The purview of this paper is twofold: to set the theoretical framework to ground a fruitful
dialogue between oral theory and neuroscience and to apply neuroscientific findings to the …

Purpose: Intranasally applied dopamine (IN-DA), which likely reaches the brain via nasal–
brain pathways and bypasses the blood–brain barrier, has been found to increase …

Activity in the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) pathway is known to have a role in reward
processing and related behaviors. The mesolimbic DA response to reward has been well …

In active avoidance tasks, subjects have to learn to execute particular actions in order to
avoid an aversive stimulus, such as a shock. Such paradigms pose a number of …

Introduction: The development of cocaine use disorder in females is suggested to be more
strongly related to neural mechanisms underlying stress-reactivity, whereas in males it is …

Morphine, a drug of abuse used to treat moderate-to-severe pain, elicits its actions by
binding to the opioid receptors. Cocaine is an example of a recreational drug that inhibits …

Hypnotizability is associated with attentional characteristics whose neurophysiological
bases are still under debate. Aim of the study was the assessment of possible hypnotizability …

The nineteenth century case of Phineas Gage provides a famous example of brain injury
and resultant changes in behavior and personality. 1 Mr Gage was reportedly a mild …

The nucleus accumbens (NAc) is thought to integrate information that is conveyed by (1)
dopaminergic inputs from the midbrain and (2) glutamatergic inputs from limbic and cortical …

In this chapter, we introduce the duty to be an attention ecologist, one who promotes digital
minimalism in others. After arguing for the existence of this duty on Kantian grounds (ie, as …