Emotions are often assumed to manifest in subcortical limbic and brainstem structures.
While these areas are clearly important for representing affect (eg, valence and arousal), we …

A central, unresolved problem in affective neuroscience is understanding how emotions are
represented in nervous system activity. After prior localization approaches largely failed …

How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

In this article, we offer a brief history summarizing the last century of neuroscientific study of
emotion, highlighting dominant themes that run through various schools of thought. We then …

Neuroimaging studies of mentalizing (ie, theory of mind) consistently implicate the default
mode network (DMN). Nevertheless, the social cognitive functions of individual DMN regions …

Morality and emotions are linked, but what is the nature of their correspondence? Many
“whole number” accounts posit specific correspondences between moral content and …

Mood disorders cause significant morbidity and mortality, and existing therapies fail 20%–
30% of patients. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an emerging treatment for refractory mood …

Emotional events are often remembered better than neutral events, a benefit that many
studies have hypothesized to depend on the amygdala's interactions with memory systems …

Emotion research typically searches for consistency and specificity in physiological activity
across instances of an emotion category, such as anger or fear, yet studies to date have …

The amygdala is a key structure mediating emotional processing. Few studies have used
direct electrical stimulation of the amygdala in humans to examine stimulation-elicited …