Topic summary
Homeostatic emotion
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Homeostatic feeling.
Neuroanatomist Arthur Craig called these motivating homeostatic feelings "homeostatic emotions" and found that anthropoid primates (humans, apes and monkeys) form an image of all of the body's unique homeostatic sensations in the brain's primary interoceptive cortex (located in the dorsal posterior insula). This image is re-represented in the mid- and anterior insula, and the anterior insula (modified by input from cognitive, affective and reward-related circuits) plays a role in conscious awareness of the whole body's homeostatic state. A sensation re-represented in the anterior insula and that sensation's related motivation (involving neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and other regions) form a homeostatic emotion.