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The relevance of emotions becomes evident when they reach an overwhelming state or when pathological processes alter or interfere with their normal expression and function. Until now, emotion-specific correlates could barely be demonstrated via physiological parameters; however, neuroimaging techniques now pose an option to map and to potentially localize cerebral processes underlying emotional behavior. This is an important milestone, given the influence of emotions on almost all interesting psychological variables (such as memory, behavior, learning, perception, etc.). Moreover, emotion research, due to its difficulty in operationability and accessibility, remains a field that can hardly be examined using objective experimental methods. However, different emotional processes, including emotional experience, emotion recognition, the ability to regulate emotions, emotional learning, and memory processes have been investigated. These emotional components of human behavior will be characterized in detail on the basis of previously published fMRI studies with respect to their neurobiological underpinnings.

Adapted from Derntl B, Schneider F, Habel U (2012) Emotionen. In: Schneider & Fink (Eds), Funktionelle MRT in Psychiatrie und Neurologie. Springer, pp. 483–504

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Abbreviations

aMCC:

Anterior midcingulate cortex

CS:

Conditioned stimulus

DCM:

Dynamic causal modeling

MTL:

Medial temporal lobe

PET:

Positron emission tomography

rCBF:

Regional cerebral blood flow

US/UCS:

Unconditioned stimulus

V5:

Extrastriatal visual area V5/MT (middle temporal)

VPFC:

Ventral prefrontal cortex

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    Birgit Derntl, Frank Schneider & Ute Habel

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Derntl, B., Schneider, F., Habel, U. (2014). Emotions. In: Mulert, C., Shenton, M. (eds) MRI in Psychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54542-9_10

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