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Social influences on neuroplasticity: stress and interventions to promote well-beingRichard J Davidson
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior and Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Nat Neurosci 15:689-95. 2012..Structural and functional changes in the brain have been observed with cognitive therapy and certain forms of meditation and lead to the suggestion that well-being and other prosocial characteristics might be enhanced through training...
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...- Well-being and affective style: neural substrates and biobehavioural correlatesRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:1395-411. 2004..The article concludes with a consideration of whether these patterns of central and peripheral biology can be modified by training and shifted toward a more salubrious direction... - 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 - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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.... - 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... 
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...- 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... 
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...- 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... - 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... - 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... - Identifying robust and sensitive frequency bands for interrogating neural oscillationsAlexander J Shackman
Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and Clinics, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, USA
Neuroimage 51:1319-33. 2010.... - 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... - 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.... - BOLD signal in insula is differentially related to cardiac function during compassion meditation in experts vs. novicesAntoine Lutz
Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Neuroimage 47:1038-46. 2009..Future studies are needed to further investigate the impact of compassion training on these circuits... - 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.... - Theta phase synchrony and conscious target perception: impact of intensive mental trainingHeleen A Slagter
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1536-49. 2009..In combination, these findings illustrate the usefulness of systematic mental training in the study of the human mind by revealing the neural mechanisms that enable the brain to successfully represent target information... - Electromyogenic artifacts and electroencephalographic inferencesAlexander J Shackman
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, W J Brogden Hall, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Brain Topogr 22:7-12. 2009..We conclude by describing emerging methodological trends in this area that are likely to have substantial benefits for basic and applied EEG research... - Anticipatory activation in the amygdala and anterior cingulate in generalized anxiety disorder and prediction of treatment responseJack B Nitschke
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53705 2280, USA
Am J Psychiatry 166:302-10. 2009..This study tested whether patients with generalized anxiety disorder have alterations in anticipatory amygdala function and whether anticipatory activity in the anterior cingulate cortex predicts treatment response... - Stress potentiates early and attenuates late stages of visual processingAlexander J Shackman
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
J Neurosci 31:1156-61. 2011..These results provide a novel basis for understanding how stress can modulate information processing in everyday life and stress-sensitive disorders... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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)... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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)... - Right frontal brain activity, cortisol, and withdrawal behavior in 6-month-old infantsKristin A Buss
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
Behav Neurosci 117:11-20. 2003..EEG during the withdrawal-negative affect task was associated with fear and sadness behaviors. Results are interpreted in the context of the previous primate work, and some putative mechanisms are discussed... - 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... - Frontal brain asymmetry in restrained eatersJaime R Silva
Psychobiology Department, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
J Abnorm Psychol 111:676-81. 2002..Furthermore, relative right frontal activity was associated with greater self-reported restraint. Right-sided prefrontal asymmetry may thus represent a diathesis associated with increased vulnerability toward restrained eating... - 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... - 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.... - 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.... - Orbitofrontal cortex tracks positive mood in mothers viewing pictures of their newborn infantsJack B Nitschke
W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior and Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705 2280, USA
Neuroimage 21:583-92. 2004..Furthermore, individual variations in orbitofrontal activation to infant stimuli may reflect an important dimension of maternal attachment... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practiceAntoine Lutz
W M Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, and Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:16369-73. 2004..These data suggest that mental training involves temporal integrative mechanisms and may induce short-term and long-term neural changes... - Cortisol variation in humans affects memory for emotionally laden and neutral informationHeather C Abercrombie
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Behav Neurosci 117:505-16. 2003..Results suggest that the effects of cortisol on memory do not differ substantially for emotional and neutral information. The study provides evidence of beneficial effects of acute cortisol elevations on explicit memory in humans... - 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.... - 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...
Research Grants
- AFFECT, DEPRESSION AND BRAIN ASYMMETRYRichard Davidson; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- BRAIN FUNCTION AND AFFECTIVE STYLE IN MIDUS IIRichard Davidson; Fiscal Year: 2002..abstract_text> ..
- TRAINING PROGRAM IN EMOTION RESEARCHRichard Davidson; Fiscal Year: 2007..We believe this program is unique and provides an extraordinary opportunity for interdisciplinary training in emotion research. ..
- Neural substrates of affective style and emotion regulationRichard Davidson; Fiscal Year: 2007..This work will provide critical new information on the neurobiology of affective style. These new data will further our understanding of endophenotypes of affective processing that are associated with vulnerability to psychopathology. ..
- EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY AND ANTERIOR BRAIN ASYMMETRYRichard Davidson; Fiscal Year: 1993....
- AFFECT DEPRESSION AND BRAIN ASYMMETRYRichard Davidson; Fiscal Year: 1993..These studies will further our understanding of the neural mechanisms involved in depression and will provide critical new information on the use of measures of frontal activation asymmetry as state-independent markers of depression...
- EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY AND FRONTAL BRAIN ASYMMETRYRichard Davidson; Fiscal Year: 1990
- Neural substrates of affective style and emotion regulationRichard J Davidson; Fiscal Year: 2010..This work will provide critical new information on the neurobiology of affective style. These new data will further our understanding of endophenotypes of affective processing that are associated with vulnerability to psychopathology. ..