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Neurosciences
Moe Mihara, Reina Izumika, Takashi Tsukiura
Summary: This study investigated the mechanisms underlying reward prediction error (RPE)-induced memory modulation in terms of social rewards. The results showed that RPE in facial attractiveness was associated with activity in the ventral striatum (VS) and surrounding areas. Functional connectivity between the extended VS and the hippocampus was observed most frequently in positive RPE. These findings suggest that memory improvements by face-based RPE could involve functional networks between the extended VS and the hippocampus, and this interaction could be modulated by RPE values in a social context.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Martin Skov, Marcos Nadal
Summary: Beauty is commonly used to refer to positive evaluative appraisals that are uniquely human. It shares computational mechanisms with other forms of hedonic appraisal of sensory objects but is distinguished by specific conceptual expectations. To qualify as beautiful, an object must elicit especially high levels of pleasure and be matched to internal learned models of what counts as beautiful.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Kristina M. Rapuano, May I. Conley, Anthony C. Juliano, Gregory M. Conan, Maria T. Maza, Kylie Woodman, Steven A. Martinez, Eric Earl, Anders Perrone, Eric Feczko, Damien A. Fair, Richard Watts, B. J. Casey, Monica D. Rosenberg
Summary: As public access to longitudinal developmental datasets like the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study increases, it is important to have resources to differentiate time-dependent effects. In this study, an accelerated adult equivalent of the ABCD Study dataset was created to quantify developmental changes. The results showed that task-based brain activation was more similar within individuals across repeated scan sessions than between individuals, indicating differences in data reliability.
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Neuroimaging
Maike Richter, Sophia Widera, Franziska Malz, Janik Goltermann, Lavinia Steinmann, Anna Kraus, Verena Enneking, Susanne Meinert, Jonathan Repple, Ronny Redlich, Elisabeth. J. J. Leehr, Dominik Grotegerd, Katharina Dohm, Harald Kugel, Jochen Bauer, Volker Arolt, Udo Dannlowski, Nils Opel
Summary: Obesity is associated with alterations in brain structure and function, particularly in areas related to reward processing. Functional neuroimaging studies with modest sample sizes have shown that higher body weight is associated with hyperresponsiveness of the reward circuit. However, a large-sample study was conducted to replicate this finding and investigate reward processing in individuals with higher body weight but below the clinical obesity threshold. The results show that higher BMI is associated with increased reward response in the insula, and this association is no longer significant when individuals with obesity are excluded from the analysis. The study also found higher activation in obese individuals compared to lean individuals, but no difference between lean and overweight participants.
BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Anna Gabor, Attila Andics, Adam Miklosi, Kalman Czeibert, Cecilia Carreiro, Marta Gacsi
Summary: The study found that the level of attachment dogs feel towards their owners affects their neural activity response to their owner's voice and praise, showing similarities to infant-mother attachment.
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Neurosciences
Anne K. Baker, Lauren C. Ericksen, Vincent Koppelmans, Brian J. Mickey, Katherine T. Martucci, Jon-Kar Zubieta, Tiffany M. Love
Summary: There is a reciprocal relationship between chronic pain and reward processing. This study found that males with chronic pain exhibited reduced anticipatory responses to reward in the striatum compared to control males, while no significant sex differences were observed among female patients. These findings highlight the importance of considering sex as a factor of interest in future studies on reward processing in the context of chronic pain.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Psychiatry
Lingxiao Wang, Guochun Yang, Ya Zheng, Zhenghan Li, Yue Qi, Qi Li, Xun Liu
Summary: Individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) show a preference for risky behavior in pursuit of high rewards compared to healthy controls (HC), and exhibit exaggerated brain activity in the striatum during reward anticipation and outcome monitoring. These findings suggest that oversensitivity of the reward system to potential and positive rewards drives individuals with IGD to approach risky options more frequently.
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS
(2021)
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Neuroimaging
Natania A. Crane, Fini Chang, Kerry L. Kinney, Heide Klumpp
Summary: The study found that greater putamen activity and less amygdala activity in response to angry faces were related to greater social anxiety severity in individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder. However, there was no relationship between brain activity in response to fearful faces and social anxiety severity. Clinical features revealed that levels of anhedonia and general anxiety symptoms may contribute to social anxiety severity.
