感情神经科学研究进展

Research Progress of Affective Neuroscience

感情神经科学这一学科关注的是情绪和心境的潜在神经基质。近年来,感情神经科学通过使用功能神经成像、行为实验、电生理记录、动物和人类的损害研究及动物和人类的行为实验等方法和技术,以在神经生物学和心理学水平更好地理解情感和情绪。本文首先对感情神经科学的发展历史进行回顾;接着简要概述了几个主要大脑区域对情绪加工的贡献;最后指出了感情神经科学的未来方向。

Affective neuroscience is concerned with the underlying neural substrates of emotion and mood.In recent years,this discipline uses variety of methods and techniques to gain a better sense of emotion and affect,including functional neuroimaging,behavioural experiments,electrophysiological recording,animal and human lesion studies,animal and human behavioural experiments,etc.This paper first briefly reviewed the history of affective neuroscience;then overviewed the contributions of several key areas of the brain made to emotional processing,including amygdala,preforntal cortex,anterior cingulate cortex and insula;and finally pointed out the future development directions for affective neuroscience.