However, not all emotions behave in accordance with this connection. This is the first general study on emotions and more specifically on anger that examines all these different psychobiological parameters cardiovascular, hormonal response and asymmetric activation response of the brain in a single investigation to study the changes caused by the inducement of anger.
In addition the results of the study are along the same lines as previous investigations and defend what has been noted by Darwin: that the emotions, in this case anger, are accompanied by unique and specific psychobiological patterns for each emotion.
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American Psychological Association. Accessed Jan 18, Shivkumar K, et al. Clinical neurocardiology defining the value of neuroscience-based cardiovascular therapeutics. The Journal of Physiology. McMahon SB, et al. He employed positron emission tomography imaging to examine which regions of the brain engage during angry moments. Subjects simulated angry moments by recalling the moments in their lives when they felt rage. The best way to induce emotion is through autobiographical scripts.
During angry recollections, the amygdala fired. At the same time, a part of the orbital frontal cortex, just above the eyes, also engaged, putting the brakes on emotion. In depressed people who are prone to anger attacks, this neurological brake fails to engage. In another study, Dougherty found that in people with major depressive disorder and anger attacks the orbital frontal cortex did not activate.
Rather, activity in the amygdala increased and angry outbursts ensued. Now Dougherty is applying these research techniques to examine what happens in the brain during treatment for anger and depression using drugs or cognitive behavioral therapy to better understand how treatments work mechanistically.
Ultimately he hopes this work will give clinicians better insights into which treatment options might be best for patients. Everyone feels anger. Traffic snarls, unsympathetic colleagues, playground bullies; we all have our triggers. The problems start when anger boils over into hostility and aggression, behaviors that cause harm.
According to research from McLean Hospital, seemingly harmless anger may cause invisible damage to the brains of young children. Martin Teicher, an HMS associate professor of psychiatry at McLean, has found that verbal abuse from parents and peers causes changes in developing brains tantamount to scarring that lasts into adulthood. Teicher began his investigations by examining the effects of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and harsh corporeal punishment on young brains.
In , he turned his attention to parental verbal abuse, finding that verbal abuse had deleterious effects on par with witnessing domestic violence and other seemingly more violent forms of maltreatment. In he used diffusion—tensor magnetic resonance imaging to build an accurate map of the neural connections in the white matter of brains of adults who had experienced parental verbal abuse, but no other forms of abuse, as children.
He found three neural pathways that were disturbed in these adults: the arcuate fasciculus, involved in language processing; part of the cingulum bundle, altered in patients with post—traumatic stress disorder and associated with depression and dissociation; and part of the fornix, linked to anxiety. More recently, Teicher found that peer verbal abuse—whether teasing, belittling, or disparaging words—can cause similar damage.
When experienced during early childhood, verbal abuse can lead to somatization, the translation of emotions into physical illness. During middle school, it can increase the likelihood of drug abuse, anxiety, and depression. In high school, it can lead to increased anger and hostility. Openly expressed negative, raw, and intense emotion is hard for many people to witness and can leave scars.
The result is diminished integrity in these sensory pathways. Teicher is now investigating the effects of witnessing domestic violence. Early findings suggest that all sensory systems may be vulnerable to violence; abuse that is heard may damage regions distinct from those injured by abuse that is seen or felt.
His work as a whole suggests that anger may deserve more attention from psychiatry. Everyone, from children to great—grandparents, uses electronic media, and media use will only grow more pervasive. Yet since the earliest days of television, electronic media has been a blame—taker. In the fifties, people worried that television would turn children into delinquents. Today, parents fear that violent movie scenes and game scenarios will breed anger, aggression, and violence.
These accusations against media, Rich believes, come down to values—based arguments, not scientific evidence.
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