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The pupil as a measure of emotional arousal and autonomic activationMargaret M Bradley
Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, Box 112766, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Psychophysiology 45:602-7. 2008Pupil diameter was monitored during picture viewing to assess effects of hedonic valence and emotional arousal on pupillary responses...
Neural activity in the human brain relating to uncertainty and arousal during anticipationH D Critchley
Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, 12 Queen Square, Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N 3BG, London, United Kingdom
Neuron 29:537-45. 2001..between reward-related decisions and their outcomes, and the modulation of this delay activity by uncertainty and arousal. Feedback, indicating financial gain or loss, was given following a fixed delay...
Affective processing within 1/10th of a second: High arousal is necessary for early facilitative processing of negative but not positive wordsMarkus J Hofmann
Free University Berlin, Germany
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 9:389-97. 2009Lexical decisions to high- and low-arousal negative words and to low-arousal neutral and positive words were examined in an event-related potentials (ERP) study...
Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythmsClifford B Saper
Department of Neurology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, USA
Nature 437:1257-63. 2005..A key switch in the hypothalamus shuts off this arousal system during sleep...
Central thalamic contributions to arousal regulation and neurological disorders of consciousnessNicholas D Schiff
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuromodulation, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1129:105-18. 2008This review focuses on the contributions of the central thalamus to normal mechanisms of arousal regulation and to neurological disorders of consciousness...
The role of physiological arousal in time perception: psychophysiological evidence from an emotion regulation paradigmN Mella
Unit of Cognitive Neurosciences and Cerebral Imaging, CNRS, Paris, France
Brain Cogn 75:182-7. 2011Time perception, crucial for adaptive behavior, has been shown to be altered by emotion. An arousal-dependent mechanism is proposed to account for such an effect...
Neural correlates of processing valence and arousal in affective wordsP A Lewis
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Cereb Cortex 17:742-8. 2007Psychological frameworks conceptualize emotion along 2 dimensions, "valence" and "arousal." Arousal invokes a single axis of intensity increasing from neutral to maximally arousing...
Buzzwords: early cortical responses to emotional words during readingJohanna Kissler
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Psychol Sci 18:475-80. 2007..early processing stages, emotion-related enhancement of cortical activity along the dominant processing pathway is due to arousal, rather than valence of the stimuli. This enhancement may be driven by cortico-amygdaloid connections.
Neuropeptide S: a neuropeptide promoting arousal and anxiolytic-like effectsYan Ling Xu
Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
Neuron 43:487-97. 2004b>Arousal and anxiety are behavioral responses that involve complex neurocircuitries and multiple neurochemical components...
Recolonizing carnivores and naïve prey: conservation lessons from Pleistocene extinctionsJ Berger
Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89512, USA
Science 291:1036-9. 2001..The fact that at least one prey species quickly learns to be wary of restored carnivores should negate fears about localized prey extinction...
Dissociable effects of arousal and valence on prefrontal activity indexing emotional evaluation and subsequent memory: an event-related fMRI studyFlorin Dolcos
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0999, USA
Neuroimage 23:64-74. 2004..The effect of arousal on these measures was indicated by greater activity for both positive and negative pictures than for neutral ones,..
Sex differences in emotion: expression, experience, and physiologyA M Kring
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 74:686-703. 1998..Results replicated those from Study 1, and gender role characteristics and family expressiveness moderated the relationship between sex and expressivity...
Both predator and prey: emotional arousal in threat and rewardAndreas Löw
Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, P O Box 112766, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Psychol Sci 19:865-73. 2008This research examined the psychophysiology of emotional arousal anticipatory to potentially aversive and highly pleasant outcomes...
Eye movements predict recollective experienceTali Sharot
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 3:e2884. 2008..In turn, during recognition remembering may be trigged by enhanced memory for the salient details of the photos...
Sertraline to improve arousal and alertness in severe traumatic brain injury secondary to motor vehicle crashesJ M Meythaler
University of Alabama at Birmingham Model Traumatic Brain Injury System Spain Rehabilitation Center, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA
Brain Inj 15:321-31. 2001To establish whether or not the serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) sertraline can improve arousal and alertness of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and associated diffuse axonal injury (DAI)...
Modulation of cortical activation and behavioral arousal by cholinergic and orexinergic systemsBarbara E Jones
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A2B4, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1129:26-34. 2008..to the promotion and maintenance of the wake state, which is characterized by cortical activation and behavioral arousal. Using predominantly glutamate as a neurotransmitter, neurons within the reticular formation of the brainstem ..
