Mori claims his study has revealed that people who spend long periods playing video games have less activity in the brain's pre-frontal region, which governs emotion and creativity, in contrast to their peers.

His power operates by means of Empath's own brainwaves overriding the parts of the brain that govern emotion in others.

Dr. Nancy Minshew, a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Pittsburgh, argues that autism's core lies in higher brain areas, rather than in deeper structures that govern emotion.

Aroma therapists believe natural scents alter mood by reaching the portion of the brain that governs emotion.

The drive to write, on the other hand, is controlled by the limbic system, a ring-shaped cluster of cells deeply buried in the cortex which governs emotion, affiliated instincts and inspiration and is said to regulate the human being's need for communication.

Jana underwent surgery which resulted in damage to the part of her brain that governed emotion.

Cortical, limbic, and autonomic brain structures that govern emotion, consciousness, sense of self, and associated psychophysiological and behavioral traits (e.g., maternal behavior, facial recognition, moral development, play, sexual behavior, fear, aggression, affect regulation) are highly conserved evolutionarily.

Studies have shown that a glutamate receptor in the amygdala, a part of the brain that governs emotion, plays a role in learning to adjust to threatening stimuli.