Everyone can feel the presence of emotions, but it's hard to tell what emotions really are. Everyone wants to get rid of bad emotions, but most of the time they can only be led by emotions. What are the types of emotions? How do emotions arise? How do emotions affect one's body and mind? How can you grasp, control, and even adapt to your emotions?

Emotions are intangible, but they are real.

Emotions are an important central function of higher organisms, an important form of response of the center to external stimuli, and an important way for the center to control some body functions and all internal organ functions.

Modern science has been able to prove that emotions are a special kind of human consciousness that comes from the human brain. The brain has a lot of sulcus, like a valley of mountains; Emotions and spirits are like springs in the valley, bubbling and flowing.

There is a saying that "emotions are the bridge between the physical and the psychological", which is a vivid and vivid metaphor. That is, the body and mind are one, and emotions are the mediator. Emotions can be generated by the hard work of 100 billion nerve cells in the brain. They are the material basis behind emotions and create the rich and colorful spiritual world of human beings.

Let's first understand the role of the hippocampus.

The hippocampus is part of the limbic system of the brain and plays an extremely important role, and its main function is to be responsible for the main recent memories of humans. It's kind of like a computer's memory, holding memories for weeks or months for quick access. The hippocampus functions as a conversion station in the process of memory. When neurons in the cerebral cortex receive various sensory messages, they transmit them to the hippocampus. If the hippocampus responds, neurons begin to form persistent networks. If this approved pattern is not passed, then the experience received by the brain automatically disappears.

Neuroscientists have discovered that the hemisphere that controls emotions is the right brain. The prefrontal cortex (aPFC) is responsible for emotions and feelings; The amygdala, which attaches to the end of the hippocampus, is almond-shaped and is part of the limbic system, whose function is to generate emotions, recognize and regulate emotions, and control learning and memory.

There are two "amygdala bodies" in the brain, which are bundles of nerve cells located on either side of the brain, below the temporal lobe. They act as a network hub that coordinates information from different sources, collects environmental signals, records emotional meanings, and initiates appropriate responses when necessary.

Studies have found that autism in young children also appears to be related to the amygdala. A study on magnetic stimulation (TMS) showed that people often have difficulty controlling their emotions when the first half of the human cerebral cortex is not active.

Next, several major emotions are analyzed.

fear

Fear is an unpleasant emotion, but it is necessary for human survival. In childhood, it is impossible for humans to defeat animals without fear, which continues to this day.

The brain has a fear center. American scientists conducted an experiment: electrocuted the feet of 32 volunteers and simultaneously scanned the brains of the subjects. The results showed that the nerve cells that produce the fear sensation are located in the same area of the brain as the nerve cells that produce the pain sensation. This "center" receives information from the lower part of the thalamus about the body's response to the environment (such as heart rate and blood pressure) and communicates with the rational reasoning area at the front of the brain, while connecting to the "hippocampus," an important memory center in the brain. This fear system is so efficient that your brain reacts before you even realize what's going on.

For example, while driving, a car suddenly turns into your lane, and you get scared before you even know it's coming. Before the visual part of your brain "sees" a dangerous scene, fear signals are already passed between your brain's "amygdala" and the crisis system.

If the "amygdala" of the brain is injured, a person or animal loses these fear skills. This is not a good thing, and for them, the world will become more dangerous because of it. The stress response is an important magic weapon for every living thing to survive on Earth. Without fear, humanity would have been extinct long ago. Self-balancing of emotional responses plays an extremely important role.

Fear may also be a gene. Through functional imaging research, scientists have discovered that the temporal lobe, a tonsil-shaped structure in the human brain, plays a key role in fear, anxiety and fear. In the process of working on the tonsillar nervous system, a species called stath-mi

The protein, also called "oncoprotein 18", evokes memories of fear.

Scientists have found that people are scared when they encounter snakes, and this emotion is present in childhood; Over time, some experiences can lead to new fearful memories associated with overactivity in the temporal lobe, a tonsil-shaped structure in the brain.

As mentioned above, the memory of fear, which is often associated with the early activity of the human brain, is associated with a type called stath-mi

protein. There has been much evidence that fear memories are strongly linked to this gene in humans, but scientists have not confirmed whether this gene is hereditary.

Sadness and joy

The American Psychiatric Monthly published a report on grief and brain relationships. It was concluded that grief caused changes in activity in more than 70 areas of the brain, including the amygdala and hippocampus, the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex, and the insula (a small area of cortex below the temporal lobe).

Happiness also elicits a response from many areas of the brain. According to the book "This is Your Brain's Response to Music" by American Dr. Daniel Levidin, music causes many parts of the brain to respond at the same time. When music sounds and rhythms are heard, the visual, sensory, and motor areas react. The music evokes memories and emotions of past experiences (the amygdala and hippocampus react). If a piece of music strikes you, it may be because it stimulates the reward-response area in your brain (Arkenberg's nucleus response).

Empathy

"Empathy" refers to a personality trait that allows you to experience and understand the feelings, needs, and emotions of others from their perspective.

The ability to "empathize" requires several areas of the brain to function normally: the end of the temporal lobe of the brain processes and remembers subtle language signals; The junctional part of the temporal and parietal lobes is responsible for remembering events, making moral judgments, and taking corresponding physical actions; The anterior frontal cortex deals with many of the complex reasoning contained in the feeling of "empathy".

Love

Love is also related to the activity of many parts of the brain. Brain sites deeply associated with love include the insula, anterior cingulate cortex, hippocampus, and Arkemberg's nucleus. In other words, these parts are involved in the brain's activities such as emotion, perception, memory, and reward.

Scientific evidence suggests that love is really blind because romantic love shuts down the part of the brain and the amygdala that makes the reasoning. In the case of burning passion, the brain's judgment and fear centers also temporarily stop working. Love also shuts down the parts of the brain that are needed for "mentalization".

religion

The results suggest that religious complexes may be innate, i.e., have a biological basis.

Religious belief is a complex issue. It involves social, customary, cultural, political and other factors, as well as cognition and emotion, the latter of which is dominated by the brain.

There are so-called "belief molecules" in our brains – serotonin in brain neurotransmission. Serotonin can produce a variety of illusions, such as hallucinations, perceptual confusion, feeling like you are one with the world around you, and so on. The higher the serotonin level, the easier it is for a person to believe in the existence of gods.

In addition, electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobe in the brain may produce a religiously out-of-body or sublimated sense of transcendent existence. There is *** and it will also make people have a religious feeling experience similar to sacred.

Everyone can feel the presence of emotions, but it's hard to tell what emotions really are. Everyone wants to get rid of bad emotions, but most of the time they can only be led by emotions.