Talk:Demystifying Depression/The Stress System

Reactions to Danger as important learning events
Since evolutionarily speaking our reactions to danger are of great importance to our survival, it goes hand in hand to say that how well we learn the correct reaction to dangerous situations also is of great importance.

As I have noted on the previous page's talk page, Value systems are contraint systems that alter our emotional states by regulating the release of chemicals that alter the weight of connections between neurons and neuronal groups, thereby influencing our learning processes. Since the state of Value Systems is taken to be synonymous with our emotional state, it carries forth the realisaton that our emotions are learning regulatory systems. Dramatically important learnng events, such as dangerous ones are bound to illict a dramatic response from the brains Value systems. (this emensely relivant connection seems to have been overlooked)--Scottmcmaster 05:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)