[HTML][HTML] Connectivity from the ventral anterior cingulate to the amygdala is modulated by appetitive motivation in response to facial signals of aggression

L Passamonti, JB Rowe, M Ewbank, A Hampshire… - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
For some people facial expressions of aggression are intimidating, for others they are
perceived as provocative, evoking an aggressive response. Identifying the key …

Patterns of neural connectivity during an attention bias task moderate associations between early childhood temperament and internalizing symptoms in young …

JE Hardee, BE Benson, Y Bar-Haim, K Mogg… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Biased attention to threat is found in both individuals with anxiety symptoms
and children with the childhood temperament of behavioral inhibition (BI). Although …

Robust BOLD responses to faces but not to conditioned threat: challenging the amygdala's reputation in human fear and extinction learning

RM Visser, J Bathelt, HS Scholte… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Most of our knowledge about human emotional memory comes from animal research. Based
on this work, the amygdala is often labeled the brain's “fear center”, but it is unclear to what …

S ex‐related differences in behavioral and amygdalar responses to compound facial threat cues

HY Im, RB Adams Jr, CA Cushing… - Human brain …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
During face perception, we integrate facial expression and eye gaze to take advantage of
their shared signals. For example, fear with averted gaze provides a congruent avoidance …

Sliding-window analysis tracks fluctuations in amygdala functional connectivity associated with physiological arousal and vigilance during fear conditioning

BM Baczkowski, T Johnstone, H Walter, S Erk, IM Veer - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
We evaluated whether sliding-window analysis can reveal functionally relevant brain
network dynamics during a well-established fear conditioning paradigm. To this end, we …

Feeling without seeing? Engagement of ventral, but not dorsal, amygdala during unaware exposure to emotional faces

Y Lerner, N Singer, T Gonen, Y Weintraub… - Journal of cognitive …, 2012 - direct.mit.edu
The ability to selectively perceive items in the environment may be modulated by the
emotional content of those items. The neural mechanism that underlies the privileged …

Amygdala–cortical connectivity: associations with anxiety, development, and threat

AL Gold, T Shechner, MJ Farber, CN Spiro… - Depression and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Amygdala–prefrontal cortex (PFC) functional connectivity may be influenced by
anxiety and development. A prior study on anxiety found age‐specific dysfunction in the …

Do fearful eyes activate empathy-related brain regions in individuals with callous traits?

T Han, GL Alders, SG Greening… - Social Cognitive and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Psychopathy, a developmental disorder characterized by profound social disturbance, is
associated with impaired recognition of distress cues. Since distress processing and moral …

Serotonin transporter genotype modulates subgenual response to fearful faces using an incidental task

EJP O'Nions, RJ Dolan, JP Roiser - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
This study assessed the impact of serotonin transporter genotype (5-HTTLPR) on regional
responses to emotional faces in the amygdala and subgenual cingulate cortex (sgACC) …

Rapid processing of invisible fearful faces in the human amygdala

Y Wang, L Luo, G Chen, G Luan, X Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Rapid detection of a threat or its symbol (eg, fearful face), whether visible or invisible, is
critical for human survival. This function is suggested to be enabled by a subcortical pathway …