Affective picture processing and motivational relevance: arousal and valence effects on ERPs in an oddball taskKate E Briggs
School of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 30, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Int J Psychophysiol 72:299-306. 2009..ERPs) were recorded from 34 participants during a modified oddball paradigm in which levels of stimulus valence, arousal, and motivational relevance were systematically varied...
Emotional arousal enhances declarative memory in patients with Alzheimer's diseaseC Satler
Laboratory of Neurosciences and Behavior, and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Brasilia, Asa Norte, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Acta Neurol Scand 116:355-60. 2007To verify whether the long-term retention of an emotionally arousing story is stronger than the retention of a neutral story, and the enhancing effects of emotional arousal on declarative memory in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.
Hormonal cycle modulates arousal circuitry in women using functional magnetic resonance imagingJill M Goldstein
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Connors Center for Women s Health and Gender Biology, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosci 25:9309-16. 2005..the early follicular menstrual cycle phase compared with late follicular/midcycle, using negative valence/high arousal versus neutral visual stimuli, validated by concomitant electrodermal activity (EDA)...
Reassessment of the structural basis of the ascending arousal systemPatrick M Fuller
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Comp Neurol 519:933-56. 2011..whether the cortical afferents from the thalamus or the basal forebrain were more important in maintaining arousal, we first placed large cell-body-specific lesions in these targets...
Elevated pain thresholds correlate with dissociation and aversive arousal in patients with borderline personality disorderPetra Ludäscher
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg Medical School, Germany
Psychiatry Res 149:291-6. 2007..in to healthy controls as well as a positive correlation between pain thresholds and symptoms of stress (aversive arousal and dissociation) in BPD patients...
PTSD arousal and depression symptoms associated with increased right-sided parietal EEG asymmetryLinda J Metzger
Veterans Affairs Medical Center Research Service, Manchester, NH 03104, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:324-9. 2004..The results indicate that PTSD arousal symptoms are associated with increased right-sided parietal activation...
Performing under pressure: the effects of physiological arousal, cognitive anxiety, and gaze control in biathlonJoan N Vickers
Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Canada
J Mot Behav 39:381-94. 2007..At the highest PO level, directing visual attention externally to critical task information appeared to insulate the athletes from choking under HP...
Substantial similarity in amygdala neuronal activity during conditioned appetitive and aversive emotional arousalSteven J Shabel
Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, University of California at San Francisco, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:15031-6. 2009..that the activity of a large number of cells (> 43%) was correlated with blood pressure, a measure of emotional arousal. Together, our results suggest that a substantial proportion of neuronal circuits within the amygdala can ..
The rewarding aspects of music listening are related to degree of emotional arousalValorie N Salimpoor
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PLoS ONE 4:e7487. 2009..It has been suggested that the pleasurable aspects of music listening are related to a change in emotional arousal, although this link has not been directly investigated...
Attentional interference effects of emotional pictures: threat, negativity, or arousal?Ulrich Schimmack
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Emotion 5:55-66. 2005..According to arousal theory, arousal level predicts interference effects...
Attention deficit disorders and sleep/arousal disturbanceT E Brown
Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06519, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 931:271-86. 2001..Impairments in sleep/arousal may also be related more directly to the underlying pathophysiology of ADD...
"Change the mind and you change the brain": effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on the neural correlates of spider phobiaVincent Paquette
Centre de Recherche, , 4565 Queen Mary Road, , , Canada, H3W 1W5
Neuroimage 18:401-9. 2003..They further indicate that the changes made at the mind level, within a psychotherapeutic context, are able to functionally "rewire" the brain...
Interactions between BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and early life stress predict brain and arousal pathways to syndromal depression and anxietyJ M Gatt
The Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Millennium Institute and University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Mol Psychiatry 14:681-95. 2009..Multiple regression analysis revealed main effects of ELS for body arousal (resting heart rate, P=0.005) and symptoms (depression and anxiety, P<0...
How brains beware: neural mechanisms of emotional attentionPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Clinic of Neurology, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Trends Cogn Sci 9:585-94. 2005..This work should help to elucidate the neural processes and temporal dynamics governing the integration of cognitive and affective influences in attention and behaviour...
The role of angry rumination and distraction in blood pressure recovery from emotional arousalWilliam Gerin
Columbia University NY Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Psychosom Med 68:64-72. 2006..Cardiovascular recovery of prestress baseline blood pressure has been implicated as a possible additional determinant of sustained blood pressure elevation. We hypothesize that angry ruminations may slow the recovery process...