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Zhitang Chen, Zhenghua Wang, Yuhua Shen, Suhua Zeng, Xiangyu Yang, Yifang Kuang, Zheng Dou, Lihui Wang, Weidong Li
Summary: This study investigated the aesthetic characteristics of depression and the corresponding neural underpinnings. The results showed that depression patients tended to give ugly judgments and refrained from giving beautiful judgments, especially for faces. The neural analysis revealed negative biases in the N170 and N200 components, as well as decreased brain synchronization at the theta band, during the evaluation of ugly and beautiful faces in depression.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Guanmin Liu, Na Zhang, Jia Yuan Teoh, Christine Egan, Thomas A. Zeffiro, Richard J. Davidson, Karina Quevedo
Summary: This study found an inverse relationship between self-compassion and neural activity during sad self-face recognition, with self-compassion correlating negatively with activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in the total sample. In depressed adolescents, higher self-compassion was associated with lower activity in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during sad self-face recognition, suggesting less cognitive effort might be needed to regulate negative affect induced by sad self-faces.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zetian Yang, Winrich A. Freiwald
Summary: Faces in motion provide rich information through visual dynamics. The middle dorsal face area (MD) in the macaque monkey superior temporal sulcus (STS) shows selectivity for naturalistic face motion. Single-unit recordings from MD reveal its sensitivity to facial motion and shape, and its ability to encode complex facial motion trajectories.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Uta Sailer, Federica Riva, Jana Lieberz, Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn, Dirk Scheele, Daniela M. Pfabigan
Summary: The hormone ghrelin influences food search and consumption, as well as the value of non-food rewards. This study investigated the relationship between nutritional state, ghrelin concentrations, and subjective/neural responses to social and non-social rewards. The results showed that ghrelin did not affect the response to social rewards, but reduced activation in the prefrontal cortex for non-social rewards when ghrelin was suppressed after a meal.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Mark Reybrouck
Summary: This commentary provides an overview of the disciplinary history of semiotics and biosemiotics, and their connection to aesthetics. It focuses on Kalevi Kull's approach to this topic, highlighting its merits and suggesting possible extensions and future research directions.
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Neurosciences
Pietro Sarasso, Gianni Francesetti, Jan Roubal, Michela Gecele, Irene Ronga, Marco Neppi-Modona, Katiuscia Sacco
Summary: Gestalt therapy views psychological suffering and psychotherapy as intentional field phenomena, where unprocessed experiences seek assimilation through interaction between patient and therapist. Aesthetic experience in therapy can provide feedback, help modify rigid psychopathological fields, and support openness to new experiences, facilitating change. Expecting beauty in therapy can help therapists tolerate uncertainty, avoid impulsivity, and stay attuned to the process of change.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Substance Abuse
Stefanie L. Kunas, Heiner Stuke, Andreas Heinz, Andreas Strohle, Felix Bermpohl
Summary: This study aimed to investigate differences in reward and threat processing between quitting-motivated tobacco use disorder subjects and never-smokers. The findings suggest that individuals with tobacco use disorder exhibit altered brain reward processing towards drug-related positive cues, but not negative cues, compared to never smokers.
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Clinical Neurology
Ritobrato Datta, John A. Detre, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Brett Cucchiara
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Clinical Neurology
Ritobrato Datta, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Siyuan Hu, John A. Detre, Brett Cucchiara
Correction
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Noah C. Benson, Omar H. Butt, Ritobrato Datta, Petya D. Radoeva, David H. Brainard, Geoffrey K. Aguirre
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Noah C. Benson, Omar H. Butt, Ritobrato Datta, Petya D. Radoeva, David H. Brainard, Geoffrey K. Aguirre
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Neurosciences
Alison Harris, Geoffrey Karl Aguirre
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2010)
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Neurosciences
Elaine B. Wencil, H. Branch Coslett, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Anjan Chatterjee
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2010)
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Neurosciences
Lindsay K. Morgan, Sean P. MacEvoy, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Russell A. Epstein
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2011)
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Neurosciences
Omar H. Butt, Noah C. Benson, Ritobrato Datta, Geoffrey K. Aguirre
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2013)
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Neurosciences
Geoffrey Karl Aguirre, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Lucia Magis-Weinberg
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Neurosciences
David Alexander Kahn, Geoffrey Karl Aguirre
Review
Neurosciences
Geoffrey K. Aguirre
Review
Neurosciences
Geoffrey K. Aguirre, John A. Detre
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ritobrato Datta, Jongho Lee, Jeffrey Duda, Brian B. Avants, Charles H. Vite, Ben Tseng, James C. Gee, Gustavo D. Aguirre, Geoffrey K. Aguirre
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brett Cucchiara, Ronald L. Wolf, Lidia Nagae, Quan Zhang, Scott Kasner, Ritobrato Datta, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, John A. Detre
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Ophthalmology
Tomas S. Aleman, Artur V. Cideciyan, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Wei Chieh Huang, Cristina L. Mullins, Alejandro J. Roman, Alexander Sumaroka, Melani B. Olivares, Frank F. Tsai, Sharon B. Schwartz, Luk H. Vandenberghe, Maria P. Limberis, Edwin M. Stone, Peter Bell, James M. Wilson, Samuel G. Jacobson
INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
(2011)