“In a relationship it is impossible to not communicate. Our facial expressions, our actions, our tone, our words, and even our silence communicates to those around us.”
By Madeleine Pujals Maya
Archive for June, 2014
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“I mentioned earlier that, properly speaking, there is no center of emotions in the brain.
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Emotions are complex phenomena that are functions of the interaction of several regions of the brain.
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There is therefore no point in looking for a “center” of happiness or of unhappiness.
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Nonetheless, work carried out in the past twenty years, principally by Richard Davidson and his colleagues, has found that when people report feeling joy, altruism, interest, or enthusiasm, and when they manifest high energy and vivacity of spirit, they present significant cerebral activity in the left prefrontal cortex.
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On the other hand, those who predominantly experience such “negative” emotional states as depression, pessimism, or anxiety and have a tendency to become withdrawn manifest more activity in the right prefrontal cortex.
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Moreover when we compare activity levels of the left and right prefrontal cortexes of subjects at…
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