The prefrontal cortex has a vital role in effective, organized behaviour. Both functional
neuroimaging in humans and electrophysiology in awake monkeys indicate that a …

Social cognitive neuroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research that seeks to
understand phenomena in terms of interactions between 3 levels of analysis: the social …

Comparative studies have implicated the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) in the anticipation of
incentives, but the relative responsiveness of this neural substrate during anticipation of …

Reward processing involves both appetitive and consummatory phases. We sought to
examine whether reward anticipation vs outcomes would recruit different regions of ventral …

The brain circuitry processing rewarding and aversive stimuli is hypothesized to be at the
core of motivated behavior. In this study, discrete categories of beautiful faces are shown to …

Neural responses accompanying anticipation and experience of monetary gains and losses
were monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Trials comprised an initial" …

We performed successive H215O-PET scans on volunteers as they ate chocolate to beyond
satiety. Thus, the sensory stimulus and act (eating) were held constant while the reward …

The Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) has been used to assess dysfunction of the
prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia. Previous brain imaging studies have focused on …

It is common clinical experience that anxiety about pain can exacerbate the pain sensation.
Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), we compared activation …

Previous functional brain imaging studies suggest that the ability to infer the intentions and
mental states of others (social cognition) is mediated by medial prefrontal cortex. Little is …