Nightmares are common, occurring weekly in 4%-10% of the population, and are associated
with female gender, younger age, increased stress, psychopathology, and dispositional …

Humans are highly adept at differentiating, regulating, and responding to their emotions. At
the core of all these functions is emotional awareness: the conscious feeling states that are …

An update to the classic text that links neuroscience and human behavior in the context of
therapy. This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has …

Abstract The von Economo neurons (VENs) are large bipolar neurons located in
frontoinsular (FI) and anterior cingulate cortex in great apes and humans, but not other …

We describe a new type of agnosia consisting of an impairment in the ability to mentally
represent or know what one is feeling. Freud the neurologist coined the term “agnosia” in …

A recent article reports that human perception of heartbeat timing is mediated by right (non-
dominant) anterior insular cortex, and that the activity and the size of this region is directly …

Because awareness of emotional states in the self is a prerequisite to recognizing such
states in others, alexithymia (ALEX), difficulty in identifying and expressing one's own …

The von Economo neurons (VENs) are large bipolar neurons located in the frontoinsular
cortex (FI) and limbic anterior (LA) area in great apes and humans but not in other primates …

131 developmental psychology,(2) current data on brain development from neuroscience,(3)
updated basic research in biological psychiatry on stress mechanisms, and (4) new …

The goal of this study was to determine whether brain regions implicated in emotion
processing show structural alterations in adolescents with conduct disorder (CD). Using an …