Neuroimaging biomarkers to associate obesity and negative emotions

Negative emotions and anosognosia.

Patients with anosognosia fail to acknowledge, or feel distressed by, their disability. Given the recent suggestion that right (frontal) systems are selectively involved in negative emotions, it might be claimed that anosognosia results from a disruption in negative emotions. This is not consistent with the finding that some anosognosic patients exhibit substantial fluctuations in emotion, incl...

A Cross-Cultural Study about Positive and Negative Emotions and Its Relation to Health and Well-being

Food Addiction, Obesity and Neuroimaging

This chapter will be dedicated to addressing various aspects of food addiction (where food is portrayed as being an addictive substance). It will encompass our group’s and colleagues’ newest neuroimaging research results and methods with respect to the findings of other researchers in the field. The chapter will attempt to elucidate the mechanisms of food addiction (FA) leading to obesity. It w...

The positives of negative emotions: willingness to express negative emotions promotes relationships.

Four studies support the hypothesis that expressing negative emotion is associated with positive relationship outcomes, including elicitation of support, building of new close relationships, and heightening of intimacy in the closest of those relationships. In Study 1, participants read vignettes in which another person was experiencing a negative emotion. Participants reported they would provi...

Using Negative Emotions to Impair Game Play

Emotions make significant contributions to rational thought and behavior at multiple levels. Most research with computational models of emotion focuses on reactive behaviors caused by base or learned emotions; yet emotions can play a role in purposeful behaviors as well, leading to emotion-related actions rather than reactions. Higher-level cognitive processes can reflect on the emotional state...