Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

The brain is constantly bombarded by stimuli, and the relative salience of these inputs
determines which are more likely to capture attention. A brain system known as the'salience …

Executive control is a complex high-level cognitive function that relies on distributed brain
circuitry. We propose that the anterior insular cortex plays an under-appreciated role in …

Background: The psycho-physiological changes in brain-body interaction observed in most
of meditative and relaxing practices rely on voluntary slowing down of breath frequency …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects multiple large-scale functional networks in the
brain, which has initiated a large number of studies on resting-state functional connectivity in …

This review synthesizes relations between mindfulness and resting-state fMRI functional
connectivity of brain networks. Mindfulness is characterized by present-moment awareness …

New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it
enables are directly dependent on social-emotional experience. Growing bodies of research …

Identifying brain alterations that contribute to suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are
important to develop more targeted and effective strategies to prevent suicide. In the last …

Postmortem studies have revealed increased density of excitatory synapses in the brains of
individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with a putative link to aberrant mTOR …

Abstract Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM) is the predominant method for inferring effective
connectivity from neuroimaging data. In the 15 years since its introduction, the neural …