Fear conditioning and extinction are basic forms of associative learning that have gained
considerable clinical relevance in enhancing our understanding of anxiety disorders and …

The amygdala is a key component in predominant neural circuitry models of psychopathy.
Yet, after two decades of neuroimaging research on psychopathy, the reproducibility of …

Removal of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is an effective surgical treatment for intractable
temporal lobe epilepsy but carries a risk of language and verbal memory deficits …

Emotional sensitivity, emotion regulation and impulsivity are fundamental topics in research
of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Studies using fMRI examining the neural correlates …

Reappraisal, the cognitive reevaluation of a potentially emotionally arousing event, has
been proposed to be based upon top-down appraisal systems within the prefrontal cortex …

Background: Spider phobics show an exaggerated fear response when encountering
spiders. This fear response is aggravated by negative and irrational beliefs about the feared …

Partial removal of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is a highly effective surgical treatment for
intractable temporal lobe epilepsy, yet roughly half of patients who undergo left ATL …

Affective experience colours everyday perception and cognition, yet its fundamental and
neurobiological basis is poorly understood. The current debate essentially centers around …

Emotion instability in borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been associated with an
impaired fronto-limbic inhibitory network. However, functional connectivity (FC) underlying …

Purpose: Language lateralization measured by preoperative functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) was shown recently to be predictive of verbal memory outcome in patients …