An increasing amount of research effort is being directed toward investigating the neural
bases of social cognition from a systems neuroscience perspective. Evidence from multiple …

Brain-wide circuits that coordinate affective and social behaviours intersect in the amygdala.
Consequently, amygdala lesions cause a heterogeneous array of social and non-social …

Social behavior encompasses a number of distinctive and complex constructs that form the
core elements of human imitative culture, mainly represented as either affiliative or …

Many psychiatric illnesses are characterized by deficits in the social domain. For example,
there is a high rate of co-morbidity between autism spectrum disorders and anxiety …

The involvement of the amygdala in aggression is supported by overwhelming evidence.
Frequently, however, the amygdala is studied as a whole, despite its complex internal …

'The Orbitofrontal Cortex'explores a part of the brain that is important in human emotion,
pleasure, decision-making, valuation, and personality. In ten chapters the book describes …

There are myriad questions that emerge when one considers emotions and decision-
making: What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions …

Disrupted social behavior is a core symptom of multiple psychiatric and neurodevelopmental
disorders. Many of these disorders are exacerbated by adverse infant experiences …

Facial expressions reflect decisions about the perceived meaning of social stimuli and the
expected socio-emotional outcome of responding (or not) with a reciprocating expression …

The amygdala consists of a group of heterogeneous nuclei located in the medial portion of
the temporal lobe and is involved in multimodal information processing important for …