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Anterior cingulate activity as a predictor of degree of treatment response in major depression: evidence from brain electrical tomography analysisD Pizzagalli
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA
Am J Psychiatry 158:405-15. 2001..Whereas prior studies used hemodynamic imaging, this investigation used EEG...
The neural substrates of affective processing in depressed patients treated with venlafaxineRichard J Davidson
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1202 West Johnson St, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:64-75. 2003..Relations between baseline neural activation and response to treatment were also evaluated...
Affective style, psychopathology, and resilience: brain mechanisms and plasticityR J Davidson
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Am Psychol 55:1196-214. 2000..Plasticity in this circuitry and its implications for transforming emotion and cultivating positive affect and resilience are considered...
Toward a biology of personality and emotionR J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 935:191-207. 2001..Experiential shaping of the brain circuitry underlying emotion is powerful. The neural architecture provides the final common pathway through which culture, social factors, and genetics all operate together...
Depression: perspectives from affective neuroscienceRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705 2280, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 53:545-74. 2002....
Darwin and the neural bases of emotion and affective styleRichard J Davidson
W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1000:316-36. 2003..Honoring brain circuitry in parsing the domain of affects will result in distinctions and differentiations that are not currently incorporated in traditional classification schemes...
Now you feel it, now you don't: frontal brain electrical asymmetry and individual differences in emotion regulationDaren C Jackson
University of Wisconsin Madison, 53706, USA
Psychol Sci 14:612-7. 2003..This relation between resting frontal activation and recovery following an aversive event supports the idea of a frontally mediated mechanism involved in one form of automatic emotion regulation...
Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditationRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Psychosom Med 65:564-70. 2003..We performed a randomized, controlled study on the effects on brain and immune function of a well-known and widely used 8-week clinical training program in mindfulness meditation applied in a work environment with healthy employees...
Seven sins in the study of emotion: correctives from affective neuroscienceRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Brain Cogn 52:129-32. 2003..The articles in this Special Issue underscore the vitality of research in affective neuroscience and illustrate how some of these sins can be addressed and rectified using concepts and methods from affective neuroscience...
Emotion, plasticity, context, and regulation: perspectives from affective neuroscienceR J Davidson
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison 53706, USA
Psychol Bull 126:890-909. 2000..Finally, implications of these data for understanding the impact on neural circuitry of interventions to promote positive affect and on mechanisms that govern health and disease are considered...
Regional brain function, emotion and disorders of emotionR J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 1696, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 9:228-34. 1999..Particular emphasis has been placed on the prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, parietal cortex, and the amygdala as critical components of the circuitry that may be dysfunctional in both depression and anxiety...
Anterior electrophysiological asymmetries, emotion, and depression: conceptual and methodological conundrumsR J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin Madison 53706, USA
Psychophysiology 35:607-14. 1998..Each of the articles has more consistency with our previously published data than the authors themselves suggest. Recommendations are made for future research to resolve some of the outstanding issues...
Individual differences in prefrontal activation asymmetry predict natural killer cell activity at rest and in response to challengeR J Davidson
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Brain Behav Immun 13:93-108. 1999..These findings indicate that individual differences in electrophysiological measures of asymmetric prefrontal activation account for a significant portion of variance in both basal levels of, and change in NK function...
Dysfunction in the neural circuitry of emotion regulation--a possible prelude to violenceR J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Science 289:591-4. 2000..Individuals vulnerable to faulty regulation of negative emotion are at risk for violence and aggression. Research on the neural circuitry of emotion regulation suggests new avenues of intervention for such at-risk populations...
Probing emotion in the developing brain: functional neuroimaging in the assessment of the neural substrates of emotion in normal and disordered children and adolescentsR J Davidson
Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 6:166-70. 2000..Some of the methodological complexities of developmental research in this area are discussed, and directions for future research are suggested...
Amygdalar and hippocampal substrates of anxious temperament differ in their heritabilityJonathan A Oler
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53719, USA
Nature 466:864-8. 2010..Even though these structures are closely linked, the results suggest differential influences of genes and environment on how these brain regions mediate AT and the ongoing risk of developing anxiety and depression...
Functional but not structural subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in melancholiaD A Pizzagalli
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Mol Psychiatry 9:325, 393-405. 2004..Based on preclinical evidence, we suggest that subgenual PFC dysfunction in melancholia may be associated with blunted hedonic response and exaggerated stress responsiveness...
