This article reviews the behavioral neuroscience of extinction, the phenomenon in which a
behavior that has been acquired through Pavlovian or instrumental (operant) learning …

The amygdala integrates and processes incoming information pertinent to reward and to
emotions such as fear and anxiety that promote survival by warning of potential danger …

Overeating disorders (ODs), usually stemming from dieting history and stress, remain a
pervasive issue in contemporary society, with the pathological mechanisms largely …

This article reviews the anatomical connections of the paraventricular nucleus of the
thalamus (PVT) and discusses some of the connections by which the PVT could influence …

The brain anxiety network is composed of a number of interconnected cortical regions that
detect threats and execute appropriate defensive responses via projections to the shell of …

primate research suggests that affiliation is a highly complex construct. studies of primate
affiliation demonstrate the need to distinguish between various affiliative behaviors, consider …

Recent data have emphasized the neurochemically distinct nature of subterritories in the
accumbens part of the rat ventral striatum termed the core, shell, and rostral pole. In order to …

Repeated exposure to psychostimulants such as cocaine and amphetamine produces
behavioral sensitization, which is characterized by an augmented locomotor response to a …

Numerous human and animal studies indirectly implicate neurons in the anterior cingulate
cortex (ACC) in the encoding of the affective consequences of nociceptor stimulation. No …

The anterograde tracer Phaseolus vulgaris‐leucoagglutinin was used to examine the
topographical organization of the projections to the striatum arising from the various …