In response to rapidly growing rates of comorbidity among psychiatric disorders, clinical
scientists have become interested in identifying transdiagnostic processes that can help�…

Experiences of emotion are content-rich events that emerge at the level of psychological
description, but must be causally constituted by neurobiological processes. This chapter�…

This review begins with a brief historical overview of attempts in the first half of the 20th
century to discern brain systems that underlie emotion and emotional behavior. These early�…

Progress in the study of emotion and emotion regulation has increasingly been informed by
neuroscientific methods. This article focuses on two components of the event-related�…

The psychology of extinction has been studied for decades. Approximately 10 years ago,
however, there began a concerted effort to understand the neural circuits of extinction of fear�…

Rapidly emerging evidence continues to describe an intimate and causal relationship
between sleep and emotional brain function. These findings are mirrored by long-standing�…

BACKGROUND: A clinical characteristic of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is
persistently elevated fear responses to stimuli associated with the traumatic event. The�…

Current models of conditioned fear expression and extinction involve the basolateral
amygdala (BLA), ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and the hippocampus (HPC)�…

In non-human mammals, the neuropeptide oxytocin is a key mediator of complex emotional
and social behaviors, including attachment, social recognition, and aggression. Oxytocin�…

The review summarizes and integrates findings from 40 years of event-related potential
(ERP) studies using pictures that differ in valence (unpleasant-to-pleasant) and arousal (low�…