The ventrolateral prefrontal cortices (VLPFC) are crucial regions involved in voluntary
emotion regulation. However, the lateralization of the VLPFC in downregulating negative …

Social feedback from parents has a profound impact on the development of a child's self-
concept. Yet, little is known about adolescents' affective and neural responses to parental …

Background Fear of abandonment and aloneness play a key role in the clinical
understanding interpersonal and attachment-specific problems in patients with borderline …

Highlights•Rejection sensitivity (RS) is positively associated with both schizotypy and
aggression.•Elevated RS in people with high schizotypy may be explained by …

It was not until the twentieth century that pain was considered a disease. Before that it was
managed medically as a symptom. The motivations for declaring chronic pain a disease …

Child maltreatment gives rise to atypical patterns of social functioning with peers which
might be particularly pronounced in early adolescence when peer influence typically peaks …

Human beings have a fundamental need to belong. Evaluating and dealing with social
exclusion and social inclusion events, which represent negative and positive social …

Although it has been found that self-esteem and self-concept clarity are positively correlated,
self-determination theory shows that the positive relationship might be lowered for …

People, including children, have an innate drive to “belong”—to feel connected to others and
maintain satisfying relationships. Fulfillment of this need requires stable, positive interactions …

Background Substance use (SU) typically increases from middle to late adolescence.
Anxiety is one factor associated with greater SU, although variability in who uses substances …