The Neuroscience of Emotions 

Google people thanks for sharing this series with all of us ..you guys have access to the best of the best ..not people I have connections to .I feel very grateful .

I've watched literally thousands of you tube videos as I have a thirst for knowledge. I would love to see this very interesting video fed into the artificial intelligence programme GPT3 and also feed in as many of the known brain wave frequencies and corresponding stages of mind to just see what comes back out. This video is just the tip of a very big and cool iceberg that will benefit us humans for the next thousand years. Thank you for an honest and constructive dip into the pool of the human psyche...from an old geezer who has always thought outside of not only the proverbial box but also inside the atoms that are ABSOLUTELY everywhere.

Yes, everyone can change. It took a little time for me to get past the fear of not feeling something. But, Ive been reading and watching all of these wellness, but past life events and not completely going thru them correctly.

A comprehensive snap shot of Neuroscience of Emotions with great Q&A. I like his Q&A scepticism and interest at the same time.

Excellent presentation and information. Thank you!

this is brilliant ! He is a very good and clear speaker ! I love the information, and it fits in with my own focusing and mindfulness practise.

I understood everything. Very well explained. And I have already done all of the things they talked about. These ideas are ingrained into many strategies we pick up over time. I feel bad for people who think they cannot change their brain. Mine has transformed. And it is still being trained. I hope more people learn to train their brain. There are equal strategies into what the point of all of this is. The point is overall becoming better. Other strategies limitless. There is a limitless amount of strategies to become better. And this information here makes it easier to imagine and grab those strategies.

This would go right along with the Emotion Code and Body Code....Healing through unblocking the trapped Emotions in the body and different ways to find the trapped Emotion to Heal. After the Emotion is found by way of sway test or pendulum, it is then relieved from the body with a strong magnet, running it along the cranium meridian and down the spine to the tail bone. From the middle of the brows up and over the head to the middle of the base of the neck and down the spine. Excellent Modale

@JustSomePerson888 Thanks. It has been thought that emotions and thinking happen in the brain. But our nervous system is open. All information flows all over our body and brain. For health both spiritual and physical, I would say that self love and care are more important than surroundings. Anger and fear are concentrated forms of self love and need to be included.

what follows is a very intuitive reaction. As the man with long hair pointed to, while asking his question at 55:46 : " what about memories ?" It is a secular idea, that remembering the past can help us to avoid making mistakes. This is a basic routine used by life to evolve. An other basic componant necessary to any organism and even for an artificial neural network, is FEEDBACK.

Excellent, thank you!

When he says the pre-frontal cortex regulates, is he also referring to the medial pre-frontal cortex and the vetromedial pre-frontal cortex as well?

(1) what follows is a very intuitive reaction. As the man with long hair pointed to, while asking his question at 55:46 : " what about memories ?" It is a secular idea, that remembering the past can help us to avoid making mistakes. This is a basic routine used by life to evolve. An other basic componant necessary to any organism and even for an artificial neural network, is FEEDBACK.

Emotions are reactions that are breed evolutionary. They weave an important aspect of our being and conscience. Our sense of meaning and purpose

Quite educational!!!!! thank u very much!!!

One thing that was not mentioned was that our emotional states directly impact which circuits are activated from modulatory resources that originate from the brain stem. For example, Acetylcholine is produced primarily in the hypothalamus.

Well. That was sufficiently interesting. Thanks for uploading it, Google. c:

Thank you

This is a good presentation, impressive and educative!

Amazing presentation.. learned a lot.

Dr. Phillippe's point about the *difference* between the "therapeutic" intervention via cognitive therapy (language-based) and meditative practices (mental-awareness-based) is quite interesting. Physical exercise (bodily-awareness-based) is another interventional method mentioned. All three share the intervention on behavior and identification/assumption of cause in self-control (c.f. ability to "monitor" aspects of mental states). Does this self-cause figure essentially into realm of beliefs?

Thank you wonderful presentation, I am trying to find help for HAAND due to HAART from living with HIV for more than 20 years. I have been in many of the clinical studies of HIV medications in Dallas.

Really excellent talk!

Investigating the brain & emotions is important but the body is equally if not more important. Memory and emotion are stored in the muscles. Body is the container and sustainer of our whole life system. Body has consciousness and emotions as well. When you are extra tired or hungry your emotions and voice changes. Body based emotions is a big deal. Also the unseen roll of denial " of emotions " needs much more light and investigation. Denial has a more powerful effect than known emotions.

I like the emphasis on 14:25 "ALOT of statistical processing" :)

I would argue that these are not "opposing" views, but instead complement each other by describing different mechanisms that determine brain structure. The reality of all science, but brain science in particular, is that any model is a gross over-simplification of reality. The genetic basis of cognitive mechanisms cannot be denied, but no genetic algorithm can allow for complexities of life and the specific needs of the individual, so adaptive mechanisms are also built in.

