title: The neurology of human emotion.
abstract: Emotion can be considered the result of mood (the inner, subjective feelings), affect (the outer, objective manifestations of feeling), drive, and cognitive control. Research in the past several decades suggests a correlation between characteristic emotional disorders and abnormalities involving restricted neuroanatomical regions. Mood appears to be a product of the basal-limbic structures. Affect is more hemisphere influenced and the difference between nonverbal and verbal affect appears to reflect right and left hemispheric function. Drive can be considered a function of midline anterior anatomical structures while cognitive control, the ability to govern action by thought, seems to depend on frontal convexity and/or orbital frontal function. Emotion is a summation of these activities and emotional disorder may follow disturbance to any one or a combination of these separate functions.
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D004328:Drive / Q000502:physiology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000502:physiology; D010296:Parietal Lobe; D010551:Personality; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D011612:Psychosurgery; D009435:Synaptic Transmission; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents