It’s not unusual to hear people describe themselves as emotionally 'colder'

It’s not unusual to hear people who have undergone sympathectomies describe themselves as feeling emotionally “colder” than before. Among psychologists and neurologists alike there is concern, but no evidence, that the procedure limits alertness and arousal as well as fear, and might affect memory, empathy and mental performance. Professor Ronald Rapee, the director of the Centre of Emotional Health at Sydney’s Macquarie University, says he’s counselled several people who complain of feeling “robot-like” in the long-term wake of the operation. “They’re happy they no longer blush, but they miss the highs and lows they used to feel.”
(John van Tiggelen, Good Weekend Magazine, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, 10th March 2012)
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Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Role of Dopamine in behavior modulation

These findings support the idea that DA signals errors in expectancy and that DA signaling is necessary for certain behavioral responses to unexpected events.
Volume 122, Issue 2, 1 October 2001, Pages 193-199 

Mitchell F. Roitmana, Gertjan van Dijkb, Todd E. Thielec and Ilene L. Bernstein, ,

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