Aversive motivation and cognitive control

DM Yee, X Leng, A Shenhav, TS Braver - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aversive motivation plays a prominent role in driving individuals to exert cognitive control.
However, the complexity of behavioral responses attributed to aversive incentives creates …

[HTML][HTML] An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex

R Sladky, D Kargl, W Haubensak, C Lamm - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
The amygdala is a heterogeneous network of subcortical nuclei with central importance in
cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Various experimental designs in human psychology …

Temporally and anatomically specific contributions of the human amygdala to threat and safety learning

Z Wen, CM Raio, EF Pace-Schott… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Neural plasticity in subareas of the rodent amygdala is widely known to be essential for
Pavlovian threat conditioning and safety learning. However, less consistent results have …

Robust BOLD responses to faces but not to conditioned threat: challenging the amygdala's reputation in human fear and extinction learning

RM Visser, J Bathelt, HS Scholte… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Most of our knowledge about human emotional memory comes from animal research. Based
on this work, the amygdala is often labeled the brain's “fear center”, but it is unclear to what …

Associations between aversive learning processes and transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms in a general population sample

T Wise, RJ Dolan - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Symptom expression in psychiatric conditions is often linked to altered threat perception,
however how computational mechanisms that support aversive learning relate to specific …

ACC-BLA functional connectivity disruption in allergic inflammation is associated with anxiety

L Gholami-Mahtaj, M Mooziri, K Dehdar… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Allergic asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory disease. Psychiatric disorders,
including anxiety are associated with poorer treatment response and disease control in …

Corticosteroid treatment attenuates anxiety and mPFC-amygdala circuit dysfunction in allergic asthma

K Dehdar, M Mooziri, AS Moghaddam, M Salimi… - Life Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Aims Allergic asthma is associated with anxiety-related behaviors, leading to poor quality of
life. Previous studies mainly described the neuropathophysiology of asthma-induced …

Altered effective connectivity from the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex to the laterobasal amygdala mediates the relationship between internet gaming disorder and …

M Wang, N Zeng, H Zheng, X Du, MN Potenza… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Background Individual with internet gaming disorder (IGD) often experience a high level of
loneliness, and neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that amygdala function is …

Individual differences in fear acquisition: multivariate analyses of different emotional negativity scales, physiological responding, subjective measures, and neural …

R Sjouwerman, R Scharfenort, TB Lonsdorf - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Negative emotionality is a well-established and stable risk factor for affective disorders.
Individual differences in negative emotionality have been linked to associative learning …

The roles of basolateral amygdala parvalbumin neurons in fear learning

JOY Yau, C Chaichim, JM Power… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is obligatory for fear learning. This learning is linked to BLA
excitatory projection neurons whose activity is regulated by complex networks of inhibitory …