Resting anterior cingulate activity and abnormal responses to errors in subjects with elevated depressive symptoms: a 128-channel EEG studyDiego A Pizzagalli
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 27:185-201. 2006..Because rostral ACC regions have been implicated in treatment response in depression, our findings provide initial insight into putative mechanisms fostering treatment response...
Spatio-temporal dynamics of brain mechanisms in aversive classical conditioning: high-density event-related potential and brain electrical tomography analysesDiego A Pizzagalli
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 W Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:184-94. 2003....
Frontal brain asymmetry and reward responsiveness: a source-localization studyDiego A Pizzagalli
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 16:805-13. 2005..8% of the variance in reward bias. These findings not only confirm that frontal EEG asymmetry modulates the propensity to engage in appetitively motivated behavior, but also provide anatomical details about the underlying brain systems...
The primate amygdala mediates acute fear but not the behavioral and physiological components of anxious temperamentN H Kalin
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53719, USA
J Neurosci 21:2067-74. 2001....
Subgenual prefrontal cortex activity predicts individual differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity across different contextsAllison L Jahn
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Biol Psychiatry 67:175-81. 2010....
The serotonin transporter genotype is associated with intermediate brain phenotypes that depend on the context of eliciting stressorN H Kalin
Department of Psychiatry, Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and Clinics, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI, USA
Mol Psychiatry 13:1021-7. 2008..These findings demonstrate context-dependent intermediate phenotypes in s carriers that provide a framework for understanding the mechanisms underlying the vulnerabilities of s-allele carriers exposed to different types of stressors...
Hippocampal morphometry in depressed patients and control subjects: relations to anxiety symptomsB D Rusch
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Biol Psychiatry 50:960-4. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: Because our subject group is younger than those in studies reporting hippocampal atrophy, we conclude that longitudinal studies will be necessary for investigation of the lifelong course of hippocampal volumetry...
Amygdalar interhemispheric functional connectivity differs between the non-depressed and depressed human brainWilliam Irwin
Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Affected Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Neuroimage 21:674-86. 2004..We interpret and discuss the nature of this connectivity in the depressed brain in the context of dysfunctional frontocortical-amygdalar interactions which accompany clinical depression...
Amygdala volume and nonverbal social impairment in adolescent and adult males with autismBrendon M Nacewicz
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1417-28. 2006..047). CONCLUSIONS: These findings best support a model of amygdala hyperactivity that could explain most volumetric findings in autism. Further psychophysiological and histopathological studies are indicated to confirm these findings...
Prefrontal social cognition network dysfunction underlying face encoding and social anxiety in fragile X syndromeLaura M Holsen
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, USA
Neuroimage 43:592-604. 2008..These data indicate that social anxiety in FXS may be related to the inability to successfully recruit higher level social cognition regions during the initial phases of memory formation...
Coupling of theta activity and glucose metabolism in the human rostral anterior cingulate cortex: an EEG/PET study of normal and depressed subjectsDiego A Pizzagalli
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Psychophysiology 40:939-49. 2003..The results reveal a link between theta and cerebral metabolism in the ACC as well as disruption of functional connectivity within frontocingulate pathways in depression...
Dynamic variation in pleasure in children predicts nonlinear change in lateral frontal brain electrical activitySharee N Light
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Dev Psychol 45:525-33. 2009..These findings indicate that task-dependent changes in pleasure relate to dynamic, nonlinear changes in lateral frontal activity as the task unfolds...
Anxiety selectively disrupts visuospatial working memoryAlexander J Shackman
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 59706, USA
Emotion 6:40-61. 2006..These observations suggest a revision of extant models of how anxiety sculpts cognition and underscore the utility of the desiderata...
Serotonin transporter availability in the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis predicts anxious temperament and brain glucose metabolic activityJonathan A Oler
Departments of Psychiatry, HealthEmotions Research Institute, University of Wisconsin Madison, 53719, USA
J Neurosci 29:9961-6. 2009..Collectively, these findings suggest that serotonergic modulation of neuronal excitability in the neural circuitry associated with anxiety mediates the developmental risk for affect-related psychopathology...
