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The ability to regulate emotion – i.e., to disengage from or avoid negative emotional stimuli – may be necessary to decrease the salience of negative stimuli.
The circuits that are activated are not those associated with logical reasoning but those that regulate emotion.
This especially is the case in the brain areas that regulate emotion, pain, attention, stress and well-being.
Parkinson's placebos prompt the brain to release dopamine; anxiety and depression placebos elicit changes in the areas of the brain that regulate emotion.
Dr. Zahn-Waxler says the kind of discipline a child receives should "help the child regulate emotion, to calm down rather than become more agitated".
Neurotics, or those who often have negative, depressing thoughts, tend to have a smaller medial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain known to regulate emotion.
In the brain, prefrontal areas, which help regulate emotion, can relax, freeing them for another of their primary purposes: problem solving.
But Gage and other scientists revisited old findings and discovered that adult mice, rats and humans did, in fact, experience the birth of new neurons — but only in two very specific parts of the brain: in the olfactory bulb, where smells are registered, and in the hippocampus, a curl of tissue that controls memories and is functionally linked to parts of the brain that regulate emotion.
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