Stress and obesity

AJ Tomiyama - Annual review of psychology, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Many pathways connect stress and obesity, two highly prevalent problems facing society
today. First, stress interferes with cognitive processes such as executive function and self …

[HTML][HTML] Obsessive-compulsive disorder: puzzles and prospects

TW Robbins, MM Vaghi, P Banca - Neuron, 2019‏ - cell.com
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a severe and disabling psychiatric disorder that presents
several challenges for neuroscience. Recent advances in its genetic and developmental …

Childhood unpredictability and the development of exploration

Y Xu, MB Harms, CS Green, RC Wilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Early in development, the process of exploration helps children gather new information that
fosters learning about the world. Yet, it is unclear how childhood experiences may influence …

Addiction is driven by excessive goal-directed drug choice under negative affect: translational critique of habit and compulsion theory

L Hogarth - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020‏ - nature.com
Drug addiction may be a goal-directed choice driven by excessive drug value in negative
affective states, a habit driven by strong stimulus− response associations, or a compulsion …

Improving performance of robots using human-inspired approaches: a survey

H Qiao, S Zhong, Z Chen, H Wang - Science China Information Sciences, 2022‏ - Springer
Realizing high performance of ordinary robots is one of the core problems in robotic
research. Improving the performance of ordinary robots usually relies on the collaborative …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitive periods of substance abuse: Early risk for the transition to dependence

CJ Jordan, SL Andersen - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Early adolescent substance use dramatically increases the risk of lifelong substance use
disorder (SUD). An adolescent sensitive period evolved to allow the development of risk …

Mindfulness broadens awareness and builds eudaimonic meaning: A process model of mindful positive emotion regulation

EL Garland, NA Farb, P R. Goldin… - Psychological …, 2015‏ - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary scholarship on mindfulness casts it as a form of purely nonevaluative
engagement with experience. Yet, traditionally mindfulness was not intended to operate in a …

Stress, glucocorticoids and memory: implications for treating fear-related disorders

D de Quervain, L Schwabe… - Nature Reviews …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Glucocorticoid stress hormones are crucially involved in modulating mnemonic processing
of emotionally arousing experiences. They enhance the consolidation of new memories …

Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-directed control

CM Gillan, M Kosinski, R Whelan, EA Phelps, ND Daw - elife, 2016‏ - elifesciences.org
Prominent theories suggest that compulsive behaviors, characteristic of obsessive-
compulsive disorder and addiction, are driven by shared deficits in goal-directed control …

On the psychology of poverty

J Haushofer, E Fehr - science, 2014‏ - science.org
Poverty remains one of the most pressing problems facing the world; the mechanisms
through which poverty arises and perpetuates itself, however, are not well understood. Here …