The study of fear extinction represents an important example of translational neuroscience in
psychiatry and promises to improve the understanding and treatment of anxiety and fear …

The brain's default mode network (DMN) has become closely associated with self-referential
mental activity, particularly in the resting-state. While the DMN is important for such …

Classical Pavlovian fear conditioning remains the most widely employed experimental
model of fear and anxiety, and continues to inform contemporary pathophysiological …

Psychiatric disorders are phenotypically heterogeneous entities with a complex genetic
basis. To mitigate this complexity, many investigators study so-called intermediate …

The pFC is critical for cognitive flexibility (ie, our ability to flexibly adjust behavior to changing
environmental demands), but also for cognitive stability (ie, our ability to follow behavioral …

Adolescence is a time when the ability to engage cognitive control is linked to crucial life
outcomes. Despite a historical focus on prefrontal cortex functioning, recent evidence …

The ability to represent concepts and the relationships between them is critical to human
cognition. How does the brain code relationships between items that share basic conceptual …

Resting state brain networks (RSNs) are spatially distributed large-scale networks,
evidenced by resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies …

Fibromyalgia typically presents with spontaneous body pain with no apparent cause and is
considered pathophysiologically to be a functional disorder of somatosensory processing …

Despite the heterogeneous symptom presentation and complex etiology of major depressive
disorder (MDD), functional neuroimaging studies have shown with remarkable consistency …