Recent advances in human neuroimaging have shown that it is possible to accurately
decode a person's conscious experience based only on non-invasive measurements of their …

Building on animal and human lesion evidence, neuroimaging studies are increasingly
identifying abnormalities in corticolimbic circuits mediating aggressive behavior. This review …

New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a
worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most …

Successful control of affect partly depends on the capacity to modulate negative emotional
responses through the use of cognitive strategies (ie, reappraisal). Recent studies suggest …

The neural basis of motor response inhibition has drawn considerable attention in recent
imaging literature. Many studies have used the go/no-go or stop signal task to examine the …

Objective: The authors sought to test the hypothesis that in patients with borderline
personality disorder, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and associated regions would not be …

BACKGROUND: Emotional vulnerabilities at the core of borderline personality disorder
(BPD) involve a dysfunction of frontolimbic systems subserving negative emotionality. The …

A body of work has developed over the last 20 years that explores facial emotion perception
in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). We identified 25 behavioural and functional …

Impulse control is becoming a critical survival skill for the twenty-first century. Impulsivity is
implicated in virtually all externalizing behaviours and disorders, and figures prominently in …

Background Higher neuroticism personality trait individuals have more negative mood
states, more sensitive to negative information, and higher risk of mental illness. Good …