Emotions, Stress & Anxiety

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The Anatomy of Emotions
It’s hard to describe what an emotion is — let alone how many of them there are or whether everyone experiences the same ones. But we do know this: emotions arise from activity in distinct parts of the brain.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
How Cells Communicate During Fight or Flight
What happens during that split second decision to stay or go?
  • Genetic Science Learning Center
The Brain Prize Presents: Ray Dolan
Ray Dolan, Peter Dayan, Wolfram Schultz have demonstrated how the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine helps us learn.
  • The Brain Prize
  • 5 min
Do Hurt Feelings Actually Hurt?
There’s no mistaking a broken heart for a broken bone — but our brains might look at both kinds of pain the same way.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Do Dogs Really Love Us?
This film investigates whether dogs love us by reviewing behavioural and neuroscientific evidence.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 4 min
Brains in Pain Cannot Learn
How severe are the effects of trauma on a young, learning brain?
  • Edutopia
The Heart vs. the Brain: A PowerPoint Presentation and Activity
Where do love ballads and beautiful poetry come from? What about the fear of heights and spiders? It’s all in the brain! In this lesson, explore the wonders of emotions and the brain with your students.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Unconditional Love
What looking at the brains of a mother and child can teach us.
  • BioInteractive
Melissa Walker: Art Can Heal PTSD's Invisible Wounds
Trauma silences its victims, but art can help those suffering from the psychological wounds of war begin to open up and heal.
  • TED
  • 10 min
The Root of Fear and Anxiety
Fears may be acquired over a lifetime, but our brains are wired for fear from birth.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Halloween Terror and Fetal Brain Development
Can a frightening experience during pregnancy affect the development of an unborn child’s brain?
The Nose Knows: Smell, Memory, and Emotion
What is it about smell that evokes such powerful memories? Find out in this video which earned an honorable mention in the 2016 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 4 min
No Fear
In an interesting article in the magazine Nautilus, J.B. MacKinnon, reports that a brain scan (fMRI) of free solo climber, Alex Honnold’s brain explains why he is so willing to risk his life to climb rocks without a rope.
  • BrainFacts/SfN

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