Event-related skin conductance responses to musical emotions in humansStephanie Khalfa
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, CP 6128 Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
Neurosci Lett 328:145-9. 2002..This response generally depends upon stimulus arousal, one of the two motivational determinants of emotion...
Regulation of arousal and attention in preschool children exposed to cocaine prenatallyL C Mayes
Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 846:126-43. 1998..suggest a plausible link between prenatal cocaine exposure (CE) and specific effects on the mechanisms subserving arousal and attention regulation in infants and preschool-aged children...
Dissociating emotion-induced blindness and hypervisionBruno R Bocanegra
Department of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Emotion 9:865-73. 2009....
Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and arousalRonald Szymusiak
Research Service 151A3, Veterans Administration, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 16111 Plummer Street, North Hills, CA 91434, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1129:275-86. 2008Normal waking is associated with neuronal activity in several chemically defined ascending arousal systems...
Taste reactivity analysis of 6-hydroxydopamine-induced aphagia: implications for arousal and anhedonia hypotheses of dopamine functionK C Berridge
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109
Behav Neurosci 103:36-45. 1989..6-OHDA) lesions of the mesostriatal dopamine system are often explained using either sensorimotor arousal or anhedonia hypotheses...
Amygdala activation during reading of emotional adjectives--an advantage for pleasant contentCornelia Herbert
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 4:35-49. 2009..Results indicate preferential processing of pleasant information in healthy young adults and can be accounted for within the framework of appraisal theory...
Brain activity underlying emotional valence and arousal: a response-related fMRI studySilke Anders
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 23:200-9. 2004..is organized along two psychophysiologic dimensions: (1) valence, varying from negative to positive, and (2) arousal, varying from low to high...
Neuropeptide S: a novel modulator of stress and arousalNaoe Okamura
Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Stress 10:221-6. 2007Neuropeptide S (NPS) is a recently identified bioactive peptide that modulates stress and arousal. NPS is expressed in a few discrete nuclei in the brainstem, such as the pericoerulear (locus coeruleus (LC)) area and the parabrachial ..
Physiological arousal and sensation-seeking in female fruit machine gamblersK R Coventry
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK
Addiction 94:425-30. 1999To examine changes in physiological arousal, as indexed by heart rate, during fruit machine gambling while controlling for the confounding effect of movement and as a function of winning and losing, and to examine relationships between ..
Functional connectivity of the macaque brain across stimulus and arousal statesSebastian Moeller
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosci 29:5897-909. 2009..significance of this correlated activity, we asked whether and how its structure depends on stimulus and arousal state...
Emotional control of nociceptive reactions (ECON): do affective valence and arousal play a role?Jamie L Rhudy
Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
Pain 136:250-61. 2008..The present study sought to determine whether emotional valence and arousal contribute to nociception modulation...
Affective experience in adulthood and old age: The role of affective arousal and perceived affect regulationEva Marie Kessler
Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Psychol Aging 24:349-62. 2009..Measurement of affect encompassed high- and low-arousal positive and negative affect. The sample consisted of 277 participants who were between 20 and 80 years old...
Prospective comparison of subjective arousal during the pre-sleep period in primary sleep-onset insomnia and normal sleepersJennifer A Robertson
University of Glasgow Sleep Research Laboratory, Glasgow, UK
J Sleep Res 16:230-8. 2007..Indeed, to date no study has attempted to capture directly the conditioned arousal effect assumed to characterize the disorder...
Sexual dimorphism in locus coeruleus dendritic morphology: a structural basis for sex differences in emotional arousalDebra A Bangasser
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division Stress Neurobiology, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Physiol Behav 103:342-51. 2011..This may be a structural basis for heightened arousal in females, an effect which may, in part, account for the sex bias in incidence of stress-related psychiatric ..
Neuropeptide S as a novel arousal promoting peptide transmitterRainer K Reinscheid
Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 4625, USA
FEBS J 272:5689-93. 2005Behavioral arousal requires integration of multiple neurotransmitter and neuromodulatory systems...
[New concepts in relation to generating and maintaining arousal]Pablo Torterolo
Departamento de Fisiologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
Rev Neurol 50:747-58. 2010..the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) played a vital role in understanding the physiology of sleep and arousal, as well as in explaining the pathophysiological bases of diseases characterised by insomnia, hypersomnia or coma...
The effect of experimenter gender on autonomic and subjective responses to pain stimuliPer M Aslaksen
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Pain 129:260-8. 2007..Subjective measurements consisted of pain intensity, pain unpleasantness, stress, arousal and mood. Autonomic responses were heart rate variability and skin conductance levels...
