Pavlovian safety learning: An integrative theoretical review

PAF Laing, B Vervliet, JE Dunsmoor… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Safety learning involves associating stimuli with the absence of threats, enabling the
inhibition of fear and anxiety. Despite growing interest in psychology, psychiatry, and …

Social factors and the neurobiology of pathogen avoidance

M Kavaliers, KP Ossenkopp, CD Tyson… - Biology …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although the evolutionary causes and consequences of pathogen avoidance have been
gaining increasing interest, there has been less attention paid to the proximate …

Blunted diurnal interleukin-6 rhythm is associated with amygdala emotional hyporeactivity and depression: a modulating role of gene-stressor interactions

Y Hakamata, H Hori, S Mizukami, S Izawa… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The immune system has major roles in the brain and related psychopathology.
Disrupted interleukin-6 secretion and aberrant amygdala emotional reactivity are well …

Behavioral and physiological sensitivity to natural sick faces

TS Leung, SE Maylott, G Zeng, DN Nascimben… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The capacity to rapidly detect and avoid sick people may be adaptive. Given that faces are
reliably available, as well as rapidly detected and processed, they may provide health …

Low-dose lithium adjunct to atypical antipsychotic treatment nearly improved cognitive impairment, deteriorated the gray-matter volume, and decreased the interleukin …

C Zhuo, S Hu, G Chen, L Yang, Z Cai, H Tian, D Jiang… - Schizophrenia, 2023 - nature.com
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of long-term low-dose lithium adjunct to
antipsychotic agent use on the cognitive performance, whole-brain gray-matter volume …

Visual cues of respiratory contagion: Their impact on neuroimmune activation and mucosal immune responses in humans

JK Keller, EK Diekhof - Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2025 - Elsevier
This study investigated the neural correlates of perceiving visual contagion cues
characteristic of respiratory infections through functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Neurobiology of Pathogen Avoidance and Mate Choice: Current and Future Directions

D Cantini, E Choleris, M Kavaliers - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The risk of parasitic infection has a major influence on animal behaviour.
Organisms must adjust their behaviour to avoid various modes of parasitic infection and …

Preference pro markery zdravotního stavu u člověka

F Jíchová - 2023 - dspace.cuni.cz
Několik evolučních hypotéz předpokládá, že se u různých organismů vyvinuly systematické
preference pro markery zdravotního stavu partnera. Tyto markery mohou být vodítkem …

Investigating Visual Vigilance Following Chronic Behavioural Immune System Activation

JL Hurtubise - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The behavioural immune system (BIS) is a coordinated set of cognitive, affective, and
behavioural responses that minimize pathogen contact. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic …