In this article, we examine evidence supporting the role of reproductive steroids in the
regulation of mood and behavior in women and the nature of that role. In the first half of the …

Healthy individuals often exhibit prioritized processing of aversive information, as
manifested in enhanced orientation of attention to threatening stimuli compared with neutral …

Emotional biases in attention, interpretation, and memory are viewed as important cognitive
processes underlying symptoms of depression. To date, there is a limited understanding of …

Objectives Depression is characterized by a range of systematic negative biases in thinking
and information processing. These biases are believed to play a causal role in the aetiology …

Cognitive biases are theorized to play a critical role in the onset and maintenance of
depression. Although these cognitive biases have been investigated extensively, their …

Although the link between stressful experiences and depression has been supported in
numerous studies, the specific mechanisms of this relationship are still unclear. Cognitive …

Emotional impacts on attention arises in the form of externally and internally loaded forms.
The former relates to the emotional valence of the sensory stimulus. The latter refers to the …

The evidence for an anxiety-related memory bias is contradictory. We compiled 171 articles
published until October 2016 including a group with clinical or subclinical anxiety and a …

Depression is theorized to be caused in part by biased cognitive processing of emotional
information. Yet, prior research has adopted a reductionist approach that does not …

Background The amygdala can enhance emotional memory encoding as well as
anxiogenesis via corticotropin-releasing factor neurons. However, the amygdala's explicit …