Aberrant patterns of brain functional connectivity in the default mode network (DMN) have
been observed across different classes of substance use disorder (SUD) and are associated …

An essential tension can be found between researchers interested in ecological validity and
those concerned with maintaining experimental control. Research in the human …

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 …

An update to the classic text that links neuroscience and human behavior in the context of
therapy. This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has …

The current view of brain organization supports the notion that there is a considerable
degree of functional specialization and that many regions can be conceptualized as …

The question of the self has intrigued philosophers and psychologists for a long time. More
recently, distinct concepts of self have also been suggested in neuroscience. However, the …

Higher level cognitive processes are characteristically human. Until recently, these
processes were studied in a vacuum, separately from theaffective system, as if they were …

Experiences of emotion are content-rich events that emerge at the level of psychological
description, but must be causally constituted by neurobiological processes. This chapter …

The role of the brain in chronic pain conditions remains speculative. We compared brain
morphology of 26 chronic back pain (CBP) patients to matched control subjects, using …

For years, the brain has been viewed as a relatively static entity, determined by the
interaction of genetic preprogramming and early childhood experience. In contrast to this …