The authors review a range of evidence concerning the motivational underpinnings of anger
as an affect, with particular reference to the relationship between anger and anxiety or fear …

We review research on the structure and functions of emotions that has benefitted from a
serious consideration of both discrete and dimensional perspectives on emotion. To …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

We discuss some research that has examined approach motivational urges and how this
research clarifies the definition of approach motivation. Our research and that of others have …

In the past decade, several conceptual papers have linked variation in animal personality to
variation in cognition, and recent years have seen a flood of empirical studies testing this …

Consumption of caffeine, an adenosine receptor antagonist, was found to be inversely
associated with the incidence of Alzheimer's disease. Moreover, caffeine protects cultured …

It is not known whether behaviors unrelated to feeding are affected by hypothalamic
regulators of hunger. We found that impairment of Agouti-related protein (AgRP) circuitry by …

We have previously reported that acute dopaminergic blockade in healthy volunteers results
in a transient disruption of the recognition of facial expressions of anger, whilst leaving intact …

Current formal psychiatric approaches to nosology are plagued by an unwieldy degree of
heterogeneity with insufficient appreciation of the commonalities of emotional, personality …

Aims: This study examined the role of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in mediating
chronic intermittent hypoxia (IH)-induced neurocognitive deficits. We designed experiments …