Chronic stress and depressive-like behaviors in basic neuroscience research have been
associated with impairments of neuroplasticity, such as neuronal atrophy and synaptic loss …

Cognitive science has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the onset,
maintenance, and treatment of depression. Research conducted over the last 50 years …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

A large body of research has implicated difficulties in emotion regulation as central to the
development and maintenance of psychopathology. Emotion regulation has therefore been …

Importance Computational psychiatry studies have investigated how reinforcement learning
may be different in individuals with mood and anxiety disorders compared with control …

Most research on mind-wandering has characterized it as a mental state with contents that
are task unrelated or stimulus independent. However, the dynamics of mind-wandering …

Abstract Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is an affective disorder with sustained negative
affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect as its hallmark features. Previous work also …

Cognitive deficits are now widely recognized to be an important component of anxiety. In
particular, anxiety is thought to restrict the capacity of working memory by competing with …

Depression is associated with social risk factors, social impairments and poor social
functioning. This paper gives an overview of these social aspects using the NIMH Research …

The current review and synthesis was designed to provocatively develop and evaluate the
proposition that “fear of the unknown may be a, or possibly the, fundamental fear”(Carleton …