Psychobiotics were previously defined as live bacteria (probiotics) which, when ingested,
confer mental health benefits through interactions with commensal gut bacteria. We expand …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects approximately 2–3% of the population and is
characterized by recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Changes in gut microbiota have been reported to alter signaling
mechanisms, emotional behavior, and visceral nociceptive reflexes in rodents. However …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

A widely used technique for coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data is
activation likelihood estimation (ALE), which determines the convergence of foci reported …

Progress in the study of emotion and emotion regulation has increasingly been informed by
neuroscientific methods. This article focuses on two components of the event-related …

Background: Most of our social interactions involve perception of emotional information from
the faces of other people. Furthermore, such emotional processes are thought to be aberrant …

A new framework for maintaining mental health and well-being. From the author of the
internationally-acclaimed best-selling text The Develo** Mind, and esteemed leader and …

The review summarizes and integrates findings from 40 years of event-related potential
(ERP) studies using pictures that differ in valence (unpleasant-to-pleasant) and arousal (low …

Interest in the neuroscience of emotion has increased dramatically over the course of the
last two decades. The rapid growth and popularity, however, have come with a definitional …