Frontiers in Psychology,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
12
Published: April 29, 2021
The
recognition
and
incorporation
of
evidence-based
neuroscientific
concepts
into
creative
arts
therapeutic
knowledge
practice
seem
valuable
advantageous
for
the
purpose
integration
professional
development.
Moreover,
exhilarating
insights
from
field
neuroscience
coincide
with
nature,
conceptualization,
goals,
methods
Creative
Arts
Therapies
(CATs),
enabling
comprehensive
understandings
clinical
landscape,
a
translational
perspective.
This
paper
contextualizes
discusses
dynamic
brain
functions
that
have
been
suggested
to
lie
at
heart
intra-
inter-personal
processes.
Touching
upon
fundamental
aspects
self
self-other
interaction,
state-of-the-art
neuroscientific-informed
views
will
shed
light
on
mechanisms
embodied,
predictive
relational
brain.
conceptual
analysis
introduces
interweaves
following
contemporary
perspectives
function:
firstly,
grounding
mental
activity
in
lived,
bodily
experience
be
delineated;
secondly,
enactive
account
internal
models,
or
generative
representations,
shaped
by
experience,
defined
extensively
deliberated;
thirdly,
interpersonal
simulation
synchronization
support
empathy
mentalization
thoroughly
considered.
Throughout
paper,
cross-talks
between
body,
within
through
functionally
connected
neural
networks
context
agent-environment
dynamics,
addressed.
These
communicative
patterns
elaborated
unfold
psychophysiological
linkage,
as
well
psychopathological
shifts,
concluding
neuroplastic
change
associated
formulation
CATs.
manuscript
suggests
an
integrative
view
brain-body-mind
contexts
relevant
potential
expressive
main
avenues
which
may
ground,
enlighten
enrich
psychotherapeutic
practice.
World Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
19(2), P. 132 - 150
Published: May 11, 2020
Resilience
-
a
key
topic
in
clinical
science
and
practice
still
lacks
clear
conceptualization
that
integrates
its
evolutionary
human-specific
features,
refrains
from
exclusive
focus
on
fear
physiology,
incorporates
developmental
approach,
and,
most
importantly,
is
not
based
the
negation
(i.e.,
absence
of
symptoms
following
trauma).
Building
initial
condition
mammals,
whose
brain
matures
context
mother's
body
caregiving
behavior,
we
argue
systems
processes
participate
tuning
to
social
ecology
adapting
hardships
mark
construct
resilience.
These
include
oxytocin
system,
affiliative
brain,
biobehavioral
synchrony,
all
characterized
by
great
flexibility
across
phylogenesis
ontogenesis.
Three
core
features
resilience
are
outlined:
plasticity,
sociality
meaning.
Mechanisms
which
coordinated
action
supports
diversity,
endurance
adaptation
described
animal
evolution.
Humans'
synchrony
maternal
attuned
behavior
postpartum
adult-adult
relationships
empathy,
perspective-taking
intimacy,
extends
mother-child
relationship
other
bonds
throughout
life,
charting
fundamental
trajectory
development
Findings
three
high-risk
cohorts,
each
tapping
distinct
disruption
maternal-infant
bonding
(prematurity,
depression,
early
life
stress/trauma),
followed
birth
adolescence/young
adulthood,
demonstrate
how
components
neurobiology
affiliation
confer
uniquely
shape
brain.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
121, P. 220 - 249
Published: Dec. 8, 2020
This
review
paper
provides
an
integrative
account
regarding
neurophysiological
correlates
of
positive
emotions
and
affect
that
cumulatively
contribute
to
the
scaffolding
for
happiness
wellbeing
in
humans
other
animals.
reviews
associations
among
neurotransmitters,
hormones,
brain
networks,
cognitive
functions
context
affect.
Consideration
lifespan
developmental
perspectives
are
incorporated,
we
also
examine
impact
healthy
social
relationships
environmental
contexts
on
modulation
The
processes
implement
dynamic
modifiable,
meditative
practices
as
well
flow
states
change
patterns
function
ultimately
support
discussed.
is
part
“The
Human
Affectome
Project”
(http://neuroqualia.org/background.php),
order
advance
a
primary
aim
Project,
reviewed
relevant
linguistic
dimensions
terminology
characterizes
wellbeing.
These
discussed
within
neuroscience
literature
with
overarching
goal
generating
novel
recommendations
advancing
research
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
15
Published: June 17, 2021
Naturalistic
stimuli
such
as
movies,
music,
and
spoken
written
stories
elicit
strong
emotions
allow
brain
imaging
of
in
close-to-real-life
conditions.
Emotions
are
multi-component
phenomena:
relevant
lead
to
automatic
changes
multiple
functional
components
including
perception,
physiology,
behavior,
conscious
experiences.
Brain
activity
during
naturalistic
reflects
all
these
changes,
suggesting
that
parsing
emotion-related
processing
complex
stimulation
is
not
a
straightforward
task.
Here,
I
review
affective
neuroimaging
studies
have
employed
study
emotional
processing,
focusing
especially
on
experienced
emotions.
argue
investigate
with
stimuli,
we
need
define
extract
emotion
features
from
both
the
stimulus
observer.
Human Brain Mapping,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
42(14), P. 4777 - 4804
Published: July 29, 2021
Abstract
While
the
discussion
on
foundations
of
social
understanding
mainly
revolves
around
notions
empathy,
affective
mentalizing,
and
cognitive
their
degree
overlap
versus
specificity
is
still
unclear.
We
took
a
meta‐analytic
approach
to
unveil
neural
bases
both
in
healthy
individuals
pathological
conditions
characterized
by
deficits
such
as
schizophrenia
autism.
observed
partially
overlapping
networks
for
mentalizing
medial
prefrontal,
posterior
cingulate,
lateral
temporal
cortex,
while
empathy
engaged
fronto‐insular,
somatosensory,
anterior
cingulate
cortex.
Adjacent
process‐specific
regions
temporal,
ventrolateral,
dorsomedial
prefrontal
cortex
might
underpin
transition
from
abstract
representations
mental
states
detached
sensory
facets
emotionally‐charged
states.
Altered
mentalizing‐related
activity
involved
distinct
sectors
autism,
only
latter
group
displayed
abnormal
related
amygdala.
These
data
inform
design
rehabilitative
treatments
deficits.
