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Topic: Agitation (emotion)


  
  Emotion, Movement and Psychological Space
The logos of emotion begins in the pre-articulated experience of 'being moved' in some manner, yet, the already understood, implicit, lived ways of being-in-the-world as emotional are also shaped by the articulation of meaning through language..
From the second connotation, emotion is distinguished as a departure from the "norm," the calm that exists prior to the emergence of a potential movement.
Emotion, as a human phenomenon -- thus, as an existential -- must invariably be understood in terms of all of the existentials which, equiprimordially, compose the fabric of human existence.
mythosandlogos.com /emotion.html   (4841 words)

  
 Emotion
Lesions of the amygdala decrease people’s emotional responses.
In contrast, emotional facial paresis is caused by damage to the insular region of the prefrontal cortex, to the white matter of the frontal lobe, or to parts of the thalamus.
A theory of emotion that suggests that behaviors and physiological responses are directly elicited by situations and that feelings of emotions are produced by feedback from these behaviors and responses.
www.albany.edu /faculty/cafrye/apsy601/ch10emote.html   (6263 words)

  
 Emotion
The brain is the trigger for the emotion, the emotion results and impacts body (heart rate, breathing, tears) and also the brain (release of chemicals that impact the brainstem).
Emotions affect our daily lives and without them we would have no lives and would be uninteresting, uncreative beings, and not truly be living.
Emotion as defined in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary is as follows, a moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.
pages.eohio.net /finer/emotion3.htm   (1353 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Emotion is an "umbrella term" which includes the situation, the interpretation/perception of the situation and the response or feeling related to the perception of the situation.” J-P Du Preez is an EQ organizational consultant and a Senior Lecturer at Potchefstroom University, South Africa.
“Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together in the material world, and in the spiritual world they're the glue that holds the classrooms and the society together.
An emotional intelligent person is someone who retain the amygdala’s ability to “hijack the brain” in situations of danger and profound fear, but also maintain clear pathways through the high road to the neocortex where the information analysed and comprehended before activating the amygdala if an emotion is called for.
www.lpalm.virafrikaans.com /Artikels/EmotionalLeadership/EL1.htm   (4074 words)

  
 Chapter Emery <i>to</i> Empalement of E by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.
Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc.
Agitation may be bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1196/22539/5.html   (356 words)

  
 Agitation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up agitation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Agitation (action), putting into motion by shaking or stirring
Agitation (political), political activities aimed at urging people to do something
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agitation   (91 words)

  
 Emotion Test
For example, the agitation of a physician losing an emergency-room patient is an emotional state that adjusts the physician's ordinary high status, power, and reserve so that he or she personally manifests the unworthiness, inadequacy, and activation of failing to prevent a terrible misfortune.
Emotions imply identities through this connection between emotion and the difference between impression and identity — e.g., an actor involved in a wicked action who is displaying emotional pleasure presumably is gratified relative to a negative identity.
Emotions have to be understood within the process of symbolic interaction, and ACT's rigorous approach deepens understanding of the symbolic processing of emotion in several ways.
www.indiana.edu /~socpsy/papers/emoTest.htm   (8037 words)

  
 Memory and Aging Center: Emotions and Behavior
Emotional and behavioral symptoms are common in dementia and can be major sources of stress to patients and their caregivers.
Emotional and behavioral symptoms are thought to be caused by damage to specific areas of the brain that are responsible for directing our attention, motivating our behavior, and learning the significance of what is going on around us.
Pioneering work by Papez (1937) originally suggested that emotion is related to a ring of structures in the center of the brain called the limbic system.
memory.ucsf.edu /Education/Topics/emotions.html   (1188 words)

  
 emotion.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Social emotions, such as camaraderie, are positive, constructed only in social interaction (typically religious rituals), experienced by numerous individuals together, experienced only by men who are the sole participants of such interactions, are considered to be expressive acts not as internal states, and are regarded as the only true emotions.
the emotions that women display more (warmth, happiness, shame, guilt, fear, and nervousness) are related to affiliation, vulnerability, and self-consciousness, and are consistent with women's lower social status and power, lower physical aggression, and their traditional gender roles (including child caretaking and social bonding, which necessitates being able to read the emotion signals of others).
Specifically, the "emotion center" of the brain, the limbic system, is comprised of subcortical structures such as the amygdala, septal area, and hippocampus, and cortical structures such as the hippocampus and the cingulate gyrus.
www.humboldt1.com /~cr2/emotion.htm   (15122 words)

