In order for a feedback to occur, there must be a means for the viscera and autonomic nervous system to become activated.
Clinical neuropsychology
By Kenneth M. Heilman, Edward ValensteinOxford University Press
"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
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sympathectomy may retard aversive conditioning
"Researchers have examined the role of autonomic feedback in emotional experience using the heartbeat paradigm. Katkin at al. (1982) found that some normal subjects can accurately detect their heartbeats, and it was those individuals who had a stronger emotional response to negative slides as determined by self-report (Hantas et al., 1982). Further support for the importance of autonomic feedback comes from observations. Experiments in animals demonstrate that sympathectomy may retard aversive conditioning (DiGusto and King, 1972), most likely because sympathectomy reduces fear.
In order for a feedback to occur, there must be a means for the viscera and autonomic nervous system to become activated.
Oxford University Press
In order for a feedback to occur, there must be a means for the viscera and autonomic nervous system to become activated.
Oxford University Press