Neurology Question

>>8504000
How can you quantify an emotion.

Dopamine ins't just used for emotion. It is also used for mechanical functions such as postural stability. this gives rise to the thought that these neurotransmitters are only associated with emotions, and not actually responsible for emotions themselves.

Also, if you take into account that people faint from severe stress, then yes there is some sort of limit to emotions, but each emotion may have their own limit.

I don't think concentration of neurotransmitters necessarily corresponds to 'intensity' of emotion (if such a thing could even be measured) - and I don't think you can reasonably say that emotion is entirely based on chemicals.

>>8504009
Mols of the corresponding chemical in your bloodstream, level of corresponding nervous system activity?

>>8504032
you're right they involve neuron firing in relation to wider neural architecture too.

>>8504015

yes dopamine for emotion or happiness is fast becoming a meme. Its thought neurotransmitters probably modulate uncertainty in predictive coding frameworks of the brain. Emotion has to be emergent out of this predictive coding framework in an ethological context and most likely is firmly based in interoceptive predictive hierarchies culminating in the agranular cortices around the cingulate dorsally and the insula ventrally. Probably the amygdala is specialistically involved (just pointing it out as a non-neocortical structure) as some sort of hub or interface for relevant stimuli and interoceptive regulation but it is not known how it works or why or even what it actually does, its just associated with certain things like anxiety though it isnt actually necessary for all emotion.
It won't just be dopamine that modulates emotion and emotional reaction but a broad range e.g. dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline, gaba, glutamate. Dopamine has alot more to be associated with motor, moto-cognitive and exploration based activity emerging as part of the cortio-striatal-thalamic-cortical loops than emotion per se. Again, we don't really know what the striatum does specifically. We know relatively little about the brain and its quite amazing that with respsect to that, dopamine grew into such a memetic status which im sure many neuroscientists would disagree with.

>>8504000
i think there is biology to how neurons react to lots of dopamine and receptors densities change/theres up or down regulation.

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>>8504070
>Mols of the corresponding chemical in your bloodstream, level of corresponding nervous system activity?
This is quite interesting, what is your major? You should do a paper on this.
Not even shitposting.