This Perspective reviews recent findings in placebo hypoalgesia and provides a conceptual
account of how expectations and experience can lead to placebo hypoalgesia. In particular …

We review many of the recent findings concerning mechanisms and pathways for pain and
its modulation, emphasizing sensitization and the modulation of nociceptors and of dorsal …

It is well known that affective and pleasant touch promotes individual well-being and
facilitates affiliative social communication, although the neural circuit that mediates this …

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been associated with diverse functions including
attentional processes, visceromotor activity, decision making, goal directed behavior, and …

We performed an updated quantitative meta-analysis of 162 neuroimaging studies of
emotion using a novel multi-level kernel-based approach, focusing on locating brain regions …

Vocalization is a complex behaviour pattern, consisting of essentially three components:
laryngeal activity, respiratory movements and supralaryngeal (articulatory) activity. The …

Reductionist attempts to dissect complex mechanisms into simpler elements are necessary,
but not sufficient for understanding how biological properties like reward emerge out of …

The organization of lateral septal connections has been re-examined with respect to its
newly defined subdivisions, using anterograde (PHAL) and retrograde (fluorogold) axonal …

An adequate understanding of 'the self'and/or 'primary-process consciousness' should allow
us to explain how affective experiences are created within the brain. Primitive emotional …

The hypothalamus is a relatively small division of the vertebrate forebrain that plays
especially important roles in neural mechanisms assuring homeostasis, defense, and …