Exelent! conratulations Best regards from Italy

How do i increase or change my intrapersonal intelligence. Why am i always depressed, why don't i have motivation. I can be content, feel love, and one hour later be the opposite. I am so in love with a woman and cannot seem to be stable in..expressing myself or caring for myself. or her. i cant really even explain this now...but i love her, how can i change?!

@Shockadinkiller727 I agree with you. They are doing phenomenal study and research that will help our world better for humanity.

A great condensed primer into the neuroscience of emotion, especially the first 30 mins. As to the last part, the gene apparently isn't as selfish as Sir Dawkins told us. ;-)

@JustSomePerson888 In the philosophy of consciousness, "sentience" can refer to the ability of any entity to have subjective perceptual experiences. This is distinct from other aspects of the mind and consciousness, such as creativity, intelligence, sapience, self-awareness, and intentionality (the ability to have thoughts that mean something or are "about" something). Sentience is a minimalistic way of defining "consciousness. Do you eat plants or animal products I wonder?

Awesome Video! People always used to say I am an emotional fool and I really wanted to know my erratic emotions, so i used an iPhone app called "emotional" by hanumappa which showed me all my dominant emotions and in percentage wise! and It also helped me to know more about these emotions and helped me get out of it!

thanks for this

You may want to look for Dan Dennett on youtube, His works on memes 'units of mimicry' is related and is perhaps able to tie some of the questions you ask .

soo useful, thanks guys

fMRI is not completely non-invasive because it uses a contrast medium, albeit one with very few serious adverse events.

Brilliant -

@JustSomePerson888 I checked your page. You are cool. Keep banging that drum. Morphic fields are real but slow. Respect

@zabelicious : Don't you have the feeling that assimilate instinct and intuition is an easy and reductive explanation ? ...hard to think for me that my cognition process comes from my animal past :-).

Great video

Congratulations, this is very good. Danza Duende - Yumma Mudra

Not sure about his promotion of CBT, the results of which can vanish withing 6- 8 months latter. I dont think it is the 'gold standard'. But I do agree that mindfulness ( and focusing) can roduce higher emotional intellegance, and processing of emotional issues, also produces long term changes in the brain.

Gr8 presentation...:)

@cmpresents Some of it for sure!

amazing

It seems that a more Physiological presentation can be present for me to understand .I like the little Metabolism Glucose section in the Orbital Frontal Cortex and the Igloo Fire story .#Remote sensing .Septo-Plasty USA> Veteran

Can consider the Still, Soft Voice a new development of inner awareness ~ finding, being in touch and coming from our Inner Core--the still, soft inner place and voice. ... Utilizing a psychoanalytic approach (vs. theory) was mentioned, a "floating awareness" on the part of the pt & therapist. My work with the inner core involves an underlying analysis & an aim towards psycho integration. Intention is critical. Would love to check these all out in terms of the neurological. -Dr.Cliff Brickman

For more information on the Biological basis: Goldin, P., Ramel, W., & Gross, J. J. (2009). Mindfulness meditation training and self-referential processing in social anxiety disorder: Behavioral and neural effects. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 23, 242-257. Jafar Bakhshaie

The conversation in here is CRAZY. I thought I came to watch a video about the brain. |x.x|

This should be analyzed opposite Pinker's concept of innate/inborn traits (genetic and of brain structures). The recently popular neuroplasticity arguments are exciting and definitely worth studying, but so is the opposing views. That's why I was a bit surprised when speaker was asked about doubts, and he didn't doubt that all of this works, he just worried about which tool/approach is best used with which person. I wish someone would just clearly explain where the borders of opposing views are!

Points to be raised? Do they need to be raised? Are they beneficial? Or are they negative in content and in your case, insulting. Why do you need to insult someone? The whole point of EQ, Mindfulness, etc, is to be aware of context and rather than building negative walls to not build and accept the scenery.

Please type "True Theory of Everything Quadrant Model of Reality 1" for the theory of everything. Thank you.

You change by putting in immense effort! There are so many reasons why someone might be depressed. There is depression based on genetics and other depression caused by events, or sometimes a mix. Most people are bad at setting boundaries (i.e. they let people walk on them. Saying yes too often can be an issue). Also look up 'cognitive distortions'. Learn to connect with your emotions. Check out a mindfulness course (Jon Kabat-Zinn). Keep improving every day. It gets better.

Imagination, memory and mythology have more of an influence on emotion than real world events. These are not real or true but effect us as if they were true. A dog rushes at you and you jump away. This is real. You have a heart attack on monday at 7:30am because you fear your boss with an ax. This is not real but extremely powerful. Death from imagination and mythology.

