Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain / edited by Mario Beauregard

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beauregard, Mario, Editor.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 54.

Advances in consciousness research 1381-589X ; v. 54.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuropsychiatry.

Consciousness.

Brain.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

ix, 306 pages; 22cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Summary:

During the last decade, the study of emotional self-regulation has blossomed in a variety of sub-disciplines belonging to either psychology (developmental, clinical) or the neurosciences (cognitive and affective). Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain gives an overview of the current state of this relatively new scientific field. Several areas are examined by some of the leading theorists and researchers in this emerging domain. Most chapters seek to either present theoretical and developmental perspectives about emotional self-regulation (and dysregulation), provide cutting edge information with regard to the neural basis of conscious emotional experience and emotional self-regulation, or expound theoretical models susceptible of explaining how healthy individuals are capable of consciously and voluntarily changing the neural activity underlying emotional processes and states. In addition, a few chapters consider the capacity of human consciousness to volitionally influence the brain's electrical activity or modulate the impact of emotions on the psychoneuroendocrine-immune network. This book will undoubtedly be useful to scholars and graduate students interested in the relationships between self-consciousness, emotion, the brain, and the body. (Series B).

Contents:

Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

List of contributors

Introduction

Overview of chapter contents

Acknowledgements

Emotion self-regulation

Components of emotion

Gross' process model of emotion self-regulation

Theoretical and empirical challenges in measuring antecedent emotion self-regulation

Izard's multi-system model of emotion generation

Implications of Izard's multi-system model of emotion activation for emotion self-regulation

Emotion self-regulation and emotional homeostasis

A sequential model of emotion self-regulation

Control regulation

Emotional dissociation

Enhancing and suppressing emotional expression

Anticipatory regulation

Exploratory regulation

Emotion self-regulation as a contextually-bound process

Summary and future research directions

References

Temperament and emotional regulation

Theoretical and empirical approaches to emotional regulation

Emotional regulation in early childhood: Normative development

Temperament and early emotional development

Temperament and the development of emotional regulation

Direct effects of temperament

Moderated effects of temperament

Mediational effects of temperament

Future directions in the study of temperament and emotional regulation

Summary

Emotion dysregulation and psychopathology

Functionalist theory

Emotion regulation and dysregulation

What gets regulated in emotion regulation?

Emotion dysregulation and psychopathology in childhood

Nonclinical samples

Clinical samples

At-risk samples

Emotion regulation and psychopathology in adulthood

Summary and future directions.

Ackowledgements

Neural substrates of conscious emotional experience

Overview

A cognitive neuroscientific approach to emotional experience

A cognitive-developmental approach to emotional experience

The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS): Psychometric findings

Neural correlates of emotional awareness

A. Focal attention to feelings

B. Reflective awareness

C. Background feelings

D. Implicit emotion

A neural model of implicit and explicit emotional processing

Self-regulation

Discussion

Normative emotional experience

Clinical implications

Self-regulation by the medial frontal cortex

Concepts of self-regulation

The anterior cingulate cortex in self-regulation

Animal studies of action monitoring

Human studies of action monitoring

The ERN and action monitoring

The ERN and conflict monitoring

Disorders of self-regulation

Monitoring deficits and schizophrenia

Monitoring deficits and OCD

Affective control of action monitoring

A model of action-regulation

Systems for discriminative learning

Neurophysiological mechanisms for self-regulation

Human electrophysiology of corticolimbic self-regulation

Phase resetting of the theta rhythm by dopaminergic signals

Opiates and the theta rhythm: Modification of the signal-to-noise ratio

Cybernetics of motivational congruence

Neural basis of conscious and voluntary self-regulation of emotion

Definition of emotional self-regulation

Neural basis of emotional self-regulation: Findings from functional neuroimaging studies

Neural correlates of conscious and voluntary regulation of sexual arousal

Neural correlates of conscious and voluntary regulation of sadness in adults.

Neural correlates of conscious and voluntary regulation of sadness in children

fMRI studies of emotional self-regulation conducted by other groups

Neural circuitry underlying emotional self-regulation

A theoretical note about emotional self-regulation and mind-brain interaction

The volitional influence of the mind on the brain, with special reference to emotional self-regulation

Practical and theoretical aspects of self-directed neuroplasticity

Philosophical foundations of neuroscience

A causal role for mindful awareness in brain regulation

Physics in neuroscience

Classical physics

Choices of the Process I actions

The Quantum Zeno Effect

Mental action in neuroscience

Conclusions and summary

Appendix

The culture of behaviorism and the conflict in philosophy of science (by Jeffrey Schwartz and Mario Beauregard)

EEG biofeedback (``Neurofeedback'') and affective disorders

Organization of this chapter

Definition with underlying principles

The trivial mediation issue

Functional significance: Experimental studies

Functional significance: Clinical application for depression

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

Consciousness, emotional self-regulation, and the psychosomatic network

Introduction: Consciousness and volitional control

The psychosomatic network: Psychoneuroimmunology

Relevance to oral biology and medicine

Conclusion

Notes

Name index

Subject index

The series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9027251886

9781282255296

1282255290

9789027295866

9027295867

9781423772309

142377230X

OCLC:

70771490