Functional imaging has helped to understand the role of the human insula as a major
processing network for integrating input with the current state of the body. However, these …

The right and left hemispheres host two complementary adaptive systems with a right-sided
prevalence of automatic and unconscious processing modes, typical of the 'emotional …

Background Men and women are known to show differences in the incidence and clinical
manifestations of mood and anxiety disorders. Many imaging studies have investigated the …

The goal of this narrative review paper is to consider forms of neurocognitive dysfunction
that increase risk for reactive and instrumental aggression. Neuro-cognitive functions that …

Studies have reported substantial variability in emotion recognition ability (ERA)–an
important social skill–but possible neural underpinnings for such individual differences are …

Introduction Affective temperaments are assumed to have biological and neural bases. In
the present study, we analyzed 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission …

Social dysfunction represents one of the most common signs of neuropsychiatric disorders,
such as Schizophrenia (SZ) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Perturbed socioaffective neural …

A recent meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging contrasts between emotional and neutral
face processing has shown that the processing of facial emotions can be better classified …

The subcortical visual pathway to the amygdala has long been considered a rapid and
crude stream for processing emotionally salient information that is reliant on low spatial …