The prevailing neurocircuitry models of anxiety disorders have been amygdalocentric in
form. The bases for such models have progressed from theoretical considerations�…

What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the
time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality�…

Excessive fear and anxiety are hallmarks of a variety of disabling anxiety disorders that
affect millions of people throughout the world. Hence, a greater understanding of the brain�…

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) comprises a set of interconnected regions that
integrate information from affective sensory and social cues, long-term memory, and�…

The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological
processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that�…

Once acquired, a fearful memory can persist for a lifetime. Although learned fear can be
extinguished, extinction memories are fragile. The resilience of fear memories to extinction�…

The present volume on concepts, cognition, emotion, and behavior, is the first in this new
Handbook series. The purpose of this first chapter is to provide an outline of stress, stress�…

The dynamic interactions between the amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
are usefully conceptualized as a circuit that both allows us to react automatically to�…

For years, the brain has been viewed as a relatively static entity, determined by the
interaction of genetic preprogramming and early childhood experience. In contrast to this�…

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�…