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Circuits of Emotion

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A book on brain is incomplete without a discussion of what emotions are, where, if they can be localized, they are located in the brain, and how brain handles them. Emotions pose a peculiar problem to the neuroscientist.

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.

—Irene Claremont de Castillejo.

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Chakravarthy, V.S. (2019). Circuits of Emotion. In: Demystifying the Brain. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3320-0_10

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