Mood disorders are associated with elevated inflammation, and the reduction of symptoms
after multiple treatments is often accompanied by pro-inflammation restoration. A variety of …

The orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala are involved in emotion and in motivation, but the
relationship between these functions performed by these brain structures is not clear. To …

Decades of neuroimaging studies have shown modest differences in brain structure and
connectivity in depression, hindering mechanistic insights or the identification of risk factors …

Anxiety is experienced in response to threats that are distal or uncertain, involving changes
in one's subjective state, autonomic responses, and behavior. Defensive and physiologic …

Schizophrenia is a leading cause of global disability. Current pharmacotherapy for the
disease predominantly uses one mechanism—dopamine D2 receptor blockade—but often …

Brain atlases are fundamental to understanding the topographic organization of the human
brain, yet many contemporary human atlases cover only the cerebral cortex, leaving the …

An electronic skin (e-skin) for the next generation of robots is expected to have biological
skin-like multimodal sensing, signal encoding, and preprocessing. To this end, it is …

Increasing evidence suggests that mental health and physical health are linked by neural
systems that jointly regulate somatic physiology and high-level cognition. Key systems …

The mesolimbic hypothesis has been a central dogma of schizophrenia for decades,
positing that aberrant functioning of midbrain dopamine projections to limbic regions causes …

Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including
perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a …