Background: Most of our social interactions involve perception of emotional information from
the faces of other people. Furthermore, such emotional processes are thought to be aberrant …

Models advanced to explain hemispheric asymmetries in representation of emotions will be
discussed following their historical progression. First, the clinical observations that have …

The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of
researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability …

We performed an updated quantitative meta-analysis of 162 neuroimaging studies of
emotion using a novel multi-level kernel-based approach, focusing on locating brain regions …

Context Vigilance for threat is a key feature of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The
amygdala and the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex constitute a neural circuit that is responsible …

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a behavioral syndrome that arises in early
childhood, often co-occurs with conduct disorder and leads, developmentally, to antisocial …

BACKGROUND: Converging evidence from animal and human lesion studies implicates the
amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in emotional regulation and aggressive behavior …

The human brain is not a passive organ simply waiting to be activated by external stimuli.
Instead, we propose that the brain continuously employs memory of past experiences to …

In the past few years, important contributions have been made to the study of emotional
visual perception. Researchers have reported responses to emotional stimuli in the human …

Major depression has been repeatedly associated with amygdala hyper‐responsiveness to
negative (but not positive) facial expressions at early, automatic stages of emotion …