Why the physical reaction of crying to the emotions of sadness, anger and happiness? What makes this happen?

Question

I'm only concerned with what's going on in the brain causing this to happen (i.e. parts of the brain that these emotions effect and why or what messages they pass along to cause this result).

Answer 1

IT'S THE PART OF THE BRAIN THAT SEND MESSAGES TO THE BODY TO LET IT KNOW WHAT OR HOW IT IS BEING ATTACKED. JUST LIKE YOU YELP OUT LOUD WHEN SOMEONE SUDDENLY JABS YOU. THE BRAIN SENDS YOU A MESSAGE TO MAKE A NOISE TO DEFEND YOURSELF. WHEN YOU CRY, LAUGH, GET ANGRY, IT'S THE BRAIN'S ACTIVITY KEEPING YOU ALERT OF WHICH EMOTION TO RELEASE. OTHERWISE YOU WOULD BE A ZOMBE YOUR DEFENSE MECHANISM HAS BEEN PROGRAMMED TO REACT APPROPRIATELY TO EACH SITUATION. THAT'S GOD'S WORK, NEAT HUH?

Answer 2

Your question is specifically concerned with the physical manifestation of tears and the vocalizations associated with tears. My personal theory is that there is a reliving of anxieties, a charge of insulin and adrenaline of a level appropriate to a real threat, but the threat does not exist externally in the here-now. When an emotion is recalled in this way there is a mixture and a contradiction of time and space, of past and present. The negation of the internal content is the non being of despar or sorrow, the emptiness inside, the tears clear the eyes. It is the terror of the unknown or the pity we feel for another.

I don't think you shall find much neurologically because I think it is the release from brain control rather than an extra excertion from the brain that allows the expression to progress. It is a reconnection to the internally suppressed memories for which we have unanswered questions. Suppression is the negation, and unanswered questions the unknown. However, the moment before that emotional expression or catharsis my guess is there is a great deal of activity, then a stoppage. This is typical of premotor reaction, decision, but as it is mostly of the internally unknown, there is probably something unfinished, a trailing on or residual activity.

Brain geography: amygdala (emotion-memory)

What is the neurological description for consciousness. I think you are expecting too much from the observation neural activity.

Answer 3

maybe something to do with the neurons and transmitters through the brain like the adrenaline we experience in that fight/flight syndrome.

Let me look this up.


Emotions and your brain
Emotions enable us to react to situations - for example, anger or fear will set your heart racing, and feeling happy will make you smile. One of the key areas of your brain that deals with showing, recognising and controlling the body's reactions to emotions is known as the limbic system.