Modern decision neuroscience offers a powerful and broad account of human behaviour
using computational techniques that link psychological and neuroscientific approaches to …

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 …

Threat-anticipatory defensive responses have evolved to promote survival in a dynamic
world. While inherently adaptive, aberrant expression of defensive responses to potential …

When extreme, anxiety—a state of distress and arousal prototypically evoked by uncertain
danger—can be debilitating. Uncertain anticipation is a shared feature of situations that elicit …

The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) has been implicated in conditioned fear and
anxiety, but the specific factors that engage the BNST in defensive behaviors are unclear …

The movements an organism makes provide insights into its internal states and motives.
This principle is the foundation of the new field of computational ethology, which links rich …

Interpersonal space (IPS) is the area around the body that individuals maintain between
themselves and others during social interactions. When others violate our IPS, feeling of …

Every day, the world of media is at our fingertips, whether it is watching movies, listening to
the radio, or browsing online media. On average, people spend over 8 h per day consuming …

Decades of research suggest that the mesocortical dopamine system exerts powerful control
over mPFC physiology and function. Indeed, dopamine signaling in the medial prefrontal …

The central extended amygdala (EAc)—including the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
(BST) and central nucleus of the amygdala (Ce)—plays a critical role in triggering fear and …