Research Links

Theories of Emotion

http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/courses/TofEmotion.html
Classic theories of emotion.

http://www.inspirationcenter.net/mindbody/jlt.html
A brief description of the James-Lange theory. Includes a flow chart.

http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html
A very detailed site on William James.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/emotion.htm
William James' article "What is an emotion?".

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Lange/
A translation of George Carl Lange's "The Mechanism of the Emotions".

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~hsstbbp/emotlec2.htm
William James on the physiological differentiation of emotion.

http://psychstudy.brookscole.com/instructor/common/tips/98-06/emotion/index.shtml
An exercise related to the facial feedback hypothesis.

http://www.gettysburg.edu/~arterber/psy101/emotion3.html
A collection of studies on the facial feedback hypothesis.

The Hypothalamus and Emotion

http://www.psycheducation.org/emotion/pics/big%20hypothalamus.htm
The anatomy of the hypothalamus.

http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/hypoANS.html
The hypothalamus and its role in the autonomic nervous system.

http://www.ttuhsc.edu/pharm/neuro/NeuroFac/Lutherer/Lutherer.htm
A great description of the functions of the hypothalamus.

http://www.neurosurgery.org/cybermuseum/stereotactichall/index.html
The Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery's entry on stereotactic neurosurgery.

http://psychology.unn.ac.uk/andrew/PY019/AGGROHO.htm
The psychobiological processes of aggression.

The Papez Circuit

http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/year2/neuro/neuroexam/v11612.html
A description and flow chart of the Papez circuit.

http://www.anatomy.wisc.edu/Limbic/papez.html
The anatomical correlates of the Papez circuit.

The Kluver-Bucy Syndrome

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~gjdlab/Dar.html
Kluver-Bucy symptoms.

http://schatz.sju.edu/neuro/disorders/kluverbucy.html
A good description of Kluver-Bucy syndrome.

Limbic System

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/markowitsch
MIT's entry on the limbic system.

http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Psych289/Biotutorials/8/part1.html
A great tutorial on the limbic system.

http://www.healing-arts.org/n-r-limbic.htm
The limbic system seen as the center of emotions.

http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/limbic.html
An anatomical look at the temporal lobe portion of the limbic system. Includes good diagrams.

http://www.kheper.auz.com/gaia/intelligence/MacLean.htm
The triune brain hypothesis.

Fear Conditioning

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/events/ledoux.htm
A National Institute of Mental Health article on the emotional brain and fear conditioning. Includes some links.

http://maren1.psych.lsa.umich.edu/Models.html
A University of Michigan laboratory's fear conditioning studies.

http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/chapters/pavlov.htm
A good summary of classical conditioning.

http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~tcreed/pb/pavcon.html
Information on Pavlovian conditioning with an exercise related to human fear/pain conditioning.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Holt2.html
The role of the amygdala in fear. Includes some excellent links.

Emotional Memory

http://www.voiceofwomen.com/centerarticle.html
Dissociative disorders.

Cortex and Emotions

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/history_subpages/kurtgoldstein.html
A biography on Kurt Goldstein. Goldstein coined the term catastrophic reaction in reference to the depressed mood following a left-hemisphere lesion.

http://www.neuro-net.net/diseases/journals/acutestroke/depress.html
An article on depression following stroke.

http://w3.uokhsc.edu/neuro/faculty/apros-mm.htm
An article on affective prosody and aprosodia.

http://www.human-nature.com/darwin/emotion/contents.htm
Charles Darwin's "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals."

http://members.aol.com/nonverbal3/facialx.htm
An interesting page on facial expression.

http://www.dushkin.com/connectext/psy/ch10/facex.mhtml
An exercise in selecting facial features to match specific emotions.

http://204.202.137.111/sections/science/DyeHard/dye990414.html
An interesting article from ABC News on the right hemisphere's role in humor.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/8195/tle.html
Temporal lobe epilepsy in dogs.

http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/neurowebforum/EpilepsyArticles/panicattackepilepsy.html
A great article on temporal lobe epilepsy in humans.

Amygdala

http://www.benbest.com/science/anatmind/anatmd9.html
A descriptive site on the amygdala, its anatomy, function, and connections.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/stefanacci
MIT's entry on the amygdala.

http://www.ki.se/cns/news/amygdala-e.html
Differential activation of the left and right amygdala during conscious and unconscious presentations of emotional faces.

Other Sites of Interest

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/ledoux
MIT's entry on animal emotions.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/brothers
MIT's entry on human emotions.

http://www.epsychlopedia.net/concepts/motivationAndEmotion/index.php?id=eEmotion1
Epsychlopedia's entry on emotion.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/baschap1.cfm#emotion
The National Institute of Mental Health's chapter on emotion and motivation.

http://www.albion.edu/psychology/fac_psyc/jwilson/psy348/Emotion.htm
Neural substrates of emotion.

http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/emotion.html
Emotion from the evolutionary psychological perspective.

http://www.psy.ulaval.ca/~arvid/R2e.html
How emotions are studied in psychology.