Emotional reactivity

Suomi, S.J. (1991) Early stress and adult emotional reactivity in rhesus monkeys. Ciba Found Symp 156 171-183. 

II. Endocannabinoid Role in Emotional Reactivity and Mood Tone... 

In this scenario, Antonelli et al. (2005) found a decrease in the rate of separation-induced ultrasonic emission in the 10-day-old rat pups prenatal exposed to WIN55,212-2, revealing a decreased emotional reactivity in such offspring. In a recent study, we focused on the effects induced by exposure to... 

NMDA receptor function and emotional reactivity changes in rat offspring. Cereb. Cortex doi 10.1093/cercor/bhi076. 

Trezza, V., Campolongo, P., Cassano, T., Macheda, T., Dipasquale, P., Carratu, M. R., Gaetani, S., and Cuomo, V. (2008a). Effects of perinatal exposure to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol on the emotional reactivity of the offspring A longitudinal behavioral study in Wistar rats. Psychopharmacology (Bed.) 198, 529-537. 

Although it was only a model, the idea of kindling superficially appeared to provide a disease-specific justification for the use of anticonvulsants in manic depression. It also opened up the possibility of defining a sort of drug that would reduce emotional reactivity, in the same way that anticonvulsants are believed to reduce the brain s nervous excitability. In this sense kindling gave birth to the notion of a mood stabiliser. However as David Healy has pointed out, it was not until Abbott laboratories started to research and market sodium valproate for manic depression that the idea of a mood stabiliser really took root (Healy 2006). 

The term deactivation will be used to designate a continuum of phenomena variously described as disinterest, indifference, diminished concern, blunting, lack of spontaneity, reduced emotional reactivity, reduced motivation or will, apathy, and, in the extreme, a reusable stupor. 

Rick No. It is conceivable that one or two strains, by chance or by some artifact, may be sick and that their behaviour is a concomitant of this rather than of some aspect of their brain chemistry. If this were so, however, one would pick it up because all the strains would have to be sick in the same way in order to get this type of identification on the component. I am not terribly happy with the term arousal . I tend to think of it more as the state of reactivity of the animal, but this tends to get confused with emotional reactivity. 

Children 198 Spot urine Child urinary BPA concentrations at 3 years of age associated with parent-reported higher emotional reactivity scores Perera et al. (2012)... 

Psychiatric disorders must be considered to have a biochemical basis. Psychosis, neurosis, mental retardation, and behavior problems must, in the last analysis, be complex manifestations of some aberration of biochemical functioning of the central nervous system. Fig. 3 diagrams how one may conceptualize mental function in terms of intermediary metabolism. Mental function can be expressed in terms of an individual s intelligence, personality, and patterns of behavior. These outward manifestations of mental function can be considered to be complex expressions of consciousness (self-awareness), sensory perception (awareness of reality of the outside world), volition (decision making), memory, learning, creative ability (problem solving), and emotional reactivity (which is partially subconscious). All of these components are some function of the nerve network. How the nerve network gives rise to these components is unknown. It is apparent from... 

CREATIVE ABILITY (PROBLEM SOLVING) EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY (SUBCONSCIOUS)... 

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