Orbitofrontal cortex lesions alter anxiety-related activity in the primate bed nucleus of stria terminalisAndrew S Fox
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53719, USA
J Neurosci 30:7023-7. 2010..Thus it appears that an important function of the OFC in response to threat is to modulate the BNST, which may more directly influence the expression of BI...
Brain electrical tomography in depression: the importance of symptom severity, anxiety, and melancholic featuresDiego A Pizzagalli
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 57305-2280, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:73-85. 2002....
Baseline EEG asymmetries and performance on neuropsychological tasksM J Hoptman
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Neuropsychologia 36:1343-53. 1998....
Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging measures of neural activity to positive social stimuli in pre- and post-treatment depressionHillary S Schaefer
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2280, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:974-86. 2006..These findings underscore the importance of addressing social dysfunction in research and treatment of depression...
Individual differences in the effects of perceived controllability on pain perception: critical role of the prefrontal cortexTim V Salomons
University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 19:993-1003. 2007....
Differential effects on pain intensity and unpleasantness of two meditation practicesDavid M Perlman
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Emotion 10:65-71. 2010..Implications are discussed in the broader context of training-induced changes in trait emotion regulation...
Anxiety and affective style: role of prefrontal cortex and amygdalaRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Biol Psychiatry 51:68-80. 2002..Emphasis is placed on affective chronometry, or the time course of emotional responding, as a key attribute of individual differences in propensity for anxiety that is regulated by this circuitry...
Amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex are inversely coupled during regulation of negative affect and predict the diurnal pattern of cortisol secretion among older adultsHeather L Urry
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
J Neurosci 26:4415-25. 2006..Individual differences yielded the predicted link between brain function while reducing negative affect in the laboratory and diurnal regulation of endocrine activity in the home environment...
Brain mechanisms of expectation associated with insula and amygdala response to aversive taste: implications for placeboIssidoros Sarinopoulos
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705-2274, USA
Brain Behav Immun 20:120-32. 2006..Altering expectancies of upcoming aversive events are shown here to depend on robust functional associations among brain regions implicated in prior work on the placebo effect...
EEG alpha power and alpha power asymmetry in sleep and wakefulnessR M Benca
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Psychophysiology 36:430-6. 1999..During sleep, alpha power was highest during slow-wave sleep and lowest during REM sleep. Implications of these data for understanding the functional significance of alpha power during waking and sleeping are considered...
Lending a hand: social regulation of the neural response to threatJames A Coan
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 22904, USA
Psychol Sci 17:1032-9. 2006....
Individual differences in amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity are associated with evaluation speed and psychological well-beingCarien M van Reekum
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 52706, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 19:237-48. 2007....
Affective judgments of faces modulate early activity (approximately 160 ms) within the fusiform gyriDiegon A Pizzagalli
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705, USA
Neuroimage 16:663-77. 2002..Increased FG activation for liked faces may thus be interpreted as reflecting enhanced attention due to their saliency...
Individual differences in some (but not all) medial prefrontal regions reflect cognitive demand while regulating unpleasant emotionHeather L Urry
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Neuroimage 47:852-63. 2009....
Mental training enhances attentional stability: neural and behavioral evidenceAntoine Lutz
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Neurosci 29:13418-27. 2009..These novel findings highlight the mechanisms underlying focused attention meditation and support the notion that mental training can significantly affect attention and brain function...
Placebo-induced changes in FMRI in the anticipation and experience of painTor D Wager
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1109, USA
Science 303:1162-7. 2004....
Fear is fast in phobic individuals: amygdala activation in response to fear-relevant stimuliChristine L Larson
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1116, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:410-7. 2006..We hypothesized that activation of the amygdala early in the presentation of fear-relevant visual stimuli would distinguish phobics from nonphobics...
Prefrontal brain electrical asymmetry predicts the evaluation of affective stimuliS K Sutton
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, P O Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
Neuropsychologia 38:1723-33. 2000..Relations between word-pair selection and asymmetry in resting brain activity at central and posterior sites were not significant...
Manipulating affective state using extended picture presentationsS K Sutton
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA
Psychophysiology 34:217-26. 1997....
Stability of emotion-modulated startle during short and long picture presentationChristine L Larson
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1116, USA
Psychophysiology 42:604-10. 2005..In addition, comparable and, in some cases, greater stability of emotion modulation was found for short compared to long picture presentations. Stability was generally low for individual probe times for both groups...
