Amplification of positivity for depression and anxiety: Neural prediction of treatment response

M Kryza-Lacombe, I Spaulding, CK Ku… - … Research and Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Psychosocial treatments targeting the positive valence system (PVS) in depression and
anxiety demonstrate efficacy in enhancing positive affect (PA), but response to treatment …

Prioritized neural processing of social threats during perceptual decision-making

M El Zein, R Mennella, M Sequestro, E Meaux, V Wyart… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Emotional signals, notably those signaling threat, benefit from prioritized processing in the
human brain. Yet, it remains unclear whether perceptual decisions about the emotional …

Carvacrol alleviates CUMS-induced depressive-like behaviors and cognitive impairment by reducing oxidative stress and neuroinflammation in mice

JT Valentim, DMA da Silva, VCC Capibaribe… - Behavioural Brain …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study aimed to evaluate the protective potential of carvacrol against depressive-
like behavior and cognitive impairment prompted by chronic unpredictable mild stress …

[PDF][PDF] How emotional expressions motivate action

R Mennella, J Grezes - PsyArXiv. March, 2023 - osf.io
Social adaptation requires humans to respond to others' nonverbal emotional cues, by
selecting and executing adaptive motor responses. In this chapter, we provide a general …

[HTML][HTML] Social support mediates the effects of childhood unpredictability on anhedonia: A retrospective investigation in an online adult community sample

KE Null, JM Duda, DA Pizzagalli - Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasingly, research is highlighting the implications of exposure to unpredictable
environments during childhood (ie,“childhood unpredictability”) on outcomes in adulthood …

[PDF][PDF] Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability

M Sequestro, J Serfaty, J Grèzes, R Mennella - 2024 - researchgate.net
Adaptative action selection in threatening social contexts, for example when facing
aggressive individuals, is core to social behavior. It is debated whether, when facing threat …

Prioritized neural computations of socially-relevant signals during perceptual decision-making

E Meaux, M El Zein, R Mennella, V Wyart, J Grèzes - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Socially-relevant signals benefit from prioritized processing, from initial orientation to
behavioral choice elaboration. Yet it remains unclear whether such prioritized processing …