The neuroscience of positive emotions and affect: Implications for cultivating happiness and wellbeing

A ride in the park: Cycling in different outdoor environments modulates the auditory evoked potentials

(2020) Joanna E.M. Scanlon et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress: what's the potential for scaling up?

(2020) Charlotte Hanlon et al.   Lancet Global Health

The role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in dorsomedial prefrontal–amygdala neural circuitry during positive‐social emotion regulation

(2020) Frank Scharnowski et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Neuroimaging the consciousness of self: Review, and conceptual-methodological framework

(2020) Paul Frewen et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The neuroscience of sadness: A multidisciplinary synthesis and collaborative review

(2020) Juan A. Arias et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Electroencephalography profiles as a biomarker of wellbeing: A twin study

(2020) Miranda R. Chilver et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

Heightened defensive responses following subtotal lesions of macaque orbitofrontal cortex

(2019) Maia S. Pujara et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Physiological Feelings

(2019) Edward F. Pace-Schott et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The role of hedonics in the Human Affectome

(2019) Susanne Becker et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Brain mechanisms of social touch-induced analgesia in females

(2019) Marina López-Solà et al.   PAIN

The impact of affective information on working memory: A pair of meta-analytic reviews of behavioral and neuroimaging evidence.

(2019) Susanne Schweizer et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Impulsive Responses to Positive and Negative Emotions: Parallel Neurocognitive Correlates and their Implications

(2019) Sheri L. Johnson et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The influence of stimulus valence on perceptual processing of facial expressions and subsequent response inhibition

(2019) Laura A. Stockdale et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Behavioral and neural correlates of hide-and-seek in rats

(2019) Annika Stefanie Reinhold et al.   SCIENCE

The Default Mode Network’s Role in Discrete Emotion

(2019) Ajay B. Satpute et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Neuroanatomical predictors of response to subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression

(2019) Tejas Sankar et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & NEUROSCIENCE

The feeling of anger: From brain networks to linguistic expressions

(2019) Nelly Alia-Klein et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Environmentally enriched pigs have transcriptional profiles consistent with neuroprotective effects and reduced microglial activity

(2018) S.M. Brown et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Large-scale brain network connectivity underlying creativity in resting-state and task fMRI: Cooperation between default network and frontal-parietal network

(2018) Liang Shi et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

The cognitive up- and down-regulation of positive emotion: Evidence from behavior, electrophysiology, and neuroimaging

(2018) Fenghua Li et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Age differences in the neural response to emotional distraction during working memory encoding

(2018) Maryam Ziaei et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Activation patterns of vasopressinergic and oxytocinergic brain regions following social play exposure in juvenile male and female rats

(2018) C. J. Reppucci et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Genetic correlations between wellbeing, depression and anxiety symptoms and behavioral responses to the emotional faces task in healthy twins

(2018) Kylie M. Routledge et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

Impaired Working Memory Updating for Emotional Stimuli in Depressed Patients

(2018) Dandan Zhang et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Positive Affect and Health: What Do We Know and Where Next Should We Go?

(2018) Sarah D. Pressman et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Mapping the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Emotional Processing: An MEG Study Across Arousal and Valence Dimensions

(2018) Charis Styliadis et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Healthy play, better coping: The importance of play for the development of children in health and disease

(2018) Sanne L. Nijhof et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Parallels and Overlap: The Integration of Homeostatic Signals by Mesolimbic Dopamine Neurons

(2018) Ted M. Hsu et al.   Frontiers in Psychiatry

What is animal happiness?

(2018) Laura E. Webb et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

A negative association between brainstem pontine grey-matter volume, well-being and resilience in healthy twins

(2018) Justine M. Gatt et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & NEUROSCIENCE

Accelerated TMS for Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2018) A. Irem Sonmez et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

Mindfulness Meditation and Psychopathology

(2018) Joseph Wielgosz et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Toward a Choice-Based Judgment Bias Task for Horses

(2017) Sara Hintze et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE

Buildings, Beauty, and the Brain: A Neuroscience of Architectural Experience

(2017) Alex Coburn et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Effort-Based Reinforcement Processing and Functional Connectivity Underlying Amotivation in Medicated Patients with Depression and Schizophrenia

(2017) Il Ho Park et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Biased Oxytocinergic Modulation of Midbrain Dopamine Systems

(2017) Lei Xiao et al.   NEURON

Age-related alterations in functional connectivity patterns during working memory encoding of emotional items

(2017) Maryam Ziaei et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

The orbitofrontal cortex and emotion in health and disease, including depression

(2017) Edmund T. Rolls   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Serotonin depletion induces pessimistic-like behavior in a cognitive bias paradigm in pigs

(2017) Jenny Stracke et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Variation in the β-endorphin, oxytocin, and dopamine receptor genes is associated with different dimensions of human sociality

