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Objective: To establish an intensity-classified Chinese facial emotion image database and provide materials for emotional researches in China. Methods: Firstly, under the guidance of professional director, 22 professional dramatic actors put up seven kinds of emotion, including anger, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise, happy and calm. The process of facial emotional performance of actors were filmed by a high-speed camera. Then we made screen captures according to the intensity of emotion performed by the actors. A total of 814 black-and-white photographs with same size and gray level were made after we removed the irrelevant parts to the facial features. Each kind of emotion contains six levels of intensity scoring from 1 to 6. Totally, 112 healthy volunteers were recruited to evaluate the emotional intensity, pleasure and arousal of all images via a visual scale ranged from 0 to 100. Results: A Chinese face emotional intensity hierarchical picture library was set up, which contained 2 sublibraries. The first library was consisted of 436 images with hierarchical emotional intensity images collected from different performers. The second one was built with 640 images, in which the hierarchical emotional intensity image was collected from same actor/actress. Both image libraries had corresponding scores for intensity, pleasure, and arousal. Furthermore, both exhibited a high degree of internal consistency in reliability analysis (with a Cronbach' s alpha value larger than 0. 9). Conclusion: The present study has established an intensity-classified Chinese facial emotion image database with good recognition degree and psychological measurement attribution, which could provide materials for emotional researches in China.
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Objective To compare the effects of single and complex emotional stimuli on animal model of liver depression syndrome,in order to find out an animal model of liver depression syndrome with more similar clinical manifestations.Methods Based on the previous screening work,different methods,i.e.tail clamping,limb binding,putting a cangue on the neck,were used respectively,or using the three methods in combination to establish rat models of liver depression syndrome.A comparison table of human and rat liver depression syndrome was prepared,a mark sheet of evaluation criteria was made,general condition was observed and body weight was measured,and positive response to drugs and changes of hormonal levels were evaluated to identify whether the models were established successfully.Results Rats in the control group grew well and showed no abnormalities.There were lots of abnormal phenomena in the model group especially in the complex emotional stimulus modeling group.They were maniac with acute stress or depressive with chronic stress,had dry hair,small and less feces,many of the rats had hair loss,red eyes and shortness of breath symptom.They showed a significantly lower body weight gain and higher levels of CRH in hypothalamus and plasma ACTH and CORT.The manifestations were much more severe in the complex-emotional stimuli-induced model group than that in the single-stimulus prepared model groups.The drug-treated group showed considerable alleviation of the symptoms and improvement of the parameters closing to normal levels.Conclutions Establishing the rat model of stagnation of liver depression syndrome by complex emotional stimuli modeling method has good stability,with a short preparation period and high success rate,and presenting a better consistence with clinical liver stagnation of depression syndrome,so as to provide a suitable tool for TCM research.
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Objective:The human parental brain is a discrete set of interacting brain circuits that related with child-care feelings and behaviors.The research on it can help us to understand the essence of human parent-child re-lationship formation.In order to provide materials for the research of human parental brain and related fields,the study is ready to establish a set of standardized Chinese Infant Affective Face Picture System.Methods:By using convenience sampling,a total of 360 infant facial expression pictures of 211 Chinese infants aged from 3 to 6 months were collected.After standard processing on the photos,196 unmarried and nulliparous college students re-cruited from two universities in Chongqing and Guiyang were asked to assess them.One hundred subjects assessed the emotion categories and intensity of the pictures,and other 96 subjects assessed the emotion valence,arousal and dominance of the selected pictures.Results:The Chinese Infant Affective Face Picture System,containing 117 hap-py,92 neutral,108 sad expression pictures,was established.At the same time,the corresponding average identifica-tion rate were 89%,77%,92%,the intensity were 5.83,5.15,and 6.19,the valence were 5.92,4.55 and 2.70,the arousal were 5.11,4.18,3.77,and the dominance were 5.02,4.93,and 4.91.The system could effectively stimu-late participants'emotional reactions.There were statistically significant differences in scores of the established va-lence,arousal and dominance index between the 3 kinds of expression pictures (Ps <0.01).Conclusion:The Chi-nese Infant Affective Face Picture System has higher reliability and validity.The system could be used as emotional stimulus materials for the study of parental brain or emotion researches.