Florin Dolcos

Summary

Affiliation: Duke University Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Interaction between the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system predicts better memory for emotional events
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
    Neuron 42:855-63. 2004
  2. ncbi Hemispheric asymmetry and aging: right hemisphere decline or asymmetry reduction
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, PO Box 90999 or LSRC Building, Room B203, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Neurosci Biobehav Rev 26:819-25. 2002
  3. ncbi Event-related potentials of emotional memory: encoding pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral pictures
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 0999, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2:252-63. 2002
  4. ncbi Dissociable effects of arousal and valence on prefrontal activity indexing emotional evaluation and subsequent memory: an event-related fMRI study
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0999, USA
    Neuroimage 23:64-74. 2004
  5. ncbi Remembering one year later: role of the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system in retrieving emotional memories
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0999, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:2626-31. 2005
  6. ncbi Prefrontal mechanisms for executive control over emotional distraction are altered in major depression
    Lihong Wang
    Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    Psychiatry Res 163:143-55. 2008
  7. ncbi Effects of aging on functional connectivity of the amygdala for subsequent memory of negative pictures: a network analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data
    Peggy L St Jacques
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Psychol Sci 20:74-84. 2009
  8. ncbi Opposing influences of emotional and non-emotional distracters upon sustained prefrontal cortex activity during a delayed-response working memory task
    Florin Dolcos
    Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
    Neuropsychologia 46:326-35. 2008
  9. ncbi Brain activity during episodic retrieval of autobiographical and laboratory events: an fMRI study using a novel photo paradigm
    Roberto Cabeza
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 16:1583-94. 2004
  10. ncbi Regional brain differences in the effect of distraction during the delay interval of a working memory task
    Florin Dolcos
    Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Brain Res 1152:171-81. 2007