(2017) Eiluned Pearce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gating of social reward by oxytocin in the ventral tegmental area

(2017) Lin W. Hung et al.   SCIENCE

Explicit and implicit emotion regulation: a multi-level framework

(2017) Laura Martin Braunstein et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Mood congruent tuning of reward expectation in positive mood: evidence from FRN and theta modulations

(2017) Katharina Paul et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Music-induced positive mood broadens the scope of auditory attention

(2017) Vesa Putkinen et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Cool, callous and in control: superior inhibitory control in frequent players of video games with violent content

(2017) Laura Stockdale et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Environmental conditions differentially affect neurobehavioral outcomes in a mouse model of sepsis-associated encephalopathy

(2017) Mu-Huo Ji et al.   Oncotarget

Evidence for the triadic model of adolescent brain development: Cognitive load and task-relevance of emotion differentially affect adolescents and adults

(2017) Sven C. Mueller et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

The Affective Neuroscience of Aging

(2016) Mara Mather   Annual Review of Psychology

Dissecting the Role of Oxytocin in the Formation and Loss of Social Relationships

(2016) René Hurlemann et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin

(2016) Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The effect of oxytocin on attention to angry and happy faces in chronic depression

(2016) Gregor Domes et al.   BMC Psychiatry

The neural correlates of happiness: A review of PET and fMRI studies using autobiographical recall methods

(2016) Angelo Suardi et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Changing views of emotion regulation and neurobiological models of the mechanism of action of psychotherapy

(2016) Irene Messina et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Positive Emotional Learning Induces Resilience to Depression: A Role for NMDA Receptor-mediated Synaptic Plasticity

(2016) Jeffrey Burgdorf et al.   Current Neuropharmacology

Urban planning with respect to environmental quality and human well-being

(2016) Thomas Panagopoulos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the value of control

(2016) Amitai Shenhav et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The modulating role of ADRA2B in emotional working memory: Attending the negative but remembering the positive

(2016) Nicola Mammarella et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Normative data for subcortical regional volumes over the lifetime of the adult human brain

(2016) Olivier Potvin et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Structural and functional associations of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex with subjective happiness

(2016) Masahiro Matsunaga et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Estimating brain age using high-resolution pattern recognition: Younger brains in long-term meditation practitioners

(2016) Eileen Luders et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Functional neuroanatomy of meditation: A review and meta-analysis of 78 functional neuroimaging investigations

(2016) Kieran C.R. Fox et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Shared versus distinct genetic contributions of mental wellbeing with depression and anxiety symptoms in healthy twins

(2016) Kylie M. Routledge et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

A methodological approach to understanding the wellbeing and restorative benefits associated with greenspace

(2016) Anna Conniff et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Enriched Housing Reduces Disease Susceptibility to Co-Infection with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Virus (PRRSV) and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (A. pleuropneumoniae) in Young Pigs

(2016) Ingrid D. E. van Dixhoorn et al.   PLoS One

Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neuron Subtypes Mediate Depression-Related Outcomes to Social Defeat Stress

(2015) T. Chase Francis et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Happy and less inhibited? Effects of positive mood on inhibitory control during an antisaccade task revealed using topographic evoked potential mapping

(2015) Naomi Vanlessen et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Default mode network dissociation in depressive and anxiety states

(2015) Joana Fernandes Coutinho et al.   Brain Imaging and Behavior

The Brain Basis of Positive and Negative Affect: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of the Human Neuroimaging Literature

(2015) Kristen A. Lindquist et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Playful fun in dogs

(2015) Marc Bekoff   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fun and play in invertebrates

(2015) Sarah Zylinski   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Play in dolphins

(2015) Vincent M. Janik   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Do birds have the capacity for fun?

(2015) Nathan J. Emery et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Play in fishes, frogs and reptiles

(2015) Gordon M. Burghardt   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The neurobiology of emotion–cognition interactions: fundamental questions and strategies for future research

(2015) Hadas Okon-Singer et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Produces an Antidepressant-Like Effect and Elicits N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Independent Long-Term Potentiation of Synaptic Transmission in Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus

(2015) Jeffrey Burgdorf et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Physiological correlates of the flow experience during computer game playing

(2015) László Harmat et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing

(2015) Andrew Steptoe et al.   LANCET

What the orbitofrontal cortex does not do

(2015) Thomas A Stalnaker et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Distinct cerebellar lobules process arousal, valence and their interaction in parallel following a temporal hierarchy

(2015) Charis Styliadis et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Pleasure Systems in the Brain

(2015) Kent C. Berridge et al.   NEURON

An Exploration Based Cognitive Bias Test for Mice: Effects of Handling Method and Stereotypic Behaviour

(2015) Janja Novak et al.   PLoS One

Reduced age-related degeneration of the hippocampal subiculum in long-term meditators

(2015) Florian Kurth et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING

Positive interventions: An emotion regulation perspective.