  
 Euphoria and Dysphoria in Norway's Vestfold Dialect - part I
Terms of emotion and interpersonal relations, in particular, represent an area of considerable concern in psychology, literature, and cross-cultural communications.
Emotions are often differentiated in terms of whether or not they can be seen by others.
Emotion = sinnsbevegelse = emotion, excitement, agitation (sinnet = minded, disposed, bevegelse = to move or stir) = rorelse = emotion, agitation (rore = to move or stir)
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/norwegian_culture/70782   (510 words)

  
 Glossary
An abnormal behavior is considered agitation only if it poses risk or discomfort to the individual with Alzheimer’s or his/her caregiver.
Agitation can be a nonspecific symptom of one or more physical or psychological problems (e.g., headache, depression).
One of the two components of the central nervous system, the brain is the center of thought and emotion.
www.alz.org /Resources/Glossary.asp   (4880 words)

  
 Educational Psychology Interactive: The Affective System
Emotion is important in personal and social life (Izard, Kagan, and Zajonc, 1984), is very complex (Young, 1996), and has been an important topic of study throughout most of the history of psychology (Lazarus, 1993).
Reiman and his associates (1997) have recently demonstrated that particular parts of the brain are associated with different aspects of emotion.
Emotions --complex, subjective experiences that have many components including physical, cognitive, organizing, and expressive, as well as highly personal, subjective meanings.
chiron.valdosta.edu /whuitt/col/affsys/affsys.html   (378 words)

  
 Mindful-Things | Glossary | A
Agitation - heightened physical activity such as pacing or hand-wringing, linked to something that makes one tense.
Agoraphobia - fear of being alone, outside the house or in open spaces or places where escape is difficult or embarrassing, or where help is not available.
Anxiety disorders - conditions characterized by unrealistic fear or anxiety of very high intensity, that negatively effect professional or social life or emotional health.
www.mindful-things.com /Glossary/glossary_a.htm   (921 words)

  
 Quotes about Emotion
That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe, forms my idea of God.
He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year.
www.zaadz.com /quotes/topics/emotion   (471 words)

  
 Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - in the ear of the listener
Similarly, à propos acting, the eighteenth century French philosopher Denis Diderot maintained that it is only second and third rate actors who depend absolutely upon feeling; first rate actors create the illusion in their audience without themselves being a victim of that illusion.
Singers must also take the greatest care not to become overpowered by emotional involvement to the extent that the voice might be affected or the mouth distorted.
A singer must remain in control of the many changes of emotional temperature in a usual recital of songs and keep a strong command over the relationship with the pianist or orchestra and conductor.
www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/04/ptfeel.htm   (324 words)

  
 The Science of Emotion: Mrs. Tipper Gore (Library of Congress)
In 1990, she founded Tennessee Voices for Children, a coalition to promote the development of services for children and youth with serious behavioral, emotional, substance use, and other mental health problems.
Researchers have found there is a profound relationship between the brain and the environment in the conduct of all aspects of our daily lives.
Research soon may help us understand the distorted emotional signals in the brain that occur in mental illness, that bring on the mania found in bipolar disorders or the deep lows and emotional hopelessness of depression, or that give rise to the agitation and the hallucination of schizophrenia.
www.loc.gov /loc/brain/emotion/MrsGore.html   (796 words)

  
 Pali-English Dict - 25
saṃvijjati : [saṃ + vid + ya] to be found; exists; to be agitated or moved.
saṅkhubhati : [saṃ + khubh + a] to be agitated; stirs.
sañcalati : [saṃ + cal + a] to be unsteady or agitated.
www.buddhanet.net /budsas/ebud/dict-pe/dictpe-25-s.htm   (4410 words)

  
 Index Guide, Page 277. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
tremulous agitated 315 - voice 583 irresolute 605 fear 860
trenchant energetic 171 assertive 535 concise style 572 vigorous language 574 important 642 emotion 821 discourteous 895 censure 932
trepidation agitation 315 emotion 821 excitement 825 fear 860
www.bartleby.com /110/s277.html   (424 words)