I am totally watching this later

(4) All that follows a generalised lack of courage to face contradiction, and argue in a rational manner. If each time you face opposition, you desappear and go meditate... the all system is going to evolve much much much slower... It sounds too easy, to act this way, when you experience real injustice, and that the reaction of a courageous one, would be to say what you think to the person who deserve a lesson ( for exemple).

Interesting. with ADHD I seem to not be able to to take the time to understand others, but I attempt to estimate or guess their response and impulsively respond to it.

some of the face pictures of emotions made me laugh hella hard LOL

I have a degree in biopsychology and I understand the neuroscience behind emotions. I know what parts of the brain get activated in a variety of situations but the truth is, each of us experience our environment according to different rules because of our past. We learn from past experience whether we are aware of it or not. God doesn't not exist so that is not even an issue here. Have you heard of a conscience? The frontal lobe is a more crucial component to pay attention to in my opinion.

What psychotherapies get wrong, demonstrated by a simple recipe for happiness and the neuroscience of affect. Essential to all psychotherapies is the principle that core affect (feeling bad or good) is dependent upon restructuring what one thinks about, or the ‘normative’ aspects of experience. However, for the field of affective neuroscience, core affect is instead dependent upon ‘how’ one thinks, or the ‘abstract’ aspects of experience. If this is true, then the personal control of positive affect can effectively bypass psycho-therapeutic interventions and make ‘happiness’ simply a matter of rearranging abstract aspects of one’s perceptual world. The virtue of this approach is its simplicity, predictive power, and testability, so it has a low shelf life if wrong. An exemplar of this is a ‘recipe for happiness’ proposed below. In affective neuroscience, it is well known that behaviors that involve continuous high and positive act/outcome discrepancy (gaming, gambling, creative work) correspond to elevated dopaminergic activity and a feeling of arousal, but not pleasure. However, for many individuals engaging in similar activity, a feeling of pleasure is also reported, but only when their covert musculature is inactive (i.e., a state or rest). Because relaxation activates opioid systems, and tension inhibits them, it is postulated that dopaminergic activity stimulates opioid activity, but only during resting states. This hypothesis can be easily tested and is described in greater detail below. If correct, it will demonstrate for the first time that elevated and sustained arousal and pleasure, or ‘eudaemonia’ or ‘happiness’ can be induced easily through simple modifications of abstract perceptual properties of behavior that anyone can easily do throughout the day. THE CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT OF POSITIVE AFFECT AFFECT AND MOTIVATION Opioid and dopamine systems represent bundles of neurons or ‘nuclei’ in the mid brain that are respectively responsible for the affective states of pleasure and attentive arousal, and sub-serve the neural processes that govern motivation. OPIOID AND DOPAMINE SYSTEMS ARE ACTIVATED BY DIFFERENT STIMULI EITHER VIRTUAL (COGNITIVE) OR REAL Eating and drinking, having sex, and relaxing or resting all activate opioid systems, whereas the anticipation or experience of positive act-outcome discrepancy (or positive surprises or meaning) activate dopamine systems. OPIOID AND DOPAMINE SYSTEMS CAN CO-ACTIVATE EACH OTHER Taking our pleasures increases our attentive arousal, and increasing our attentive arousal accentuates our pleasure. If these systems are concurrently activated both are accentuated or affectively ‘bootstrapped’, as both pleasure and attentive arousal will be higher due to their synergistic effects. OPIOID AND DOPAMINE SYSTEMS CAN BE CO-ACTIVATED THROUGH THE ARRANGEMENT OF SPECIFIC ACT-OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES OR RESPONSE CONTINGENCIES As characterized by the well documented ‘flow response’ (pp.82-86), consistently applied contingencies that elicit pleasurable resting states and consistent attentive arousal result in self-reports of heightened pleasure and energy. This emotional experience can be easily replicated by simultaneously applied contingencies that elicit rest (mindfulness protocols) and meaning (imminent productive behavior and its uniform positive implications). To achieve complete rest and accentuate positive affect, these contingencies must be applied for periods of at least a half hour or more. Just as one sets meditative sessions to last for a set time period and frequency to be effective, so mindfulness and meaning sessions must be similarly arranged, with cumulative sessions if possible charted to provide proper feedback of efficacy. Finally, the intensity of positive affect will scale to the importance or salience of moment to moment meaningful behavior, with the more meaningful the task the higher the pleasurable affect. IMPLICATIONS Affect is as much an aspect of how information is arranged as what information is, or the abstract rather than normative properties of behavior. It follows that as a positively affective state, happiness is not just a product of what we think, but how we think, and derives not only from our pleasures but also from our incentives. Positive incentives can accentuate those very pleasures that we wish to maximize, and conversely, associated pleasure will increase the ‘appetitive value’ or ‘liking’ of incentives (or in other words, increase the value of productive work), and all sustained by simple choices within our grasp, as is ultimately happiness itself. I offer a more detailed explanation in pp. 47-52, and pp 82-86 of my open source book on the neuroscience of resting states, ‘The Book of Rest’, linked below. www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing This above book is based on the research of the distinguished neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, a preeminent researcher and authority on dopamine, addiction, and motivation, who was kind to vet the work for accuracy and endorse the finished manuscript. Berridge’s Site sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/ also: Meditation and Rest from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation

