The neurobiology of human aggressive behavior: neuroimaging, genetic, and neurochemical aspects

FA Cupaioli, FA Zucca, C Caporale, KP Lesch… - Progress in neuro …, 2021 - Elsevier
In modern societies, there is a strive to improve the quality of life related to risk of crimes
which inevitably requires a better understanding of brain determinants and mediators of …

Ultra-high field imaging of the amygdala–a narrative review

CF Kirstein, O Güntürkün, S Ocklenburg - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
The amygdala is an evolutionarily conserved core structure in emotion processing and one
of the key regions of interest in affective neuroscience. Results of neuroimaging studies …

Age‐related change in task‐evoked amygdala—prefrontal circuitry: A multiverse approach with an accelerated longitudinal cohort aged 4–22 years

PA Bloom, M VanTieghem… - Human Brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The amygdala and its connections with medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) play central roles in
the development of emotional processes. While several studies have suggested that this …

Deficient prefrontal-amygdalar connectivity underlies inefficient face processing in adolescent major depressive disorder

D Willinger, II Karipidis, I Häberling, G Berger… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
Adolescence represents a critical developmental period where the prevalence of major
depressive disorder (MDD) increases. Aberrant emotion processing is a core feature of …

[HTML][HTML] Age-related reduction in trait anxiety: Behavioral and neural evidence of automaticity in negative facial emotion processing

S Chaudhary, S Zhang, S Zhornitsky, Y Chen… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Trait anxiety diminishes with age, which may result from age-related decline in registering
salient emotional stimuli and/or enhancement in emotion regulation. We tested the …

Positivity effect in aging: Evidence for the primacy of positive responses to emotional ambiguity

NM Petro, R Basyouni, M Neta - Neurobiology of aging, 2021 - Elsevier
Older compared to younger adults show greater amygdala activity to positive emotions, and
are more likely to interpret emotionally ambiguous stimuli (eg, surprised faces) as positive …

[HTML][HTML] Test-retest reliability of emotion regulation networks using fMRI at ultra-high magnetic field

S Berboth, C Windischberger, N Kohn, C Morawetz - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Given the importance of emotion regulation in affective disorders, emotion regulation is at
the focus of attempts to identify brain biomarkers of disease risk, treatment response, and …

[HTML][HTML] Improved brain stimulation targeting by optimising image acquisition parameters

M Vasileiadi, M Woletz, D Linhardt, S Grosshagauer… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Functional connectivity analysis from rs-fMRI data has been used for determining cortical
targets in therapeutic applications of non-invasive brain stimulation using transcranial …

Basolateral and central amygdala orchestrate how we learn whom to trust

R Sladky, F Riva, LA Rosenberger, J van Honk… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Cooperation and mutual trust are essential in our society, yet not everybody is trustworthy. In
this fMRI study, 62 healthy volunteers performed a repeated trust game, placing trust in a …

Dysconnectivity between the anterior insula and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during an emotion go/nogo paradigm is associated with aggressive behaviors in …

A Fortier, A Dumais, M Athanassiou, A Tikàsz… - Psychiatry Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aimed to investigate the association between past-reported violent/aggressive
behaviors and brain functional connectivity in male patients suffering from schizophrenia …