Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a critical national concern, affecting 5.8 million people and
costing more than 250 billion annually. However, there is no available cure. Thus, effective …

Elevated levels of systemic inflammation are associated with altered reward-related brain
function in ventral striatal areas of the brain like the nucleus accumbens (NAcc). In …

Sensitivity to criticism, which can be defined as a negative evaluation that a person receives
from someone else, is considered a risk factor for the development of psychiatric disorders in …

The occurrence of suicidal behaviors increases during adolescence. Hypersensitivity to
negative social signals and deficits in cognitive control are putative mechanisms of suicidal …

Background Adolescent depression shows high clinical heterogeneity. Brain functional
networks serve as a powerful tool for investigating neural mechanisms underlying …

Punishment of moral norm violators is instrumental for human cooperation. Yet, social and
affective neuroscience research has primarily focused on second-and third-party norm …

Perception is an intricate interplay between feedforward visual input and internally
generated feedback signals that comprise concurrent contextual and time-distant mnemonic …

The Islamist group ISIS has been particularly successful at recruiting Westerners as
terrorists. A hypothesized explanation is their simultaneous use of two types of propaganda …

The cerebellum has been involved in social abilities and autism. Given that the cerebellum
is connected to the cortex via the cerebello‐thalamo‐cortical loop, the connectivity between …

Comparative research suggests that the hypothalamus is critical in switching between
survival behaviors, yet it is unclear if this is the case in humans. Here, we investigate the role …