Goubert a,b,*,1, K.D. Craigc, T. Vervoort a,b,2, S. Morleyd, M.J.L. Sullivane, A.C. de C. Williams f, A. Canog, G. Crombeza,b aDepartment of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium bResearch Institute for Psychology & Health, Utrecht, The Netherlands Introduction A wealth of research addresses intra-individual determinants of pain, distress and disability. In contrast, limited …
Efstathios Garoflos†, Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos†, Stavroula Pondiki†, Antonios Stamatakis†, Eleni Philippidis and Fotini Stylianopoulou* Abstract In the present study we investigated the effects of neonatal handling, an animal model of early experience, on spatial learning and memory, on hippocampal glucocorticoid (GR), mineralocorticoid (MR) and type 1A serotonin (5-HT1A) receptors, as well as brain derived neurotrophic factor …
Arne O¨ hman Psychology Section, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute and Hospital, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden Summary Behavioral data suggest that fear stimuli automatically activate fear and capture attention. This effect is likely to be mediated by a subcortical brain network centered on the amygdala. Consistent with this view, brain imaging studies show that …
Vania Apkarian a,*, M. Catherine Bushnell b, Rolf-Detlef Treede c, Jon-Kar Zubieta d a Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Ward 5-003, Chicago, IL 60611, USA b Department of Anesthesia, McGill University, Montreal, Canada c Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany d Department of Psychiatry and …
Ronald Melzack, Ph.D. Abstract The neuromatrix theory of pain proposes that pain is a multidimensional experience produced by characteristic “neurosignature” patterns of nerve impulses generated by a widely distributed neural network—the “body-self neuromatrix”—in the brain. These neurosignature patterns may be triggered by sensory inputs, but they may also be generated independently of them. Acute pains …
Melzack S U M M A R Y The gate control theory’s most important contribution to understanding pain was its emphasis on central neural mechanisms. The theory forced the medical and biological sciences to accept the brain as an active system that filters, selects and modulates inputs. The dorsal horns, too, were not merely passive …
Philip L. Smith1 and Roger Ratcliff2 1Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia 2Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, 1885 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Patterns of neural firing linked to eye movement decisions show that behavioral decisions are predicted by the differential firing rates of cells coding selected and …
Jeffrey D Schall Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Recent studies aim to explain the duration and variability of behavioral reaction time in terms of neural processes. The time taken to make choices is occupied by at least two processes. Neurons in sensorimotor structures accumulate evidence …
Daniel C. Krawczyk* Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles Abstract The neural basis of decision making has been an elusive concept largely due to the many subprocesses associated with it. Recent efforts involving neuroimaging, neuropsychological studies, and animal work indicate that the prefrontal cortex plays a central role in several of these subprocesses. …
S.G. Shamay-Tsoorya,∗, N. Adlera, J. Aharon-Peretzb, D. Perrya, N. Mayselessa a Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel b Rambam Medical Center, P.O. Box 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel A b s t r a c t Although creativity has been related to prefrontal activity, recent neurological case studies postulate that patients who have …
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