Brain metabolic changes during cigarette cravingArthur L Brody
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, 300 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 2200, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:1162-72. 2002..The objective of this study was to determine changes in regional cerebral glucose metabolism and correlations between craving and regional metabolism in heavy cigarette smokers exposed to cigarette-related cues...
Cardiovascular response to arousal from sleep under controlled conditions of central and peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation in humansDenise M O'Driscoll
Clinical and Academic Unit of Sleep and Breathing, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
J Appl Physiol 96:865-70. 2004The cardiovascular response to an arousal occurring at the termination of an obstructive apnea is almost double that to a spontaneous arousal...
Drosophila D1 dopamine receptor mediates caffeine-induced arousalRozi Andretic
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:20392-7. 2008..The wake-promoting effects of methamphetamine require a functional dopamine transporter as well as the dDA1, and they engage brain areas in addition to the mushroom bodies...
Effects of realism on extended violent and nonviolent video game play on aggressive thoughts, feelings, and physiological arousalChristopher P Barlett
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
Aggress Behav 35:213-24. 2009..that playing violent video game exposure can increase aggressive thoughts, aggressive feelings, and physiological arousal. This study compared the effects that playing a realistic violent, unrealistic violent, or nonviolent video game ..
Autonomic arousal in an appetitive context in primates: a behavioural and neural analysisKatrin Braesicke
Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DY, UK
Eur J Neurosci 21:1733-40. 2005Central to many emotional responses is the accompanying peripheral somatic and autonomic arousal, feedback from which has been hypothesized to enhance emotional memory and to contribute to appraisal processes and decision making, and ..
Evidence of dissociated arousal states during NREM parasomnia from an intracerebral neurophysiological studyMichele Terzaghi
Sleep Medicine and Epilepsy Unit, IRCCS C Mondino Institute of Neurology Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Sleep 32:409-12. 2009b>Arousal parasomnias are expressions of sleep/ wake state dissociations in which wakefulness and NREM sleep seem to coexist...
Cognitions, emotions, and sexual response: analysis of the relationship among automatic thoughts, emotional responses, and sexual arousalPedro J Nobre
Departamento de Educacao e Psicologia, Universidade de Tras os Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Arch Sex Behav 37:652-61. 2008..between automatic thoughts and emotions presented during sexual activity and their correlation with sexual arousal was investigated...
Capturing SCL and HR changes to win and loss events during gambling on electronic machinesBenjamin L Wilkes
School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Int J Psychophysiol 78:265-72. 2010The role of physiological arousal is central to theories about the onset and maintenance of gambling behaviours including problem gambling...
Neural substrates of psychostimulant-induced arousalCraig W Berridge
Psychology Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 31:2332-40. 2006..The diverse behavioral effects of these drugs are superimposed on potent arousal-enhancing actions...
Cerebrovascular response to arousal from NREM and REM sleepMuhammad Fuad Bangash
Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison, 53706 1532, USA
Sleep 31:321-7. 2008To determine the effect of arousal from sleep on cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) in relation to associated ventilatory and systemic hemodynamic changes.
Effects of a structured problem-solving procedure on pre-sleep cognitive arousal in college students with insomniaColleen E Carney
Duke Clinic Sleep Laboratory, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Behav Sleep Med 4:13-28. 2006Pre-sleep cognitive arousal, more specifically worry, is often reported as a distressing symptom that interferes with sleep...
Effects of emotional valence and arousal upon memory trade-offs with agingJill D Waring
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Psychol Aging 24:412-22. 2009..The authors examined how aging impacts the trade-off by manipulating valence (positive, negative) and arousal (low, high) of a central emotional item within a neutral background scene and testing memory for item and ..
Arousal effect on emotional face comprehension: frequency band changes in different time intervalsMichela Balconi
Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Largo Gemelli, 1, 20123, Milan, Italy
Physiol Behav 97:455-62. 2009....
Cardiac concomitants of feedback processingEveline A Crone
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB, The Netherlands
Biol Psychol 64:143-56. 2003..The results were interpreted in support of the hypothesis assuming that heart rate slowing is elicited when performance-based expectations are violated...
Tiagabine is associated with sustained attention during sleep restriction: evidence for the value of slow-wave sleep enhancement?James K Walsh
Sleep Medicine and Research Center, St John s Mercy Medical Center St Luke s Hospital, St Louis, MO, USA
Sleep 29:433-43. 2006..To evaluate the impact of enhanced slow-wave sleep (SWS) on behavioral, psychological, and physiologic changes resulting from sleep restriction..
