This week my group broadened our topic to emotions instead of specifically, negative emotions. It is extremely helpful since we were kind of overlapping with the depression group. Through my research I have ran into several hormones linked to serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine and much more. It’s been super interesting to see how these chemicals play a vital role in the brain and making you you! During my research I ran into an article from The New York Times by Lisa Feldman Barrett That completely intrigued me, one quote reads, “My lab analyzed over 200 published studies, covering nearly 22,000 test subjects, and found no consistent and specific fingerprints in the brain for any emotion.” I’d been hearing so much about how various parts of the brain pertained to specific emotions so it very super interesting to hear a different claim. This encouraged me continue my research and see what other supporting arguments I could find. I also believe their is a lot of stigma surrounding adolescents and how we are, “hormone crazed” which is another contributing factor as to why I want to bring awareness to this topic and educate others. Happiness is an accepted emotion, whereas sadness is not. I’d like to show neurologically that just like your happy and various chemicals have to do with that, you can also have negative feelings related to hormones in the brain as well. My slogan for this project is, “Emotions are the building block of human life.” I chose this because as mentioned before there is a lot of stigma surrounding negative feelings and I want to show that both happiness and sadness are a part of life that should be accepted. My wondering this week is based on behaviors. I understand emotions and behaviors are hand in hand but I would like to know more about that connection. There are six basic emotions, anger, disgust, fear, sadness, happiness and surprise. and the physical response lines up with them. When you're happy you smile and laugh. When you’re sad you frown or cry. I would like to know what causes this to happen and how it’s a natural response in everyone.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorHere I will be uploading weekly reflections on my Teen Brain Health Project! Archives
April 2017
Categories |