Mapping emotions on the body



: Nummenmaa Lauri

Publisher: De Gruyter

: 2022

: Scandinavian Journal of Pain

: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PAIN

: SCAND J PAIN

: 22

: 4

: 667

: 669

: 3

: 1877-8860

: 1877-8879

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2022-0087

: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2022-0087

: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/177014503


Emotions are allostatic processes that transform the relationship between the environment and the desired bodily states into behaviour supporting homeostasis and well-being. Central emotion circuits are thus tightly coupled with the visceral signaling pathways and the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Although ANS activity patterns are not always emotion-specific, self-reported bodily sensations and pattern recognition analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data suggest discrete bodily and neural basis of emotions. The advent of total-body positron emission tomography (PET) systems allows simultaneous measurement of the central and peripheral axis of the emotional response. This provides a unique opportunity for quantifying the systems-level biology of the human emotion circuits.

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