The emotional consequences of social pragmatism: the psychophysiological correlates of self-monitoringStefan G Hofmann
Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 2002, USA
Biol Psychol 73:169-74. 2006..Social anxiety and depression did not account for these results. The findings suggest that high self-monitors show lower autonomic and cortical arousal than low self-monitors when anticipating social stress.
Habitual napping moderates motor performance improvements following a short daytime napCatherine E Milner
Brock University, Sleep Research Laboratory, St Catharines, Ont, Canada
Biol Psychol 73:141-56. 2006..Results indicate that motor learning was consolidated in a brief nap and was associated with stage 2 spindles, but only for those who habitually take naps...
The 'when' and 'where' of perceiving signals of threat versus non-threatLeanne M Williams
Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Millenium Institute and Western Clinical School, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Australia
Neuroimage 31:458-67. 2006..While fear may be processed via parallel pathways (one initiated prior to structural encoding), neural systems supporting positively valenced input may be more localized and rely on structural encoding...
Experience-dependent plasticity for attention to threat: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in humansChristopher S Monk
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Biol Psychiatry 56:607-10. 2004..Examination of plasticity of attention bias with individuals at risk for anxiety disorders may reveal how threatening stimuli come to be categorized differently in this population over time...
Effects of pre-stimulus processing on subsequent events in a warned Go/NoGo paradigm: response preparation, execution and inhibitionJanette L Smith
Department of Psychology and Brain and Behaviour Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Australia
Int J Psychophysiol 61:121-33. 2006..Together, these data suggest that the inhibitory process may be reflected in the NoGo P3 effect, rather than the NoGo N2 effect...
Electrophysiological correlates of threat processing in spider phobicsIris Tatjana Kolassa
Biological and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Psychophysiology 42:520-30. 2005....
Electrophysiological correlates of categorization: P300 amplitude as index of target similarityA Azizian
The Scripps Research Institute, Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory, Department of Neuropharmacology, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, TPC 10, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Biol Psychol 71:278-88. 2006..The data further suggest that the P300 amplitude may be used as a good index of perceptual similarity between target and non-target stimuli...
Performance on a simple reaction time task while sleep deprivedJohannes van den Berg
Department of Work and the Physical Environment, National Institute of Working Life, Umea, Sweden
Percept Mot Skills 102:589-99. 2006..EEG and heart-rate variability measures did not correlate significantly with reaction time. Misses correlated significantly with subjective ratings and heart rate but only in the rested condition...
Association between lower P300 amplitude and smaller anterior cingulate cortex volume in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder: a study of victims of Tokyo subway sarin attackTsuyoshi Araki
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Tokyo 113 8655, Japan
Neuroimage 25:43-50. 2005..These results provide the first evidence that electrophysiological deficits of controlled attention observed in patients with PTSD may be linked to underlying brain morphological abnormalities...
Segregated neural representation of distinct emotion dimensions in the prefrontal cortex-an fMRI studySimone Grimm
Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Neuroimage 30:325-40. 2006..In conclusion, our results indicate segregated neural representation of the different emotion dimensions in different prefrontal cortical regions...
Neural biases to covert and overt signals of fear: dissociation by trait anxiety and depressionLeanne M Williams
University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Cogn Neurosci 19:1595-608. 2007....
A P300 event-related potential brain-computer interface (BCI): the effects of matrix size and inter stimulus interval on performanceEric W Sellers
Laboratory of Nervous System Disorders, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, E1001 Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12201, USA
Biol Psychol 73:242-52. 2006..This work demonstrates that matrix size and ISI are important variables to consider when optimizing a BCI system for individual users and that a P300-BCI can be used for effective communication...
Effects of dopaminergic modulation on electrophysiological brain response to affective stimuliIngmar H A Franken
Erasmus Affective Neuroscience Lab, Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 195:537-46. 2008..There is some indirect evidence for this from studies showing an association between the treatment with dopaminergic agents and self-reported affect...
Consciousness and arousal effects on emotional face processing as revealed by brain oscillations. A gamma band analysisMichela Balconi
Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Largo Gemelli, 1 20123 Milan, Italy
Int J Psychophysiol 67:41-6. 2008..The results showed that both consciousness and significance of the stimulus in terms of arousal can modulate the power synchronization (ERD decrease) during 150-350 time range: an early oscillatory event ..
Emotionally arousing stimuli compete for attention with left hemispaceKaisa M Hartikainen
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Neuroreport 18:1929-33. 2007..The results provide electrophysiological and behavioral evidence that unpleasant, emotionally arousing stimuli interfere with the right hemisphere-dependent attention capacity...
