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 …

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of powerful new tools for assaying the brain
and a remarkable acceleration of research focused on the interplay of emotion and …

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'–Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point …

Abstract The Entangled Brain (Pessoa, L., 2002. MIT Press) promotes the idea that we need
to understand the brain as a complex, entangled system. Why does the complex systems …

The consequences of chronic stress on brain structure and function are far reaching.
Whereas stress can produce short-term adaptive changes in the brain, chronic stress leads …

Anxiety disorders impose a staggering burden on public health, underscoring the need to
develop a deeper understanding of the distributed neural circuits underlying extreme fear …

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Research in experimental psychopathology and cognitive theories of anxiety highlight threat-
related attention biases (ABs) and underpin the development of a computer-delivered …

The central extended amygdala is an evolutionarily conserved set of interconnected brain
regions that play an important role in threat processing to promote survival. Two core …

The human brain is able to exceed modern computers on multiple computational demands
(eg, language, planning) using a small fraction of the energy. The mystery of how the brain …