The classic fight-or-flight response to perceived threat is a reflexive nervous phenomenon
thai has obvious survival advantages in evolutionary terms. However, the systems that …

Interest in sex-related differences in psychological functioning has again come to the
foreground with new findings about their possible functional basis in the brain. Sex …

Substantial sex differences in emotional responses and perception have been reported in
previous psychological and psychophysiological studies. For example, women have been …

The ontogeny of human empathy is better understood with reference to the evolutionary
history of the social brain. Empathy has deep evolutionary, biochemical, and neurological …

Childhood trauma is a potent risk factor for developing depression in adulthood, particularly
in response to additional stress. We here summarize results from a series of clinical studies …

BACKGROUND: Emotion regulation strategies are thought to differ in when and how they
influence the emotion-generative process. However, no study to date has directly probed the …

Despite strong popular conceptions of gender differences in emotionality and striking
gender differences in the prevalence of disorders thought to involve emotion dysregulation …

Background Existing literature suggests that age affects recognition of affective facial
expressions. Eye-tracking studies highlighted that age-related differences in recognition of …

Gender differences in emotional functioning are widely documented, but are often
inconsistent across personality, social, cultural, and situational variables, as well as types of …

Background Depression is a heterogeneous mental illness. Neurostimulation treatments, by
targeting specific nodes within the brain's emotion-regulation network, may be useful both as …