One of the most important characteristics that distinguish between humans and other
species is our capacity to regulate our emotions. Emotion regulation clearly reaches its …

Central amygdala (CeA) projections to hypothalamic and brain stem nuclei regulate the
behavioral and physiological expression of fear, but it is unknown whether these different …

Emotions can be powerful drivers of behavior that may be adaptive or maladaptive for the
individual. Thus, the ability to alter one's emotions, to regulate them, should be beneficial to …

Oxytocin (OT) is becoming increasingly established as a prosocial neuropeptide in humans
with therapeutic potential in treatment of social, cognitive, and mood disorders. However, the …

Emotion is normally regulated in the human brain by a complex circuit consisting of the
orbital frontal cortex, amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, and several other interconnected …

Background Current neurocircuitry models of anxiety disorders posit a lack of inhibitory tone
in the amygdala during acquisition of Pavlovian fear responses and deficient encoding of …

Researchers generally agree that when upregulating and downregulating emotion, control
regions in the prefrontal cortex turn up or down activity in affect-generating brain areas …

Empathy is the ability to recognize and share in the emotions of others. It can be considered
a multifaceted concept with cognitive and emotional aspects. Little is known regarding the …

Research on the neural systems underlying emotion in animal models over the past two
decades has implicated the amygdala in fear and other emotional processes. This work …

When animals and their offspring are threatened, parents switch from self-defense to
offspring protection. How self-defense is suppressed remains elusive. We postulated that …