The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic and lacks a range of successful
interventions to reduce this public health burden. Many individuals with opioid use disorder …

Background Social discrimination, a type of psychological stressor, is associated with poorer
physical and mental health outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how discrimination …

Emotion and executive control are often conceptualized as two distinct modes of human
brain functioning. Little, however, is known about how the dynamic organization of large …

Although distinctive neural and physiological states are suggested to underlie the six basic
emotions, basic emotions are often indistinguishable from functional magnetic resonance …

Pathological fear and anxiety disorders can have debilitating impacts on individual patients
and society. The neural circuitry underlying fear learning and extinction has been known to …

As a world intangible cultural heritage, acupuncture is considered an essential modality of
complementary and alternative therapy to Western medicine. Despite acupuncture's long …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the most useful methods to
generate functional connectivity networks of the brain. However, conventional network …

Background The amygdala can enhance emotional memory encoding as well as
anxiogenesis via corticotropin-releasing factor neurons. However, the amygdala's explicit …

Studies of resting state functional MRI (rs-fRMI) are increasingly focused on “dynamics”, or
on those properties of brain activation that manifest and vary on timescales shorter than the …

Past research has recognized culture and gender variation in the experience of emotion, yet
this has not been examined on a level of effective connectivity. To determine culture and …