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The Evolution of Emotional Communication: From Sounds in Nonhuman Mammals to Speech and Music in Man. The Evolution of Emotional Communication: From Sounds in Nonhuman Mammals to Speech and Music in Man Emotions are integral decision mechanisms in the brain of humans and animals.

The Evolution of Emotional Communication: From Sounds in Nonhuman Mammals to Speech and Music in Man

They are universal in mammals, originally evolved for governing fitness-relevant behavioral and physiological responses towards a particular stimulus or situation. Emotional brain assessment mechanisms are dependent on motivation and vary according to homeostatic needs, for example, feelings of hunger, coldness, or sexual urges. They may be either solely inherited or additionally modified by experience and, in humans, by memory and tradition. Emotions can be measured on the behavioral level by the type of a behavioral response, reflected, for example, in vocalizations, bodily displays, facial mimics, gestures, or simply in avoidance-approach tendencies. Read About Giorgio Bertini. The Neuroscience of Attachment - Linda Graham, MFT, Resources for Recovering ResilienceLinda Graham, MFT, Resources for Recovering Resilience. [first presented as a Clinical Conversation at the Community Institute for Psychotherapy, Fall 2008] © Linda Graham, MFT It’s fascinating to learn what’s happening in our brains as we feel accepted or rejected by people closest to us or important to us.

The Neuroscience of Attachment - Linda Graham, MFT, Resources for Recovering ResilienceLinda Graham, MFT, Resources for Recovering Resilience

What’s happening in our brains as we experience a sense of connection and belonging or dis-connection and isolation. (You may have experienced reactions in your own brain as you even read words like acceptance or rejection or experienced either one so far today.) While we hope it’s Love that makes the world go round, it IS human beings relating to one another that makes the world go round, either keeping it healthy and viable one generation to the next or threatening to destroy it. Fortunately, the human brain has always had the biologically innate capacity to grow new neurons – lifelong – and more importantly, to create new synaptic connections between neurons lifelong. 1.

How the brain works…how relational learning works 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. The Cries that Bind: Connecting with Children. I couldn’t have stopped crying even if I had wanted to.

The Cries that Bind: Connecting with Children

I don’t remember now why I was crying, but I remember the look on my father’s face as he begged me to stop. “What am I going to do with you? All the neighbors are going to think you’ve gone crazy!” It was summer and the windows were open. And I was experiencing heartbreak like only a four year-old can.

Consciousness

How the Brain Works. Mind-Body Link. Attention. Happiness Pleasure. Art Creativity Music. Empathy Connection Resonance. Grief, Trauma, Anxiety. Knowing and Decision Making. Sleep.