Neural circuitry underlying the interaction between emotion and asthma symptom exacerbationMelissa A Rosenkranz
Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:13319-24. 2005....
Serotonin transporter binding and genotype in the nonhuman primate brain using [C-11]DASB PETB T Christian
Department of Psychiatry, Harlow Primate Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
Neuroimage 47:1230-6. 2009..Using the rhesus monkey, we examined the extent to which serotonin transporter genotype is associated with 5-HT transporter binding in brain regions implicated in emotion-related pathology...
Manipulating smoking motivation: impact on an electrophysiological index of approach motivationM C Zinser
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Denver 80217 3364, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 108:240-54. 1999..Results also suggested that smoking anticipation increased overall (bihemispheric) EEG activation. Results were interpreted in terms of major theories of drug motivation...
In vivo kinetics of [F-18]MEFWAY: a comparison with [C-11]WAY100635 and [F-18]MPPF in the nonhuman primateD W Wooten
Department of Medical Physics, Harlow Primate Center, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53593, USA
Synapse 65:592-600. 2011..The goal of this work was to compare the in vivo kinetics of [F-18]mefway, [F-18]MPPF, and [C-11]WAY100635 in the rhesus monkey...
Brain function and gaze fixation during facial-emotion processing in fragile X and autismKim M Dalton
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705 2208, USA
Autism Res 1:231-9. 2008....
Tensor-based cortical surface morphometry via weighted spherical harmonic representationMoo K Chung
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, and the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
IEEE Trans Med Imaging 27:1143-51. 2008..As an illustration, the methodology has been applied in the problem of detecting abnormal cortical regions in the group of high functioning autistic subjects...
An imaging roadmap for biology education: from nanoparticles to whole organismsDaniel J Kelley
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53705, USA
CBE Life Sci Educ 7:202-9. 2008..The NIH Roadmap provides a useful context to educate students about the multidisciplinary imaging continuum...
Affective neuroscience and psychophysiology: toward a synthesisRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Psychophysiology 40:655-65. 2003..The implications of this body of work for a broader conception of psychophysiology and for training the next generation of psychophysiologists are considered in the conclusion...
Trait-like brain activity during adolescence predicts anxious temperament in primatesAndrew S Fox
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2570. 2008..In addition, the findings provide an explanation for why individuals with anxious temperament have difficulty relaxing in environments that others perceive as non-stressful...
The voice of emotion: an FMRI study of neural responses to angry and happy vocal expressionsTom Johnstone
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior Psychology Department, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 1:242-9. 2006..Our results identify a network of regions implicated in the processing of vocal emotion, and suggest a particularly salient role for vocal expressions of happiness...
Affective neural circuitry and mind-body influences in asthmaMelissa A Rosenkranz
University of Wisconsin Madison, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, 1500 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Neuroimage 47:972-80. 2009....
Cortisol's effects on hippocampal activation in depressed patients are related to alterations in memory formationHeather C Abercrombie
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Psychiatry, Madison, WI, USA
J Psychiatr Res 45:15-23. 2011..Our data also show that in both depressed men and women, cortisol's effects on emotional memory formation and hippocampal function are related...
Creating physical 3D stereolithograph models of brain and skullDaniel J Kelley
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e1119. 2007..Compared to 2D images, VR and stereolithograph models provide an extra dimension that enhances both the quality of visual information and utility of surface visualization in neuroscience and medicine...
Validation of ICA-based myogenic artifact correction for scalp and source-localized EEGBrenton W McMenamin
Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Neuroimage 49:2416-32. 2010..In light of these results, several practical suggestions and recommendations are made for intelligently using ICA to minimize EMG and other common artifacts...
Normative emotion-modulated startle response in individuals at risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disordersDiane C Gooding
University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, 1202 W Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706 1696, USA
Schizophr Res 57:109-20. 2002..These findings suggest that the affective deficits reported by socially anhedonic individuals are not global in nature...
Right dorsolateral prefrontal cortical activity and behavioral inhibitionAlexander J Shackman
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Psychol Sci 20:1500-6. 2009..This observation provides novel support for recent conceptualizations of behavioral inhibition and clues to the mechanisms that might underlie variation in threat-induced negative affect...
