The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological
processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that …

How does our brain choose the best course of action? Choices between material goods are
thought to be steered by neural value signals that encode the rewarding properties of the …

Importance The social motivation hypothesis posits that individuals with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) find social stimuli less rewarding than do people with neurotypical activity …

Importance Social media platforms provide adolescents with unprecedented opportunities
for social interactions during a critical developmental period when the brain is especially …

Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous increase in our understanding of
structural and functional brain development in adolescence. However, understanding the …

Among frequently used motivation theories some are built on the premise of work happening
in the 60s and 70s. Since work life has changed dramatically the question arises whether …

The social motivation hypothesis of autism posits that infants with autism do not experience
social stimuli as rewarding, thereby leading to a cascade of potentially negative …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder. An important
diagnostic feature of PTSD is anhedonia, which may result from deficits in reward …

In the highly social life of humans, rewards that are sought and experienced are intertwined
with social relationships and interactions between people. Just as we value nonsocial …

Learning to make choices that yield rewarding outcomes requires the computation of three
distinct signals: stimulus values that are used to guide choices at the time of decision …