The orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala are involved in emotion and in motivation, but the
relationship between these functions performed by these brain structures is not clear. To …

The local recurrent collateral connections between cortical neurons provide a basis for
attractor neural networks for memory, attention, decision-making, and thereby for many …

The human orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and anterior
cingulate cortex are involved in reward processing and thereby in emotion but are also …

In primates including humans, the orbitofrontal cortex is the key brain region representing
the reward value and subjective pleasantness of the sight, smell, taste and texture of food. At …

Risk-taking differs between humans, and is associated with the personality measures of
impulsivity and sensation-seeking. To analyse the brain systems involved, self-report risk …

Background Dysfunctional reward processing is implicated in multiple mental disorders.
Novelty seeking (NS) assesses preference for seeking novel experiences, which is linked to …

Background Nomophobia, the crippling fear of being disconnected from mobile devices, is a
burgeoning global concern. Given the critical nature of the profession of nursing students …

Background Acute alcohol-related behavioral disinhibition has been well studied. But
whether individual differences in the personality trait sensation seeking affect alcohol …

The aim was to investigate with very large-scale analyses whether there are underlying
functional connectivity differences between humans that relate to food reward and whether …

Adolescent risk‐taking, including sensation seeking (SS), is often attributed to
developmental changes in connectivity among brain regions implicated in cognitive control …