Visual noise effects on emotion perception: brain potentials and stimulus identificationHarald T Schupp
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, University of Greifswald, Germany
Neuroreport 19:167-71. 2008..These data support the notion that the EPN may serve as a measure of affective stimulus evaluation at an early transitory processing period...
Electroencephalographic (EEG) measurements of mindfulness-based Triarchic body-pathway relaxation technique: a pilot studyAgnes S Chan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 33:39-47. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine the EEG pattern generated during the practice of this mindfulness exercise, and compare it to music listening which has been shown to induce positive emotions...
The effect of methylphenidate on auditory information processing in healthy volunteers: a combined EEG/MEG studyMilena Korostenskaja
BioMag Laboratory, HUSLAB, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 197:475-86. 2008....
Is running away right? The behavioral activation-behavioral inhibition model of anterior asymmetryJan Wacker
Faculty of Psychology, Philipps Universitat Marburg, Germany
Emotion 8:232-49. 2008..In addition, the present study also supports an association of right parietal activation with physiological arousal and the conceptualization of parietal EEG asymmetry as a mediator of emotion-related physiological arousal.
Prefrontal mechanisms for executive control over emotional distraction are altered in major depressionLihong 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...
Slow wave sleep enhancement with gaboxadol reduces daytime sleepiness during sleep restrictionJames K Walsh
Sleep Medicine and Research Center, St John s Mercy Medical Center St Luke s Hospital, St Louis, MO, USA
Sleep 31:659-72. 2008..To evaluate the impact of enhanced slow wave sleep (SWS) on behavioral, psychological, and physiological changes resulting from sleep restriction...
Electrophysiological correlates of encoding and retrieving emotional eventsStefanie Koenig
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Emotion 8:162-73. 2008..The high arousal of negative events may interfere with controlled encoding mechanisms and attenuate item recognition and the ..
Facial attractiveness modulates early and late event-related brain potentialsKatja Werheid
Department of Psychology, Humboldt University at Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Biol Psychol 76:100-8. 2007....
Neurophysiological mechanisms in the emotional modulation of attention: the interplay between threat sensitivity and attentional controlTracy A Dennis
Hunter College, The City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
Biol Psychol 76:1-10. 2007..Results may have implications for understanding automatic and voluntary attentional biases related to anxiety...
Attending to affect: appraisal strategies modulate the electrocortical response to arousing picturesGreg Hajcak
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Emotion 6:517-22. 2006..The results are further discussed in terms of the utility of using the LPP to study emotion regulation...
The effect of content and physical properties of affective pictures on emotional responsesJuan Pedro Sánchez-Navarro
Departamento de Anatomía Humana y Psicobiología, Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Span J Psychol 9:145-53. 2006..the startle blink reflex, skin conductance response, heart rate, free viewing time, and picture valence and arousal ratings. In line with previous research (e.g...
The ERP old-new effect: A useful indicator in studying the effects of sleep on memory retrieval processesMelodee Mograss
Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin, , , QC Canada
Sleep 29:1491-500. 2006..Memory representation was not different across sessions. These findings suggest that sleep and wake facilitate 2 components of memory unequally, ie, episodic recognition and memory representation functioning...
Low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) identifies brain regions linked to psychometric performance under modafinil in narcolepsyMichael Saletu
Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Psychiatry Res 154:69-84. 2007..In conclusion, modafinil did not influence thymopsychic variables in narcolepsy, but it significantly improved cognitive performance, which may be related to medial prefrontal activity processes identified by LORETA...
12-month-old infants allocate increased neural resources to stimuli associated with negative adult emotionLeslie J Carver
Department of Psychology and Program in Human Development, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093 0109, USA
Dev Psychol 43:54-69. 2007..The results are discussed with respect to their significance for understanding why infants reference and regulate their behavior in response to adult emotion. Suggestions for further research are provided...
Affective visual event-related potentials: arousal, repetition, and time-on-taskJonas K Olofsson
Department of Psychology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Biol Psychol 75:101-8. 2007..b>Arousal effects did not interact with stimulus repetition at any latency range...
An ERP study of emotional face processing in the adult and infant brainJukka M Leppanen
Human Information Processing Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Tampere, Tampere, FIN 33014 Finland
Child Dev 78:232-45. 2007....
Brain potentials in perception: picture complexity and emotional arousalMargaret M Bradley
Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Psychophysiology 44:364-73. 2007....
