Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities

KD Davis, N Aghaeepour, AH Ahn, MS Angst… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Pain medication plays an important role in the treatment of acute and chronic pain
conditions, but some drugs, opioids in particular, have been overprescribed or prescribed …

Building better biomarkers: brain models in translational neuroimaging

CW Woo, LJ Chang, MA Lindquist, TD Wager - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Despite its great promise, neuroimaging has yet to substantially impact clinical practice and
public health. However, a developing synergy between emerging analysis techniques and …

A distributed fMRI-based signature for the subjective experience of fear

F Zhou, W Zhao, Z Qi, Y Geng, S Yao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The specific neural systems underlying the subjective feeling of fear are debated in affective
neuroscience. Here, we combine functional MRI with machine learning to identify and …

Evidence for embracing normative modeling

S Rutherford, P Barkema, IF Tso, C Sripada… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
In this work, we expand the normative model repository introduced in Rutherford et al.,
2022a to include normative models charting lifespan trajectories of structural surface area …

A network model of the emotional brain

L Pessoa - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Emotion is often understood in terms of a circumscribed set of cortical and subcortical brain
regions. I propose, instead, that emotion should be understood in terms of large-scale …

The relation between statistical power and inference in fMRI

HR Cremers, TD Wager, T Yarkoni - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Statistically underpowered studies can result in experimental failure even when all other
experimental considerations have been addressed impeccably. In fMRI the combination of a …

The experiences of individuals with cervical spinal cord injury and their family during post-injury care in non-specialised and specialised units in UK

J McRae, C Smith, A Emmanuel, S Beeke - BMC health services research, 2020 - Springer
Background Individuals with acute cervical spinal cord injury require specialised
interventions to ensure optimal clinical outcomes especially for respiratory, swallowing and …

Social, self,(situational), and affective processes in medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC): Causal, multivariate, and reverse inference evidence

MD Lieberman, MA Straccia, ML Meyer, M Du… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) has been posited to serve a variety of social, affective,
and cognitive functions. These conclusions have largely been driven by forward inference …

Decoding the nature of emotion in the brain

PA Kragel, KS LaBar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016 - cell.com
A central, unresolved problem in affective neuroscience is understanding how emotions are
represented in nervous system activity. After prior localization approaches largely failed …

Brain imaging tests for chronic pain: medical, legal and ethical issues and recommendations

KD Davis, H Flor, HT Greely, GD Iannetti… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Chronic pain is the greatest source of disability globally and claims related to chronic pain
feature in many insurance and medico-legal cases. Brain imaging (for example, functional …