A growing body of research has examined the impact of childhood adversity on neural
structure and function. Advances in our understanding of the neurodevelopmental …

This review aims to synthesise a large pre-clinical and clinical literature related to a
hypothesised role of the locus coeruleus norepinephrine system in responses to acute and …

Objective The strong associations between child maltreatment and psychopathology have
generated interest in identifying neurodevelopmental processes that are disrupted following …

Each of us has felt afraid, and we can all recognize fear in many animal species. Yet there is
no consensus in the scientific study of fear. Some argue that 'fear'is a psychological …

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major
advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what …

Anxiety disorders are a significant problem in the community, and recent neuroimaging
research has focused on determining the brain circuits that underlie them. Research on the …

The dynamic interactions between the amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
are usefully conceptualized as a circuit that both allows us to react automatically to …

Background: Most of our social interactions involve perception of emotional information from
the faces of other people. Furthermore, such emotional processes are thought to be aberrant …

The present meta-analysis aimed to clarify whether deficits in emotion recognition in
psychopathy are restricted to certain emotions and modalities or whether they are more …

The amygdala has received intense recent attention from neuroscientists investigating its
function at the molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive, and clinical level. It clearly contributes …