Recent years have witnessed the emergence of powerful new tools for assaying the brain
and a remarkable acceleration of research focused on the interplay of emotion and …

Anxiety and fear-related disorders are common and disabling, and they significantly
increase risk for suicide and other causes of morbidity and mortality. However, there is …

Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine are concerned with medical conditions affecting
brain, mind and behaviour in manifold ways. Traditional approaches have focused on a …

An intrinsic feature of the develo** brain is high susceptibility to environmental influence—
known as plasticity. Research indicates cascading disruption to neurological development …

Regions of the prefrontal and cingulate cortices play important roles in the regulation of
behaviors elicited by threat. Dissecting out their differential involvement will greatly increase …

Background Processes of phasic fear responses to threatening stimuli are thought to be
distinct from sustained, anticipatory anxiety toward an unpredicted, potential threat. There is …

Primate comparative anatomy is an established field that has made rich and substantial
contributions to neuroscience. However, the labor-intensive techniques employed mean that …

Objective Infant amygdala connectivity correlates with maternal reports of infant
temperament characterized by novelty-evoked distress and avoidance. However, no studies …

Background Little is known about the frontolimbic abnormalities thought to underlie
borderline personality disorder (BPD). We endeavoured to study regional responses, as well …

Background Executive function (EF) difficulties characterise a number of psychiatric
conditions and EF impairment may be a predisposing factor and/or consequence of anxiety …