{"id":158,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"insula-for-emotions-?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Insula for Emotions ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the Insular an island for emotions ?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Non-invasive brain imaging reveals that the insular cortex is responsible for processing information from an array of often complex emotional and bodily states:
\n• pain,
\n• memory,
\n• empathy,
\n• emotions,
\n• gastric motility,
\n• sounds and music,
\n• language and speech,
\n• bio-mechanical movements,
\n• cravings for sweets, drugs, alcohol.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is the wellspring of social emotions, like:
\n• laughter and crying,
\n• guilt and atonement,
\n• pride and humiliation,
\n• lust (orgasms) and disgust,
\n• norm violations and moral intuition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers at Yale<\/span><\/a> recently identified two areas in the brain often associated with pain: the anterior cingulate cortex and insula cortex. They light up in response to (1) letting go of items you own and feel a connection to, and (2) when you feel physical pain from a cut or drinking coffee that’s too hot. The more you’ve committed financially or emotionally to something or someone, the more you want to stick with it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Still hoarding clutter, cravings, or compulsions?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

read more …<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Is the Insular an island for emotions ? Non-invasive brain imaging reveals that the insular cortex is responsible for processing information from an array of often complex emotional and bodily states: • pain, • memory, • empathy, • emotions, • gastric motility, • sounds and music, • language and speech, • bio-mechanical movements, • cravings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}