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Affective Neuroscience

The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

Affective Neuroscience
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PART I: Conceptual Background

1. Affective Neuroscience: History and Major Concepts

2. Emotional Operating Systems and Subjectivity: Methodological Problems and a Conceptual Framework for the Neurobiological Analysis of Affect

3. Varieties of Emotional Systems in the Brain--Theories, Taxonomies, and Semantics

4. Neurostatistics: The Anatomy of the Brain/Mind

5. Neurodynamics: The Electrical Languages of the Brain

6. Neurodynamics: Neurochemical Maps of the Brain

PART II: Basic Emotional and Motivational Processes

7. Sleep, Arousal, and Mythmaking in the Brain

8. SEEKING Systems and Anticipatory States of the Nervous System

9. Energy Is Delight--The Pleasures and Pains of Brain Regulatory Systems

10. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: The Neurobiological Sources of Rage and Anger

11. The Sources of Fear and Anxiety in the Brain

PART III: The Social Emotions

12. Varieties of Love and Lust: Neural Control of Sexuality

13. Love and the Social Bond: Sources of Nurturance and Maternal Behavior

14. Loneliness and the Social Bond: The Brain Sources of Sorrow and Grief

15. Rough-and-Tumble Play: The Brain Sources of Joy

16. Emotions, the Higher Cerebral Processes and the SELF: Some Are Born to Sweet Delight, Some Are Born to Endless Night

Appendix A: Bones, Brains, and Human Origins

Appendix B: Brain, Language, and Affective Neuroscience

Appendix C: Dualism and the Neurosciences

Oxford University Press, USA; September 2004
480 pages; ISBN 9780199884353
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