Amy-g-dala

AMY-G-DALA SAYS

Lou Read is looking down on me

In a state of ecstatic agony, come

Walk on my wild side. I can't re-

Member what left its water mark 

Waterboy.

What took hold when you hit me

With a flower.. Your shock- therapy 

Was in my blood, ruined pages.

All I ever wanted was to write 

a good lyric in your vein.

Shoot up on the run feel like a cruci-

Fiction son but this word play is not

A game this is magic and loss

The science of Lou Read.

The bed sit in Dublin was miles

From  New York but you trans-

formed me into be a published poet. 

This is my gift to you, feel the energy 

of ecstasy and agony activate 

negative to positive emotion.

Amygdala was giving good head

On a bed while the world waited

down on the Street Hassle.

He gave me what no pop group could

An agony and ecstatic, thought to ex-

Pression, touch my positive implosion 

Needle me on your black vinyl.

I"m-poet-tent, Remasteraed, tomography.

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Stephan B Hamann 1, Timothy D Ely, John M Hoffman, Clinton D Kilts

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PMID: 11933997

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00425

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Abstract

Considerable evidence indicates that the amygdala plays a critical role in negative, aversive human emotions. Although researchers have speculated that the amygdala plays a role in positive emotion, little relevant evidence exists. We examined the neural correlates of positive and negative emotion using positron emission tomography (PET), focusing on the amygdala. Participants viewed positive and negative photographs, as well as interesting and uninteresting neutral photographs, during PET scanning. The left amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex were activated during positive emotion, and bilateral amygdala activation occurred during negative emotion. High-interest, unusual photographs also elicited left-amygdala activation, a finding consistent with suggestions that the amygdala is involved in vigilance reactions to associatively ambiguous stimuli. The current results constitute the first neuroimaging evidence for a role of the amygdala in positive emotional reactions elicited by visual stimuli. Although the amygdala appears to play a more extensive role in negative emotion, it is involved in positive emotion as well.