Does age worsen EEG slowing and attention deficits in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome?Annie Mathieu
Centre d Etude du Sommeil et des Rythmes Biologiques, Hopital du Sacre Coeur de Montreal, 5400 Boul Gouin Ouest, Montreal, Que, Canada
Clin Neurophysiol 118:1538-44. 2007....
Psychophysiological, behavioral, and cognitive indices of the emotional response: a factor-analytic studyJuan Pedro Sánchez-Navarro
Departamento de Anatomía Humana y Psicobiología, Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Span J Psychol 11:16-25. 2008..startle blink response, skin conductance response, heart rate, free viewing time, and picture valence and arousal ratings of 45 subjects while viewing 54 pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS; 18 ..
Context effects in word recognition: evidence for early interactive processingSara C Sereno
Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 14:328-33. 2003..The results establish temporal parameters for the early operation of context in lexical access. These constraints are more consistent with an interactive than a modular account...
ERP indices of emotionality and semantic cohesiveness during recognition judgmentsHeather E McNeely
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Psychophysiology 41:117-29. 2004....
Working memory and inhibitory control in early childhood: Contributions from physiology, temperament, and languageChristy D Wolfe
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Dev Psychobiol 44:68-83. 2004..Results of a discriminant function analysis indicated that physiology, temperament, and language were able to correctly predict 90% of WMIC performance...
Discrimination of emotional facial expressions in a visual oddball task: an ERP studyS Campanella
Unité de Neurosciences Cognitives NESC, Faculte de Psychologie, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Place du Cardinal Mercier 10, B 1348, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
Biol Psychol 59:171-86. 2002..The N2/P3a was thus implicated in the detection of physical facial changes, with a higher sensitivity to changes related to a new different emotional content, perhaps leading to faster adaptive reactions...
Research Grants
- Regulation of Hypothalamic Sleep-wake Neuronal SystemNOOR ALAM; Fiscal Year: 2007Evidence suggests that hypocretins (Hcrt), also called orexins, promote behavioral arousal and suppress rapid eye movement (REM) sleep...
- Speech of Young Males with Fragile X SyndromeDavid Zajac; Fiscal Year: 2009..of intelligibility differ among boys with FXS, DS, and TD; and c) identify potential mechanisms (anxiety/arousal, motor speech, nonverbal cognition, attention) that may account for anticipated group differences in speech ..
- Speech of Young Males with Fragile X SyndromeDavid Zajac; Fiscal Year: 2009..of intelligibility differ among boys with FXS, DS, and TD; and c) identify potential mechanisms (anxiety/arousal, motor speech, nonverbal cognition, attention) that may account for anticipated group differences in speech ..
- Consequences of Cardiac Arrest: Brain InjuryNITISH VYOMESH THAKOR; Fiscal Year: 2010..that track brain injury and recovery after CA, b) recovery of thalamocortical networks during restitution of arousal after CA and c) the patterns of electrical rhythms and time course when therapy may impact recovery...
- NEUROENDOCRINE CONTROL OF REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIORLAUREN RITERS; Fiscal Year: 2003..by a new investigator, is to elucidate basic relationships between hormones and brain areas regulating sexual arousal and those important for the expression of behaviors reflecting sexual arousal...
- NEUROPHARMACOLOGY OF ETHANOL REINFORCEMENTGeorge F Koob; Fiscal Year: 2010..disorder characterized by a compulsion to seek and take alcohol and has been linked to dysregulation of the brain arousal and emotional systems critically involved in both the positive and negative reinforcement important for the ..
- Circadian and Aminergic Regulation of Orexin NeuronsTHOMAS SCAMMELL; Fiscal Year: 2005..We propose a model in which orexin neurons promote wakefulness and inhibit REM sleep by activating aminergic arousal regions, and, in turn, the orexin neurons are activated by these aminergic regions...
- Spontaneous Arousals in "CHIME" Infants at Risk for SIDSROBERT DARNALL; Fiscal Year: 2006b>Arousal from sleep is an important component of the protective responses to physiological challenges during sleep, helping to protect the infant from potentially dangerous situations, even sudden death...
- FEMALE SEXUAL AROUSAL: CLITORAL AND VAGINAL PHYSIOLOGYAbdulmaged Traish; Fiscal Year: 2003DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): Female sexuality is an desire, arousal, orgasm or pain, are estimated to afflict 30-50 percent of women in the United States...
- ORGANIZATION OF CENTRAL SYMPATHETIC PATHWAYSPATRICE GUYENET; Fiscal Year: 2009..of breathing, a rise in blood pressure and sympathetic nerve activity, hormonal changes and behavioral arousal. These physiological responses are important for homeostasis and of considerable clinical interest...
