1. The document describes the sinking of the Titanic and how one man's love for a woman led him to sacrifice himself so that she could survive. 2. It explores the nature of emotions and how they are processed in the limbic system of the brain. Different temperaments may respond differently to emotional stimuli. 3. Adaptability is the ability to cope with stressful situations, and this depends on one's "emotional stretchability" or limbic adaptive threshold. Failure of this system can lead to symptoms like depression.

1. By.
Stephen Yusuf

2. We all watched with a tearful awe
As the British ocean liner sunk its human cargo
into the deep, dark and cold belle of the Atlantic
ocean
As their screams forms a symphony with the
raging tides, and Celine Dion lased the movie
with hers…
In that chaotic display of life’s treaty with death
A flame of love was lighted, the warmth of
which spares a soul
LOVE THAT BINDS IN SEPRATION

3.  Emotion:- from the French word ‘‘emouvoir’’
which means ‘‘to stir up the feelings of
someone..’’
 So emotions is a heightened state of feelings,
passion, or sensation caused by an external
drive which could be human(person), object,
words, music e.t.c.
 Emotion is active not passive

4.  Adaptability:- to adapt simply means to
change, alter, modify in other to fit better to a
prevailing uncomfortable situation and or
condition.
 It is a coping mechanism
 It is measured by the degree of perseverance.
 Adapt-ability deals with each individual’s
stretch-ability, i.e. ability to withstand
stressful, uncomfortable situation and in this
context, Emotional stretch-ability

5.  Emotion is a full product of our consciousness
 It is control by the interplay of chemical as
well as electrical impulses from the brain
 The seat of emotion is the limbic system
which also house our social and cultural
values and norms.
 Emotions are thus a pivot beam of our integral
selves.

6.  The areas of cerebral cortex included in the
region of the limbic system is the limbic lobe.
 The processing of high tech info and functions
are confirmed here.
 Activities necessary for survival of the specie
including sex behaviour.
 Emotional behaviour as well as retention of
recent memory.

8.  This small and rather hiding area in the brain
emit similar impulse in each person with no
difference in strength or mapping.
 From my point of view, being the emotional
driver and behavioral modulator, each person is
suppose to respond to emotional stimuli in the
same manner.
 That is, every specie will act in the same way
provided with same stimuli (love or hate.)

9.  The ideal phenomenon is what is
expected, i.e. the similarity of response and
degree of tussle to an external emotional
stimuli.
 But this is hardly seen in reality.
 People differ profoundly in the way they
respond or act to emotional stimuli.
 Temperament is a product of the difference in
limbic response to behaviors and external
stimuli. Theory from the first principle(stephen1)

12.  These are products of temperaments.
 Based on proto-psychology.
 4 temperament each corresponding to a body
fluid thought to affect personality and trait.
1. Sanguine (pleasure seeking and sociable)
2. Choleric (ambitious and leader-like)
3. Melancholic (introvert and thoughtful)
4. Phlegmatic (relaxed and quiet)

13.  Melancholic have heightened emotions and
are more affected by its injury.
 Cholerics never get emotionally down.
 Sanguine don’t have time to show or exhibit
emotion but do feel it.
 Phlegmatic are sympathetic and will rather
avoid deep disturbing conditions.

14.  Activities increases motor stimuli and motor
impulse interpretations by the cerebral cortex,
thus there is a relative refraction to emotional
stimuli. The sanguinoid response ( 4th
principle)
 Ego drive and self possessiveness depress the
emotional pathway more. Why??? Choleticoid
response (5th principle)

15.  Limbic adaptive threshold: there is a level of
noxious stimuli to the limbic system that
translate to the limbic lobe on the cerebral
cortex for intellectual rationalization and
adaptation via the coping mechanism
pathways. Theory from 2nd principle(stephen2)
 This cause the host to develop or generate
skills necessary for adaptation to such
condition.

16.  Depression, pains, headaches, anhedonia,
social withdrawal e.t.c
 Are all symptoms of the failure of the limbic
adaptive threshold which can be cause by:
1. Neglect of suboptimal stimuli
2. Above normal emotional stimuli which then
becomes hard to curtail or manage.
The host assumes a partial state of inhibition
and withdrawal to try and recover himself from
the shock.

17. How about Asperger's
syndrome???

18. 1. Reaction formation
2. Undoing
3. Rationalization
4. Activities
5. Denial
6. Blame shifting
7. Auditory

19.  The predominant motor coping mechanism
seems to be the most effective WHY??
 The limbic lobe response in action to subtle or
aggressive stimuli, since its response is motor
essentially, then I propound that a negative
inhibition will subvert when more motor
functions are activated (negative feedback)
more so for a counter contralateral motor
action. Theory from 3rd principle (stephen3)

21.  These fronto-cortical coping mechanism may
not be very effective, this is due to their
stimulatory and emotional nature
 They also discourage motor action
 They stimulate the sympathetic system thus
increase fear and insecurities
 They are depressing and uninteresting
 They are dominating and possesive

24. After the iceberg and ship were broken
The people’s spirit and soul was taken
Their bodies in mid-ocean frozen.
…love nurtured, love given
His heart and life was hers for a taken
For love, his body in stillness below the sea
descended
For hers to ascend
He went and was gone, glued only to history
She left and with scar moved on…

25. Discussion

26.  Jay 25yr old final year student , 1st child in a
family of 5 nurtures a deeply genuine love for a
close friend Sarah 23yrs. He watched that
affection grow as their friendship strengthens for
over 5years. The day he decided to tell her was
the day she came to show him her engagement
ring.
 EEG was normal except for occasional hyps-pikes
 BP was high and Pulse was bounding
 Failed trial at hypnotization

27.  Tim. 27yrs had 2 failed relationships to his
record and 4 negative answers (no) to his
subsequent proposals, all of which has
severely affected him. Now he is in love with
another lady but scared he could not be able
to stand another ‘no’.
 Vitals were within normal range
 EEG not done

28.  Ruth Chooses to stay all day behind closed
door far removed from people in tears. This
was noticed a day after having a date-dinner
with her closed friend Caleb.

29.  Emotion, behavior, affect and mood are the
some total of the deep inward expressiveness
of man, and the right modulator is needed at
any point in time to keep that fulcrum
balanced.
N.B
 The neurochemical hypothesis propounded in
this studies are direct product of reasoning
and interplay of pre-existing phenomenon
(not lab. tested)

30. Questions?

31.  Indebir Singh, text book of human neuroanatomy.
2006 Jaypee 6th edit.
 Johnson Gregory. Johnson’s theories of emotion;
gregory.s.johnson@drexel.edu
 Wikipedia materials; temperaments, 4
temperaments.
 Ganong text book of physiology 22nd edit.
 Niraj Ahuja; short text of Psychiatry, jaypee, 6th
edit.
 Davidson’s text book of medicine.
 Old theories of philosophy .