Affective Neuroscience: Emotions, Cognition, and Behavior Draft syllabus Semester & Location: Type & Credits: Core Course Study Tours: Major Disciplines: Faculty Members: Program Director: Fall 2018 - DIS Stockholm Core Course - 3 credits Paris, France Neuroscience, Psychology Élodie Cauvet Carla Caetano - cca@dis.dk Time & Place Monday/Thursday 8:30 9:50, Location: TBD Description of Course Prerequisite: One semester of neuroscience, physiological psychology, or biological psychology at university level Co-requisite: Enrollment in Affective Neuroscience Research Lab How do we understand the interplay of human emotions and their neural networks? This course applies findings from the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience and the psychological studies of cognition, emotion, and personality. Basic, complex, and social emotions are explored from the perspective of, for example, the subjective experience of emotion, non-conscious processes, how emotions are interpreted, expressed, or regulated. Affective systems, neural networks, and their relationship to cognitive processes such as attention, learning, memory, and decision making are addressed. Where relevant, human brain imaging findings, pathological conditions, treatment and cultural perspectives are considered. Learning Objectives By the end of this course, students should be able to: - Discuss the main theoretical perspectives in affective neuroscience - Contrast the physiological and neurological correlates underlying different emotions - Critically analyze the impact of emotions on cognitive processes, including - but not limited to - higher order functions - Compare and discuss the alterations of affect and its regulation in terms of cognitive and neural processes within the pathological and non-pathological framework - Reflect upon the developmental milestones of emotions and their regulation in terms of behavior and neurological process - Integrate the different levels of emotion processing (cognitive, psychological and neurological) and their interplay into multimodal models - Discuss the key approaches to studying emotions and their regulation integrating neuroscience and cognitive psychology - Critically evaluate research methods used in the affective neuroscience field - Carry out a specific literature review with critical perspective on a selected topic - Present, discuss and criticize scientific papers - Critically reflect on the main issues, including ethics, validity etc. arising from the study of emotion
The following topics will be covered during the course: Theme 1: Basics of neurobiology of emotion Neuroanatomy and brain organization Hormonal systems Autonomic nervous system Theme 2: Basics and introductory theory in cognitive psychology Higher Order cognitive functions Cognitive and psychological theories of emotion Interplay of cognition emotion and behavior Psychological theories of emotion and the role of neuroscience Theme 3: Techniques used in affective neuroscience research Neuroimaging Physiological measures Psychological measures Theme 4: Eliciting emotions Emotion and the body Emotion and olfaction Emotion and music Emotion and language Theme 5: Emotions: from basics to complex Excitement, pleasure, desire Anger, disgust and fear Happiness Social emotions: moral, social and empathy Theme 6: Emotion and cognition Emotion and attention: bias and top down effects Emotion and memory Emotion regulation and the prefrontal cortex Emotion and reward Emotion and consciousness Theme 7: Variability in emotion Sex differences Aging Cultural differences in emotion Affective disorders
Faculty Élodie Cauvet obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, from Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris (France). Her research interest started with language acquisition in infants leading to the study of the cerebral processing of language and music in adults. She became interested in neurodevelopmental disorders starting with developmental dyslexia then expending into autism spectrum disorders as well as ADHD. She is using techniques from psychology as well as neuroimaging in her research, this includes MRI (anatomical and functional) as well as EEG and eye tracking. She has been conducting her latest research at Karolinska Institutet Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND). Her interests include social cognitive skills, empathy and emotion processing within the whole spectrum of functioning from typicality to disorders such as ASD. With DIS since 2016. Reading (Examples): Books: (selected chapters) Armony, J. & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.), (2013) The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience; Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. Kandel (2013): Principles of Neural Science, 5 th edition, chapter 48, Emotions and Feelings and chapter 63, Disorders of Mood and Anxiety Power, M. & Tim Dalgleis, T. (2008). Cognition and Emotion: From Order to Disorder. Psychology Press: New York Articles (Selected): Kohn N., Eickhoff S.B., Scheller M., Laird A.R., Fox P.T. & Habel U., (2014) Neural network of cognitive emotion regulation An ALE meta-analysis and MACM analysis, NeuroImage, Volume 87, 2, 345-355. Kringelbach, M. L., & Berridge, K. C. (2017). The Affective Core of Emotion: Linking Pleasure, Subjective Well-Being, and Optimal Metastability in the Brain. Emotion Review, 9(3), 191-199. Scollon, C. N., Koh, S., & Au, E. W. (2011). Cultural differences in the subjective experience of emotion: When and why they occur. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(11), 853-864. Emotion regulation development Feldman, R. (2015). Mutual influences between child emotion regulation and parent child reciprocity support development across the first 10 years of life: Implications for developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 27(4pt1), 1007-1023. doi:10.1017/s0954579415000656
Peter Zimmermann, Alexandra Iwanski, Emotion regulation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood and middle adulthood: Age differences, gender differences, and emotion-specific developmental variations, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Vol 38, Issue 2, pp. 182 194, First Published January 23, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025413515405 Seasonal depression Mårtensson, Björn, et al. "Bright white light therapy in depression: a critical review of the evidence." Journal of affective disorders 182 (2015): 1-7. Uzoma, H. N., Reeves, G. M., Langenberg, P., Khabazghazvini, B., Balis, T. G., Johnson, M. A., Postolache, T. T. (2015). Light treatment for seasonal Winter depression in African-American vs Caucasian outpatients. World Journal of Psychiatry, 5(1), 138 146. http://doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v5.i1.138 Field Studies (examples) In Stockholm Clinics: Emotion regulation in children Clinics - Habilitering: Treating anxiety with Mindfulness Research: Emotion lab (KI or Stockholm University) Research: Johan Lundsröm s group at KI: emotion processing in relation to olfaction (aversive olfactory learning ) Study Tours Core Course Week and Short Study Tour: Göteborg Theme: Variability in emotion processing: from typicality to atypicality Long Study Tour- Paris: Theme: Eliciting emotions and how to measure them Examples: Palais de la Découverte or Cité des sciences et de l industries Methods: Arts et Métiers Methods: Visit of ultra-high field magnet at Neurospin + potentially nuclear reactor for producing radiotracer, if possible. School of medicine museum Visit of one hospital/clinic
Guest Lecturers (examples) E.g., Experts in the field will be invited to discuss Swedish/European perspectives pertaining to research and practice in the field Lab: Refer to the co-requisite syllabus for all details Evaluation Grading Assignment Percent Attendance & Participation 15% Tests (2 tests at 15% each) 30% (Total) Group Presentation (10%) with short paper (15%) 25% (Total) Final Integration Paper 30% Detailed assignment description /rubric will be available via Canvas/in-class/handouts/