'Hate circuit' discovered in brain‏...how to short circuit ....

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 Alok Tholia

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OK, we know now that why person has some strong attitudes be it hate or jealousy or anger or strong  urge to take revenge. But then how to short circuit such circuit in brain. How to cure such a person?? Specially a person so suffering does not himself realize his such strong instincts so he never approaches mental health experts and is always fully convinced that his such grudges are correct and justified. 

Can some one please advise? 

Alok 

07-10-2011

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Thanks Doc for reminding me of the insula. I'd read a lot about it a few years back.

The insula, is involved with emotions. So I can understand that it is involved in the hate circuit. But what I feel is that it is the main connection between the emotions and our body states. For it is involved in the process of homeostasis. Meditation has a strong effect on the anterior insular cortex. And it even has a connection with addictions, as a number of people who had had strokes (in 2007 or 2008), which had affected their insular, suddenly stopped smoking. 
I have been intrigued by the insula for a number of years, but I don't know how to make anything concrete out of it. Doc, I hope you, or some of your colleagues can do some more research on the insula. For I feel it is the key brain area in the mystery of mental health puzzle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_cortex

Regards

Rajiv

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> 'Hate circuit' discovered in brainThe hate circuit was first clearly identified in 2008 by UCL Professor Semir Zeki who found that a circuit which seemed to connect three regions in the brain (the superior frontal gyrus, insula and putamen) when test subjects were shown pictures of people they hated
> .The putamen is thought to be used to prepare the body for movement - so it's possible this be active either to provide protection of the loved one, or to prepare for an aggressive or spiteful act from the hated one. The insula is associated with feelings of distress, such asjealousy.http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15060-hate-circuit-discovered-in-brain.html
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'Hate circuit' discovered in brain

The hate circuit was first clearly identified in 2008 by UCL Professor Semir Zeki who found that a circuit which seemed to connect three regions in the brain (the superior frontal gyrus, insula and putamen) when test subjects were shown pictures of people they hated
.The putamen is thought to be used to prepare the body for movement - so it's possible this be active either to provide protection of the loved one, or to prepare for an aggressive or spiteful act from the hated one. The insula is associated with feelings of distress, such as jealousy.http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15060-hate-circuit-discovered-in-brain.html

[sent by my friend Dr Ashok]