The inadequacy of a categorial approach to mental health diagnosis is now well-recognised,
with many authors, diagnostic manuals and funding bodies advocating a dimensional, trans …

Background The personality traits of positive and negative urgency refer to the tendencies to
act rashly when experiencing unusually positive or negative emotions, respectively …

The insula is a brain structure implicated in disparate cognitive, affective, and regulatory
functions, including interoceptive awareness, emotional responses, and empathic …

Many decisions must be made under stress, and many decision situations elicit stress
responses themselves. Thus, stress and decision making are intricately connected, not only …

The history of political events is made by people. It doesn't exist without us. From wars to
elections to political protests, the choices we make, our actions, how we behave, dictate …

An update to the classic text that links neuroscience and human behavior in the context of
therapy. This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has …

Insula function is considered critical for many motivated behaviors, with proposed functions
ranging from attention, behavioral control, emotional regulation, goal-directed and aversion …

Behavioral responses to, and the neural processing of, rewards change dramatically during
adolescence and may contribute to observed increases in risk-taking during this …

This chapter begins with a summary of the initial findings on the effects of insula lesions on
smoking behavior as well as more recent human‐lesion studies that replicate and extend …

The insular cortex is one of the brain regions that show consistent abnormalities in both
structural and functional neuroimaging studies of schizophrenia. In healthy individuals, the …