Psychobiology in relation to beliefs, knowledge and feelings

Psychobiology in relation to beliefs, knowledge and feelings

José M. BERTOLÍN-GUILLÉN

Doctor and graduate in Medicine and Surgery; Specialist physician in Psychiatry; Graduate in Psychology; Head of Mental Health and Psychiatry Service (retired) in a Department of Health, Ministry for Universal Healthcare and Public Health, Government of Valencia, Spain, EU

Background: Our anatomical-physiological nervous system, our beliefs, knowledge and affectivity are continuously interrelated, although they are often not well discriminated.

Method: This is not a revision, but rather, a qualitative, narrative research, with inclusive and interpretative variables.

Results: In practice, thoughts and feelings interwoven with actions conform the individual existential reality. The Jakob-Papez circuit of the limbic system is crucial to the processing of emotions, memories and learning. In particular, learning and memory need the integrity of the basolateral amygdala in the temporal lobe. It is indeed well known that the activity of the hippocampus and the amygdala is im-portant when it comes to memory. This paper will also comment on how stress affects learning and especially, the so-called emotional memory, and that both aggressiveness and violence, as well as the empathetic condition can all be considered parts of the same di-mension.

Conclusions: One’s will, beliefs and desires, integrated within the ideological domain explain, together with neurobiology, most of one’s behaviors, including aggres-siveness in general, and violence in particular. We will also emphasize that stress expo-sure, which has such complex effects in the mnemonic encoding, can produce profound changes in physiology and social behavior.

Keywords: Affectivity; Knowledge; Memory; Psychobiology; Psychopathology

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José M. BERTOLÍN-GUILLÉN. Mental health and validity of the psycho-neurobiological stress model. American Journal of Psychiatric Research and Reviews, 2022; 5:35. DOI: 10.28933/ajprr-2022-03-2605

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