Emotional thought

Neurologists treat nervous system diseases that mainly cause physical symptoms. Therefore, they are concerned with both the CNS and the PNS. Mental health professionals, on the other hand, treat diseases that produce emotional, thought, and behavioral symptoms. As a result, we are more concerned with the CNS and, in particular, the brain. 

To summarize, the mental status exam highlights several aspects of functioning. Each succeeding component requires that earlier aspects be intact for adequate reality testing, as well as the optimal expression of one s personality, as subjectively perceived and objectively observed, in terms of emotions, thoughts, and behavior. 

Lawson and Baud-Bovy (1977) An expression of knowledge, impressions, prejudice, imaginations and emotional thoughts an individual has of a specific object or place... 

Exposed is a beautiful movie (40 minutes long) about an American MCS patient. The protagonist, a professional dancer, often filmed herself throughout her life. She kept doing so when she developed MCS, and thereby documented on tape very intense emotions, thoughts out loud, and so on. Some moments were very moving and touched me deeply. The filmmaker intersperses the patient s own recordings with old commercials about chemicals, interviews, and other material. 

The serotonergic neurons of the raphe nuclei in the brainstem innervate the entire brain and likely exert substantial modulatory effects on our perceptions, emotions, thought processes, and conscious awareness— the mental states that may collectively be called the mind. Psilocybin and related tryptamines from Psilocybe fungi are believed to produce their profound effects on the brain and mind by way of interacting with 5-HT2A receptors in the cerebral cortex, limbic system, and elsewhere. As chemical probes that might lead to a better understanding of how the neural circuitry of the brain is related to the nature of mind, they offer unprecedented opportunities ... 

Treatment geared to changing emotions, thoughts, or behavior without the use of medications or other physical or biological means. 

Guilt for emotions, thoughts, or events outside our control... 

The major psychoses ( madness or insanity ) are divided into two types schizophrenias and manic-depressive disorders. The schizophrenias are characterized by disordered thinking, emotional withdrawal and, often, audio or visual delusions. Delirium, when present, can lead to violence. In the manic-depressive disorders, memory and orientation are retained but emotion, thought, and behaviour are highly disordered. This illness can be unipolar (e.g. depressive only) or bipolar (alternating between both modes). 

Uses mind-numbing behaviours to avoid/evacuate emotions, thoughts or memories, e.g. self-harm... 

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