Positive affect systematically influences performance on many cognitive tasks. A new
neuropsychological theory is proposed that accounts for many of these effects by assuming …

Humans are exceedingly social animals, but the neural underpinnings of social cognition
and behavior are not well understood. Studies in humans and other primates have pointed …

Functional neuroimaging studies of the anatomical correlates of familial major depressive
disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD) have identified abnormalities of resting blood flow …

ALTHOUGH there has been much investigation of brain pathways involved in pain, little is
known about the brain mechanisms involved in processing somatosensory stimuli which feel …

Heart rate telemetry was explored as a means to access animal emotion during social
interactions under naturalistic conditions. Heart rates of 2 middle-ranking adult females …

Preclinical data indicate that corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) has anxiogenic
properties and a dysregulation in CRH systems has been suggested to play a role in a …

The neurometabolic effects of the hallucinogen psilocybin (PSI; 0.2 mg/kg), the entactogen
3, 4-methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDE; 2 mg/kg) and the stimulant d …

The primate orbitofrontal cortex is a site of convergence of information from primary taste,
olfactory, and somatosensory cortical areas. We describe the responses of a population of …

The orbitofrontal cortex contains the secondary taste cortex, in which the reward value of
taste is represented. It also contains the secondary and tertiary olfactory cortical areas, in …

There are defined hypothalamic functions in the genesis of thirst, but little is known of the
cortical processes subserving consciousness of thirst notwithstanding the medical disorders …