Placebo effects are beneficial effects that are attributable to the brain–mind responses to the
context in which a treatment is delivered rather than to the specific actions of the drug. They …

Evolution has endowed all humans with a continuum of innate, hard-wired, automatically
activated defense behaviors, termed the defense cascade. Arousal is the first step in …

In recent years, an explosion of neuroimaging studies has examined cognitive reappraisal,
an emotion regulation strategy that involves changing the way one thinks about a stimulus in …

Feelings are mental experiences of body states. They signify physiological need (for
example, hunger), tissue injury (for example, pain), optimal function (for example, well …

Objective Emotion regulation is an adaptive ability affecting people's physical and mental
health, quality of life and functioning. In the present study we focused on the influence of the …

Emotions depend upon the integrated activity of neural networks that modulate arousal,
autonomic function, motor control, and somatosensation. Brainstem nodes play critical roles …

Value information about a drug, such as the price tag, can strongly affect its therapeutic
effect. We discovered that value information influences adverse treatment outcomes in …

Pain is a primary driver of learning and motivated action. It is also a target of learning, as
nociceptive brain responses are shaped by learning processes. We combined an …

Pain assessments typically depend on self-report of the pain experience. Yet, in individuals
with autism spectrum disorders, this can be an unreliable due to communication difficulties …

A CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2018. A novel approach to
understanding personality, based on evidence that we share more than we realize with …