Background: The anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders. It is manifest by
disturbances of mood, as well as of thinking, behaviour, and physiological activity. It includes …

The brain is expensive, incurring high material and metabolic costs for its size—relative to
the size of the body—and many aspects of brain network organization can be mostly …

Exposure to derogatory language about immigrants and minority groups leads to political
radicalization and deteriorates intergroup relations. This article addresses the psychological …

The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

Chronic pain conditions are associated with abnormalities in brain structure and function.
Moreover, some studies indicate that brain activity related to the subjective perception of …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

One fundamental question concerning brain reward mechanisms is to determine how
reward-related activity is influenced by the nature of rewards. Here, we review the …

Recent human imaging and animal studies highlight the importance of frontoamygdala
circuitry in the regulation of emotional behavior and its disruption in anxiety-related …

Although cells in many brain regions respond to reward, the cortical-basal ganglia circuit is
at the heart of the reward system. The key structures in this network are the anterior …

Anxiety disorders are a significant problem in the community, and recent neuroimaging
research has focused on determining the brain circuits that underlie them. Research on the …