Reduced capacity to sustain positive emotion in major depression reflects diminished maintenance of fronto-striatal brain activationAaron S Heller
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:22445-50. 2009..These findings support the hypothesis that anhedonia in depressed patients reflects the inability to sustain engagement of structures involved in positive affect and reward...
Topological characterization of signal in brain images using min-max diagramsMoo K Chung
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 12:158-66. 2009..As an application, we have used this method to characterize cortical thickness measures along brain surfaces in classifying autistic subjects. Our promising experimental results provide evidence of the power of this representation...
Early stress is associated with alterations in the orbitofrontal cortex: a tensor-based morphometry investigation of brain structure and behavioral riskJamie L Hanson
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Neurosci 30:7466-72. 2010..These data suggest a biological mechanism linking early social learning to later behavioral outcomes...
Gaze fixations predict brain activation during the voluntary regulation of picture-induced negative affectCarien M van Reekum
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Neuroimage 36:1041-55. 2007..Furthermore, this variation in gaze fixation accounted for substantial amounts of variance in brain activation. These data point to the importance of controlling for gaze fixation in studies of emotion regulation that use visual stimuli...
Weighted fourier series representation and its application to quantifying the amount of gray matterMoo K Chung
Department of Statistics, Biostatistics, and Medical Informatics, and the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
IEEE Trans Med Imaging 26:566-81. 2007..html. As an illustration, the WFS is applied i n quantifying the amount ofgray matter in a group of high functioning autistic subjects. Within the WFS framework, cortical thickness and gray matter density are computed and compared...
Bridging psychology and biology. The analysis of individuals in groupsStephen M Kosslyn
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 830 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Am Psychol 57:341-51. 2002....
Less white matter concentration in autism: 2D voxel-based morphometryMoo K Chung
Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Neuroimage 23:242-51. 2004..Further, it is shown that the less white matter concentration in the corpus callosum in autism is due to hypoplasia rather than atrophy...
Disambiguating the components of emotion regulationH H Goldsmith
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, USA
Child Dev 75:361-5. 2004..Individual differences in emotion regulation and a focus on the context of emotion experience and expression provide additional tools to study emotion regulation, and its development, from a biobehavioral perspective...
Motion correction and the use of motion covariates in multiple-subject fMRI analysisTom Johnstone
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 27:779-88. 2006..Based on these results, we present a general strategy for block designs, event-related designs, and hybrid designs to identify and eliminate probable motion artifacts while maximizing sensitivity to true activations...
Unattended facial expressions asymmetrically bias the concurrent processing of nonemotional informationJeffrey S Maxwell
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1386-95. 2005..By contrast, under high load, only angry distractors produced greater RH than LH interference as a function of anxiety...
Altering expectancy dampens neural response to aversive taste in primary taste cortexJack B Nitschke
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705 2274, USA
Nat Neurosci 9:435-42. 2006..In addition, the activation of the right insula and operculum tracked online ratings of the aversiveness for each taste. Such expectancy-driven modulation of primary sensory cortex may affect perceptions of external events...
Acute cortisol elevations cause heightened arousal ratings of objectively nonarousing stimuliHeather C Abercrombie
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA
Emotion 5:354-9. 2005..However, cortisol was unrelated to self-reported affective state. Thus, findings indicate that acute cortisol elevations cause heightened arousal in response to objectively nonarousing stimuli, in the absence of effects on mood...
Gaze fixation and the neural circuitry of face processing in autismKim M Dalton
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705 2280, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:519-26. 2005..In addition, variation in eye fixation within autistic individuals was strongly and positively associated with amygdala activation across both studies, suggesting a heightened emotional response associated with gaze fixation in autism...
Psychological well-being and ill-being: do they have distinct or mirrored biological correlates?Carol D Ryff
Institute on Aging, Medical Science Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Psychother Psychosom 75:85-95. 2006..e. well-being and ill-being correlate similarly with biomarkers, but show opposite directional signs), whereas independence predicts 'distinct' biological correlates (i.e. well-being and ill-being have different biological signatures)...
The role of the central nucleus of the amygdala in mediating fear and anxiety in the primateNed H Kalin
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53719, USA
J Neurosci 24:5506-15. 2004..These findings suggest that in primates, the CeA is involved in mediating fear- and anxiety-related behavioral and pituitary-adrenal responses as well as in modulating brain CRF activity...