- ORGANIZATION OF CENTRAL SYMPATHETIC PATHWAYSPatrice G Guyenet; Fiscal Year: 2010..of breathing, a rise in blood pressure and sympathetic nerve activity, hormonal changes and behavioral arousal. These physiological responses are important for homeostasis and of considerable clinical interest...
- Nitric Oxide Inhibits RhoA/Rho-kinase in Penile ErectionR Clinton Webb; Fiscal Year: 2006..Constriction and dilation of the cavernosal vasculature determines penile erection. In the absence of arousal stimuli, Ca2+-sensitizing RhoA/Rho-kinase signaling maintains vasoconstriction, keeping the penis non-erect...
- CONTROL BELIEFS, MEMORY, AND AGINGMARGIE LACHMAN; Fiscal Year: 2009..be accomplished by using short-term longitudinal designs to examine strategy use, anxiety, stress reactivity and arousal as mediators...
- Depression & CHD: Cellular-Molecular MechanismsEDWARD SUAREZ; Fiscal Year: 2009..and at the cellular/molecular level via attenuation of stress-induced cardiovascular and adrenergic responses and arousal of negative affect, both shown to predict inflammatory cellular markers...
- Depression & CHD: Cellular-Molecular MechanismsEDWARD CARLOS SUAREZ; Fiscal Year: 2010..and at the cellular/molecular level via attenuation of stress-induced cardiovascular and adrenergic responses and arousal of negative affect, both shown to predict inflammatory cellular markers...
- The Roles of Neuropeptide S System in the Regulation of Sleep and WakefulnessYanling Xu; Fiscal Year: 2007..Neuropeptide S (NPS) and it receptor are a newly discovered neuropeptide system that promotes arousal and wakefulness...
- Arousal, orexins and anesthesiaMAX KELZ; Fiscal Year: 2007..will map neural activation through c-Fos protein immunohistochemistry?the same methodology used initially to find arousal state- dependent nuclei...
- Ginkgo Biloba: Antidepressant-Induced Sexual DysfunctionCindy Meston; Fiscal Year: 2003..In women, the side effects most commonly reported include decreased sexual arousal with decreased lubrication, delayed or inhibited orgasm, and decreased sexual desire...
- A NURSING STUDY OF GUT FUNCTION IN MENSTRUATING WOMENMargaret McLean Heitkemper; Fiscal Year: 2010..We will also assess the physiologic links between vagal tone and other indicators of central mechanisms (arousal [startle reflex], and descending noxious inhibitory control)...
- Chronic Alcohol and Brain Stress Circuit ResponseRajita Sinha; Fiscal Year: 2007..cue situations as compared to neutral-relaxing imagery reliably increases drug craving and physiological arousal. Such increases in drug craving are accompanied by activation of HPA measures such as adrenocorticotrophic ..
- Testing a Neurobiological Model of Primary InsomniaDaniel Buysse; Fiscal Year: 2009..1) Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we have identified a distinctive diurnal pattern of mood and arousal symptoms in PI subjects that differentiates them from good sleeper controls (GSC); 2) We demonstrated that ..
- Testing a Neurobiological Model of Primary InsomniaDaniel Buysse; Fiscal Year: 2007..1) Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we have identified a distinctive diurnal pattern of mood and arousal symptoms in PI subjects that differentiates them from good sleeper controls (GSC); 2) We demonstrated that ..
- Neuroendocrine Mechanisms in Yoga Treatment of InsomniaSAT BIR KHALSA; Fiscal Year: 2007There is good evidence that physiological arousal, associated with sustained activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis and the sympathetic nervous system, is an underlying cause of chronic insomnia...
- A NURSING STUDY OF GUT FUNCTION IN MENSTRUATING WOMENMargaret Heitkemper; Fiscal Year: 1993..Preliminary analysis of our current sample has shown that autonomic nervous system (ANS) arousal, menstrual cycle phase, and psychological distress are associated with such symptoms...
- Effects of DA D1 and D2 agonists on reward sensitivityValeri Farmer Dougan; Fiscal Year: 2004..relating dopamine to behavior have suggested a better description of dopamine may be as the neural substrate of arousal, novelty or surprise...
- DRUG EFFECTS ON LEARNING AND MEMORYJames L McGaugh; Fiscal Year: 2010..of this research program is to understand the neurobiological systems that mediate the influence of emotional arousal on long-term memory...
