The Evolution of Affective Consciousness: Studying Emotional Feelings in Other Animals
3. The SEEKING System: Brain Sources of Eager Anticipation, Desire, Euphoria, and the Quest for Everything
4. The Ancestral Sources of RAGE
5. The Ancestral Roots of Fear
6. Beyond Instincts: Learning and the Affective Foundations of Memory
7. LUSTful Passions of the Mind From Reproductive Urges to Romantic Love
8. Nurturing Love: The CARE System
9. Born to Cry: The PANIC/GRIEF System and the Genesis of Life-Sustaining Social Bonds
10. PLAYful Dreamlike Circuits of the Brain: The Ancestral Sources of Social Joy and Laughter
11. Toward a Neurobiology of the Soul: The Core-SELF and the Genesis of Primary-Process Feelings
12. Brain Emotional Systems and Affective Qualities of Mental Life: From Animal Affects to Human Psychotherapeutics
13. Philosophical Reflections and Complaints: Can We Go From Mice to Men and Back Again?
(http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=9443)

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