  
 Schizophrenia: Treatment
Patients who follow their doctors' instructions and never miss a dose tend to have milder symptoms and fewer relapses -- while those who don't take medication as directed may spend much of their lives plagued by symptoms.
Your doctor may also want you to take antidepressants or antianxiety medication for a while to alleviate the agitation and distress that can accompany this illness.
Loved ones can help out by lending emotional support, encouraging you to continue with treatment, keeping an eye out for signs of a relapse, and -- perhaps most important -- learning all they can about your condition so they can help you stay on course.
www.webmd.com /content/pages/11/1835_50591.htm   (685 words)

  
 Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept EmotionalState   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"
showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander"
in an emotionally fierce manner; "she was fiercely proud of her children"
icosym-nt.cvut.cz /kifb/wordnet/_emotional_state.html   (6768 words)

  
 Ortodoksia and Humanness
But in the author himself the tranquillity is not felt, in him is sensed an irrational agitation for ortodoksness.
Amidst this, romanticism was understood as the liberating process of a new time, a developing of the emotional life of man, and romanticism led upwards to Fenelon and Russo.
Romanticism assumes the form not only of an emotional idealisation of nature, but also of an emotional idealisation of the historical past, of an historical tradition.
www.berdyaev.com /berdiaev/berd_lib/1937_424.html   (5138 words)

  
 emotional feelings
it's an emotional feeling "you tube video" that'll cause you to be more careful in how you transport your child(ren).
every emotion or feeling page has a dictionary definition at the top of the page.
This is an interesting topic that I've wanted to cover from the beginning of my website ventures....
emotionalfeelings.tripod.com /emotional_feelings/index.html   (2664 words)

  
 agitation - IceRocket Tag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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Another way to describe the relationship between emotions is in terms of the relationship between two dimensions; value and arousal… Value and Arousal Everythin...
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 Houston Swing Out! Forum - Swinging Audio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"Emotion: agitation or disturbance of the mind, vehement or excited mental state.
Apparently they play standards ranging from the post WWII era to Michael Buble.
But I swear, I've been listening to KZQX since I got to the office this afternoon, and they've played almost every song I've ever heard the El Orbits cover.
www.houstonswingout.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3758   (287 words)

  
 Emotion - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Emotion, term frequently and familiarly used as synonymous with feeling.
- agitation caused by strong feelings: agitation or disturbance caused by strong feelings
Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Emotion.html   (115 words)

  
 emotion - Definitions from Dictionary.com
any strong agitation of the feelings actuated by experiencing love, hate, fear, etc., and usually accompanied by certain physiological changes, as increased heartbeat or respiration, and often overt manifestation, as crying or shaking.
something that causes such a reaction: the powerful emotion of a great symphony.
Example: Fear, joy, anger, love, jealousy are all emotions.
dictionary.reference.com /browse/emotion   (325 words)

  
 LifeWorks Counseling Group
Affect: pattern of noticeable traits that express emotion, which fluctuate.
State of the Union Personal description of how an individual perceives his or her present emotional state (therapist to clients in marital sessions: what's the state of the union today?)
LifeWorks Counseling Associates is not affiliated with Ceridian Corporation or Lifeworks Onesource.
lifeworkscounseling.net /glossary.php   (312 words)

  
 Ginseng
Ginseng has been used for more than two millennia in China, where the earliest written description of its use appeared in a medical book written during the Han dynasty, before a.d.
At that time, the expert recommended it for "repairing the five viscera, quietening the spirit, curbing the emotion, stopping agitation, removing noxious influence, brightening the eyes, enlightening the mind, and increasing the wisdom."
It has been a favorite tonic in China ever since then.
www.healthcentral.com /peoplespharmacy/408/20636.html   (495 words)

  
 Panax Ginseng - The Crown Jewel
The first known reference to ginseng is in the 2,000-year-old classic Shen-Nong Ben Cao Jing, an herbal believed to have been compiled during the first century.
Written versions of this herbal describe ginseng's tonic qualities: "It is used for repairing the five viscera, quieting the spirit, curbing the emotion, stopping agitation, removing noxious influence, brightening the eyes, enlightening the mind and increasing the wisdom.
Continuous use leads one to longevity with light weight."
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