Detail Information

Publications23

  1. ncbi Interaction between the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system predicts better memory for emotional events
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
    Neuron 42:855-63. 2004
    ..These results provide direct evidence for the modulation hypothesis in humans and reveal a functional specialization within the MTL regarding the effects of emotion on memory formation...
  2. ncbi Hemispheric asymmetry and aging: right hemisphere decline or asymmetry reduction
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, PO Box 90999 or LSRC Building, Room B203, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Neurosci Biobehav Rev 26:819-25. 2002
    ..The right hemi-aging and the HAROLD models are not incompatible. For example, the latter may apply to prefrontal regions and the former to other brain regions...
  3. ncbi Event-related potentials of emotional memory: encoding pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral pictures
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 0999, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2:252-63. 2002
    ..This result suggests that emotional information has privileged access to processing resources, possibly leading to better memory formation...
  4. ncbi Dissociable effects of arousal and valence on prefrontal activity indexing emotional evaluation and subsequent memory: an event-related fMRI study
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0999, USA
    Neuroimage 23:64-74. 2004
    ..These results underscore the critical role of PFC in emotional evaluation and memory, and disentangle the effects of arousal and valence across PFC regions associated with different cognitive functions...
  5. ncbi Remembering one year later: role of the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system in retrieving emotional memories
    Florin Dolcos
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0999, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:2626-31. 2005
    ..These findings clarify the role of the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory regions in recollection and familiarity of emotional memory after lengthy retention intervals...
  6. ncbi Prefrontal mechanisms for executive control over emotional distraction are altered in major depression
    Lihong Wang
    Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    Psychiatry Res 163:143-55. 2008
    ..The results provide direct evidence of an alteration in the neural systems that interplay cognition with mood in MDD...
  7. ncbi Effects of aging on functional connectivity of the amygdala for subsequent memory of negative pictures: a network analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data
    Peggy L St Jacques
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Psychol Sci 20:74-84. 2009
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  8. ncbi Opposing influences of emotional and non-emotional distracters upon sustained prefrontal cortex activity during a delayed-response working memory task
    Florin Dolcos
    Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
    Neuropsychologia 46:326-35. 2008
    ....
  9. ncbi Brain activity during episodic retrieval of autobiographical and laboratory events: an fMRI study using a novel photo paradigm
    Roberto Cabeza
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 16:1583-94. 2004
    ..The photo paradigm provides a way of investigating the functional neuroanatomy of real-life episodic memory under rigorous experimental control...
  10. ncbi Regional brain differences in the effect of distraction during the delay interval of a working memory task
    Florin Dolcos
    Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Brain Res 1152:171-81. 2007
    ....
  11. ncbi Neural correlates of emotional processing in depression: changes with cognitive behavioral therapy and predictors of treatment response
    Maureen Ritchey
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Box 90999, LSRC Bldg Durham, NC 27708, USA
    J Psychiatr Res 45:577-87. 2011
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  12. ncbi Serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms and brain function during emotional distraction from cognitive processing in posttraumatic stress disorder
    Rajendra A Morey
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    BMC Psychiatry 11:76. 2011
    ..Similar patterns of differential neural responses to emotional stimuli have been demonstrated in PTSD but genetic factors influencing these activations have yet to be examined...
  13. ncbi Role of the inferior frontal cortex in coping with distracting emotions
    Florin Dolcos
    Duke-UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Neuroreport 17:1591-4. 2006
    ..controlling the subjective feeling of being distracted (right hemisphere)...
  14. ncbi Task-independent and task-specific age effects on brain activity during working memory, visual attention and episodic retrieval
    Roberto Cabeza
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Cereb Cortex 14:364-75. 2004
    ..Taken together, the results indicate that both common and specific factors play an important role in cognitive aging...
  15. ncbi Effects of aging on functional connectivity of the amygdala during negative evaluation: a network analysis of fMRI data
    Peggy St Jacques
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Neurobiol Aging 31:315-27. 2010
    ..Thus, age-related differences in evaluating negatively valenced stimuli might reflect decreased perceptual processing of these stimuli, as well as the engagement of control processes that inhibit the response to negative emotion...
  16. ncbi The role of trauma-related distractors on neural systems for working memory and emotion processing in posttraumatic stress disorder
    Rajendra A Morey
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    J Psychiatr Res 43:809-17. 2009
    ..Neural evidence for the impact of distraction on working memory is consistent with PTSD symptoms of hypervigilance and general distractibility during goal-directed cognitive processing...
  17. ncbi Depressive state- and disease-related alterations in neural responses to affective and executive challenges in geriatric depression
    Lihong Wang
    Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, PO Box 3918, Rm 163, Bell Building, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 165:863-71. 2008
    ..Identifying both depressive state-related and disease-related alterations in brain regions associated with emotion and cognitive function could provide useful diagnostic information in geriatric depression...
  18. ncbi Attention-related activity during episodic memory retrieval: a cross-function fMRI study
    Roberto Cabeza
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, PO Box 90999, LSRC Bldg, Rm B203, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Neuropsychologia 41:390-9. 2003
    ..Overall, the present results suggest that many of the activations attributed to specific cognitive processes, such as episodic memory, may actually reflect more general cognitive operations...
  19. ncbi Neural correlates associated with cognitive decline in late-life depression
    Lihong Wang
    Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, USA
    Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 20:653-63. 2012
    ..Persistent cognitive impairment (PCI) after remission of depressive symptoms is a major adverse outcome of late-life depression (LLD). The purpose of this study was to examine neural substrates associated with PCI in LLD...
  20. ncbi Neural correlates of promotion and prevention goal activation: an fMRI study using an idiographic approach
    Kari M Eddington
    Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Box 90085, 9 Flowers Drive, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    J Cogn Neurosci 19:1152-62. 2007
    ..Findings regarding prevention goal priming were not consistent with predictions. The data illustrate the centrality of self-regulation and personal goal pursuit within the multilayered process of social cognition...
  21. ncbi Role of amygdala connectivity in the persistence of emotional memories over time: an event-related FMRI investigation
    Maureen Ritchey
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Cereb Cortex 18:2494-504. 2008
    ..These results suggest that the amygdala and its connectivity with the MTL are critical to sustaining emotional memories over time, consistent with the consolidation hypothesis...
  22. ncbi Brain systems mediating cognitive interference by emotional distraction
    Florin Dolcos
    Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Neurosci 26:2072-9. 2006
    ....
  23. ncbi Similarities and differences in the neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval and working memory
    Roberto Cabeza
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
    Neuroimage 16:317-30. 2002
    ..Overall, our results show that direct cross-function comparisons are critical to understand the role of different brain regions in various cognitive functions...