MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
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MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
23. Does The Brain Lead the Body: The Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
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What if your fear and your racing heart arrive at exactly the same moment, neither one causing the other?
In this episode, we explore the Cannon-Bard theory as a direct challenge to the James-Lange theory. We cover Cannon's four key criticisms of James-Lange, the role of the thalamus in generating simultaneous emotional and physiological responses, and LeDoux's low road model of fear processing.
Topics include the fight-or-flight response, the dual pathway theory of fear, the amygdala, and the clinical relevance of rapid subcortical fear processing to PTSD, phobias and exposure-based therapies.
Ideal for MRCPsych Part A revision, psychology students and anyone interested in the neuroscience of emotion.
Aligned with the Royal College of Psychiatrists MRCPsych Part A syllabus, paragraph 1.1.8.