Interesting

"Inside Out" brought me here ;)

@valeryschful Have you heard of the Evolution Theory? All cognitive processes have evolved from the way human have learned to communicate and use their cognitive skills (which can be traced to an enlargement of the brain per se also due to development of ever increasing neural connections and refinement of cognitive functions). However, this can all come to an end when there is severe trauma and impedement of so called normal developmental processes because too busy to survive and self-protect.

One thought at a time.

Wow....

veery good

It's impossible to comment specifically about this because it's so on the wrong track in so many different ways. But let's try an intuitive ("emotional" if you like . . .) appreciation of it anyway. Tell me: does this guy give you the impression that he himself has any personal insight, from his own experience, into what he's talking about? Or does he give the impression, instead, that he's just repeating a lot of stuff that he's picked up and re-arranged from somewhere else?

is that something new?

Why can't it be both?

Um why would six people dislike what lots of research has shown us to be our truth as a human being? How can you dislike what others have taken the time to discover and understand what doesn't come natural to our understanding of life? If anything everyone should be glad that there are others taking the time to understand and figure out what we don't take the time to... Those six people are either immature, unfortunate to click the wrong button OR religious.

@zabelicious I agree with you that this information has very little useless but this is science. Science is anything that shows to be systematically arranged and laws of operations. So it is science. Do you watch TV or movies? Do you maybe feel emotions during watching a movie, why are you feeling those emotions? Those things didnt happen to you. difference between prayer and mediation (I dont do either.) Prayer is directly dependant on an external power (God) Meditation is internal (Yourself)

And from a personal standpoint, after wasting years on things like cognitive therapy, have only had results after using true neuroscience techniques. If you think you are going to "think" your way in or out of any situation, you are basically joking. Read the book: Brain Lock by Brian Swartz of the UCLA neurological center.

excellent talk! would disagree with his definition of compassion though. his definition is more of a superficial kind of compassion aimed at relieving suffering. a deeper aspect of compassion is better defined as the deep desire to support another in staying with the truth of their experience. that kind of compassion CAN offer some relief to suffering because of the support. but that is not its ultimate aim.

I meant comes "mainly" from my animal past ....

brilliant talk to a dim group

Supervenience is finally being sorted out by Science. Go Science

What you call cognition is just the human's way to adapt their understanding of what reality is, with language within a cultural, sociological or even religious context. Animals don't have feelings per se, they can have fear, hunger and sexual drives but it's all instinctual. Animals don't need God and don't meditate...Nature takes care of things.

philip goldin

28:24 9:20 10:43 18:20

My emotions are telling me that I really can't be bothered to watch this video for over an hour... I do respect this video honestly, but right now I got other things to do... otherwise my Fiancee's emotions are going to be really dangerous

(3) And i am quit shure that the emerging conscious of humanity, would not be abble to evolve, if basic fonctions like feedbacks, and memories, are not implemented... And i am quit shure that the emerging conscious of humanity, would not be abble to evolve, if basic fonctions like feedbacks, and memories, are not implemented...

SIX EXPRESSIONS??? THERE'S SEVEN....He forgot "Contempt".

If Golden claims to know exactly what emotion is and can define it , then we could start to debate "how many emotions" there are! .For over 2000 years there has been no universally accepted definition of emotion Ongoing speculation from such as Dennett, Damasio add other observations do little to distinguish emotion (as process and subjective experience) from, instincts, moods and behavior arising from emotional impact. Let them first define what they are speculating about...

@Richardb21 Chill out mate! have another look what i actually wrote! now who's negative?

pretty good talk

55:11

That's one introduction 😂

52:52

0:16:00 Unless you're a psychopath.

google saying "don't be evil" is like saying "read a book" or "brush your teeth"

51:31

23:20

If everyone who has already commented on this video had to take an IQ test before commenting, 90% of the comments would not be here. Based on their comments, it is clear to me, they should have been trolling in the children's interests section of this website.

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I know some good therapists. You'd obviously benefit from it.

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I wonder why there are 11 dislikes. I don't think there should be any at all. This is a very well done presentation.

Oh, and dont mind GiGi ... That's an Obvious PseudoSkeptic Alert. They make me smile ... And then sigh =/