Comparison of fMRI motion correction software toolsT R Oakes
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53705, USA
Neuroimage 28:529-43. 2005....
Individual differences in repressive-defensiveness predict basal salivary cortisol levelsL L Brown
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 70:362-71. 1996..Also discussed is the possible mediational role of individual differences in responsivity to, or mobilization for, uncertainty or change...
Exploring Hindu Indian emotion expressions: evidence for accurate recognition by Americans and IndiansA Hejmadi
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6196, USA
Psychol Sci 11:183-7. 2000..Participants from both countries were quite accurate in identifying emotions correctly using both fixed-choice (65% correct, expected value of 9%) and free-response (61% correct, expected value close to zero) methods...
Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitionersJ A Brefczynski Lewis
W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53226, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:11483-8. 2007..Correlation with hours of practice suggests possible plasticity in these mechanisms...
Startle potentiation in aversive anticipation: evidence for state but not trait effectsJack B Nitschke
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706 1696, USA
Psychophysiology 39:254-8. 2002..These data suggest that the aversive nature of stimuli contribute to the potentiation of startle above and beyond the effects of emotional arousal, which may be a universal phenomenon not modulated by individual differences...
Social relationships, sleep quality, and interleukin-6 in aging womenElliot M Friedman
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:18757-62. 2005....
The cerebral response during subjective choice with and without self-referenceSterling C Johnson
William S Middleton VA Medical Center, Madison, WI 53705, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1897-906. 2005..The findings suggest that self-referential processing, rather than subjective judgments among ambiguous response alternatives, accounted for the AMPFC and RSC response...
Stability of amygdala BOLD response to fearful faces over multiple scan sessionsTom Johnstone
W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, WI 53705, USA
Neuroimage 25:1112-23. 2005..Future studies might manipulate the experimental design to either amplify or attenuate this variability, according to the goals of the research...
Cortical thickness analysis in autism with heat kernel smoothingMoo K Chung
Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Neuroimage 25:1256-65. 2005..As an illustration, we apply our methods in detecting the regions of abnormal cortical thickness in 16 high functioning autistic children via random field based multiple comparison correction that utilizes the new smoothing technique...
Common and distinct patterns of affective response in dimensions of anxiety and depressionChristine L Larson
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116 US
Emotion 7:182-91. 2007..Common and unique patterns of affective responses in the 3 types of mood symptoms are discussed...
Asymmetries in face and brain related to emotionRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:389-91. 2004..These findings have implications for understanding hemispheric differences in emotion and lend support to the notion that aspects of emotion processing might be differentially localized in the two hemispheres...
What does the prefrontal cortex "do" in affect: perspectives on frontal EEG asymmetry researchRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Neuroimaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Biol Psychol 67:219-33. 2004..A number of methodological issues associated with EEG measures of functional prefrontal asymmetries are also considered...
Failure to regulate: counterproductive recruitment of top-down prefrontal-subcortical circuitry in major depressionTom Johnstone
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Neurosci 27:8877-84. 2007....
Socioeconomic status predicts objective and subjective sleep quality in aging womenElliot M Friedman
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
Psychosom Med 69:682-91. 2007..Epidemiological studies linking SES and sleep quality have traditionally relied on self-reported assessments of sleep...
A functional magnetic resonance imaging predictor of treatment response to venlafaxine in generalized anxiety disorderPaul J Whalen
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
Biol Psychiatry 63:858-63. 2008..Here, we sought to determine whether pretreatment amygdala and rostral ACC (rACC) reactivity to facial expressions could predict treatment outcomes in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)...
The privileged status of emotion in the brainRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:11915-6. 2004
Emotion as motion: asymmetries in approach and avoidant actionsJeffrey S Maxwell
University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, USA
Psychol Sci 18:1113-9. 2007..Collectively, these findings have direct implications for models of embodied emotional and perceptual processing, as well as for investigations of individual differences in emotional disposition...
Voluntary facial displays of pain increase suffering in response to nociceptive stimulationTim V Salomons
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Pain 9:443-8. 2008..This suggests that exaggerated facial displays of pain, although often socially reinforced, may also have unintended aversive consequences...
Glucose metabolic changes in the prefrontal cortex are associated with HPA axis response to a psychosocial stressorSimone Kern
Klinik und Poliklinik fur Neurologie, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:517-29. 2008....
