Further learnings, inclinations and ruminations living in a post-institutionalized world, emotionally akin to a poltergeist, guided through time and life almost spectrally, but with purpose, a pointed haunting through dull grey eyes. I am complete (ἐγὼ τὸ Α καὶ τὸ Ω) but am still determining proper ascension. W.S. Burroughs: I am a ghost wanting what every ghost wants - a body - after the Long Time moving through odorless alleys of space where no life is, only the colorless no smell of death... Nobody can breath and smell it through pink convolutions of gristle laced with crystal snot, time shit and black blood filters of flesh.” Rom 6:5-7: If we have, as it were, shared [h]is death, we shall also share in [h]is resurrection... a dead man can safely be said to be free from the power of sin. Alamut: Nič ni absolutna resničnost, je vse dovoljeno... And what one thing restricts that ascension more than anything else? Ask Deon Jackson: youtube/watch?v=16cAPO2tAGw It turns it but stops the self (Hart Crane: The phonographs of hades in the brain/Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love/a burnt match skating in a urinal-/Somewhere above Fourteenth TAKE THE EXPRESS/To brush some new presentiment of pain-) I am determined to assimilate it on a biological, emotional, mental, metaphysical and spiritual sense, representing it and producing it but not succumbing to it. CNTLSYS.run Laslocky, after Fisher, Brown, Aron, Strong, and Mashek (plus countless others, and a bit of my own Bryon Gysin-ing): Investigating the neural systems associated with romantic rejection may contribute understanding to the costly psychological, social, reproductive, and medical consequences of romantic rejection worldwide.... the caudate nucleus is associated with what psychologists call motivation and goal-oriented behavior, or the rewards system. Rejected lovers expressed significantly greater activity in the right nucleus accumbens core and ventral putamen/pallidum than did those who were happily-in-love... ...in the case of a lost love... if the relationship went on for a long time, the grieving person has thousands of neural circuits devoted to the lost person, and each of these has to be brought up and reconstructed to take into account the person’s absence. (youtube/watch?v=zMAe31FFHbo) ...romantic rejection would activate subcortical reward systems that mediate motivation and reward, specifically the ventral tegmental area... these areas are involved in feelings of romantic love, and adversity tends to heighten feelings of romantic love. Activation of the VTA in rejected individuals would provide further evidence that the VTA is involved in romantic love, even in this different context....romantic rejection would activate subcortical and cortical areas associated with drug craving, particularly the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex, because others have noted the similarity between romantic love and addiction.... (youtube/watch?v=elgXiZ3w_wg) ...happily-in-love participants... showed greater activity in the left ventral putamen/pallidum as the relationship increased in duration... In [the] rejected-in-love group, the greater the number of days since break-up was associated with less activity in the right ventral putamen/pallidum area suggesting that attachment-related responses might be decreasing across time. In addition, the number of days since break-up was positively associated with increasing activity in the right anterior cingulate gyrus, an area linked with cocaine craving. (youtube/watch?v=WQtsBB0cNWk) ...participants also showed greater activation during the viewing of the rejecter face relative to the neutral face in forebrain regions of the reward system: the ventral striatum and region of the nucleus accumbens core, ventral/pallidum/putamen, and orbitofrontal/prefrontal cortex. These brain regions are associated with the dopaminergic reward system, expected value, and anticipatory affect that “promotes approach toward uncertain outcomes” ...the accumbens, prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex are associated with the VTA and accumbens regions are engaged... activation in these regions generally reflects motivational relevance. (youtube/watch?v=Gx3CfL0oh6I) ...a large area of the anterior cingulate.. is involved in pain regulation... among... rejected individuals some regions associated with general emotional responses and pain were activated......the accumbens core mediates delayed reinforcement learning, or self-controlled choice, and that neural mechanisms in this region may be the basis of the persistence of addictive drug effects, including craving... the angular gyrus, associated with romantic love..., has also been associated with cigarette craving. ...The experience of romantic rejection involves the same neural systems that underlie various addictions. (youtube/watch?v=vhoofeTlNxA) These areas have been implicated in feedback-guided decision-making... including regions of the accumbens core, medial prefrontal cortex, and posterior cingulate, together assist[ing] in the subjective evaluation of immediate and delayed rewards and during reinforcement learning... these striatal and middle orbitofrontal cortex regions are associated with evaluating the choice one has made. The mid-orbitofrontal cortex where... subjects viewed the rejecter relative to the neutral has also been correlated with evaluating punishers and implementing appropriate adjustments in behavior. (youtube/watch?v=p5favl2Qtx0) A major difference in experimental design may contribute to... different results... [one] required participants to... ruminate about their grief. No external stimuli were provided.... [Another required] participants... to look at a photograph of their rejecter and... [were] required to actively remember incidents with this rejecting individual. These different approaches need further investigation because they may produce important differences in how the brain processes rejection and could potentially lead to considerably different therapeutic approaches to recovery from romantic rejection.... ...the sensorimotor responses associated with daily interactions with the rejecting individual become less strong over time, resulting in less activity in this posterior sensorimotor area, whereas the emotional attachment remained strong, as reflected in the anterior limbic area of the globus pallidus. (youtube/watch?v=CwSXfocnt48) ....participants look[ing[ at the photograph of their rejecting partner reflect[ing] on their rejection... were activating the nucleus accumbens, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, and medial prefrontal/orbitofrontal cortex, all regions involved in positive reassessment of negative emotional stimuli and learning. Also activity in the nucleus accumbens related to reward expectation can be modulated with cognitive strategies...; forms of therapy that encourage recently rejected individuals to actively recall the events that led to the dissolution of the relationship, rather than “ruminating” on their pain, could be a more effective mechanism for recovery. ...activation in the VTA, nucleus accumbens, and an extended forebrain gain/loss system... was adaptive or maladaptive... but it indicates the motivational relevance of the rejecter. Also the involvement of the dopamine-rich mesolimbic regions suggest behavior associated with romantic rejection has a basis in mammalian, (not only human) drives... ...individuals who were still “in love” with their rejecter supplies further evidence that the passion of romantic love is a goal-oriented motivation state rather than a specific emotion. (youtube/watch?v=9lzwuL-d6fk) WSB: “Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.” The only answers are more questions. lilyandbeyond.org/home/apply-online/activation-suite/caudate-nucleus/psychic-function-caudate-nucleus
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