Psychiatric Disorders Share Common Neural Circuit, Emotion Processing

everhopeful · February 5, 2020, 5:43pm

BrianTex · February 5, 2020, 6:06pm

Emotion processing has been a real problem for me and I’m sure others here as well.

labratmat · February 5, 2020, 6:18pm

Here is an interesting bit:

“Most tasks involved passive reactivity, meaning these areas largely reflect activation patterns for passive viewing of unpleasant scenes and faces.” which means that the person experiencing the negative and unpleasant scenes do not actively respond or resist to them.

I reckon this probably develops from childhood trauma and abuse. What do you reckon?

twinklestars · February 5, 2020, 9:01pm

The researchers concluded, “Taken together, these findings support the concept that psychiatric illness may be productively formulated as a dysfunction in transdiagnostic neurobehavioral phenotypes, such as neurocircuit activation, as opposed to discrete diagnoses.”