(2015) Jordi Quoidbach et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Emotionally anesthetized: media violence induces neural changes during emotional face processing

(2015) Laura A. Stockdale et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Resting-state functional connectivity of the default mode network associated with happiness

(2015) Yangmei Luo et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Reconstructing and deconstructing the self: cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice

(2015) Cortland J. Dahl et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Emotional foundations of cognitive control

(2015) Michael Inzlicht et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Brain Circuits Encoding Reward from Pain Relief

(2015) Edita Navratilova et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Poverty, inequality and a political economy of mental health

(2015) J. K. Burns   Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

The Effects of Electrical and Optical Stimulation of Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons on Rat 50-kHz Ultrasonic Vocalizations

(2015) Tina Scardochio et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Happy hamsters? Enrichment induces positive judgement bias for mildly (but not truly) ambiguous cues to reward and punishment inMesocricetus auratus

(2015) Emily J. Bethell et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Behaviour of horses in a judgment bias test associated with positive or negative reinforcement

(2014) Sabrina Briefer Freymond et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

The effects of cocaine and mazindol on the cognitive judgement bias of rats in the ambiguous-cue interpretation paradigm

(2014) Rafal Rygula et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

A Framework for Studying Emotions across Species

(2014) David J. Anderson et al.   CELL

Dissociable influences of reward motivation and positive emotion on cognitive control

(2014) Kimberly S. Chiew et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Age-related alterations of brain network underlying the retrieval of emotional autobiographical memories: an fMRI study using independent component analysis

(2014) Ruiyang Ge et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Reward and motivation in pain and pain relief

(2014) Edita Navratilova et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Emotional modulation of control dilemmas: The role of positive affect, reward, and dopamine in cognitive stability and flexibility

(2014) Thomas Goschke et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Dissociating contributions of ACC and vmPFC in reward prediction, outcome, and choice

(2014) Eliana Vassena et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Contributions of the Insula to Cognition and Emotion

(2014) Philip Gerard Gasquoine   NEUROPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW

Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners

(2014) Kieran C.R. Fox et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Hope for the Best or Prepare for the Worst? Towards a Spatial Cognitive Bias Test for Mice

(2014) Vanessa Kloke et al.   PLoS One

The heritability of mental health and wellbeing defined using COMPAS-W, a new composite measure of wellbeing

(2014) Justine M. Gatt et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

Assessing gonadal hormone contributions to affective psychopathologies across humans and animal models

(2014) S.C. Mueller et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Acute administration of lithium, but not valproate, modulates cognitive judgment bias in rats

(2014) Rafal Rygula et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Arousal modulates valence effects on both early and late stages of affective picture processing in a passive viewing task

(2014) Chunliang Feng et al.   Social Neuroscience

Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex: one decade on

(2014) Adam R. Aron et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Environmental enrichment alters protein expression as well as the proteomic response to cocaine in rat nucleus accumbens

(2014) Cheryl F. Lichti et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being

(2014) Madhav Goyal et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

BOLD signal and functional connectivity associated with loving kindness meditation

(2014) Kathleen A. Garrison et al.   Brain and Behavior

Responses of conventional pigs and Göttingen miniature pigs in an active choice judgement bias task

(2013) Eimear Murphy et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Oxytocin Influences Processing of Socially Relevant Cues in the Ventral Tegmental Area of the Human Brain

(2013) Sarah E. Groppe et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Probing emotional influences on cognitive control: an ALE meta-analysis of cognition emotion interactions

(2013) Sofie Cromheeke et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies

(2013) J. T. Buhle et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure

(2013) Kent C Berridge et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Amygdala responses to valence and its interaction by arousal revealed by MEG

(2013) Charalampos Styliadis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Amygdala Functional Connectivity with Medial Prefrontal Cortex at Rest Predicts the Positivity Effect in Older Adults' Memory

(2013) Michiko Sakaki et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Affective Modulation of Cognitive Control is Determined by Performance-Contingency and Mediated by Ventromedial Prefrontal and Cingulate Cortex

(2013) Senne Braem et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neural correlates of experimentally induced flow experiences

(2013) Martin Ulrich et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Social Play Behavior in Adolescent Rats is Mediated by Functional Activity in Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Striatum

(2013) Linda WM van Kerkhof et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Time course of brain activation elicited by basic emotions

(2013) Pascal Hot et al.   NEUROREPORT

Trait emotional intelligence and inflammatory diseases

(2013) Sebastiano Costa et al.   Psychology Health & Medicine

Enhanced orienting of attention in response to emotional gaze cues after oxytocin administration in healthy young men

(2013) Marieke S. Tollenaar et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Oxytocin and psychotherapy: A pilot study of its physiological, behavioral and subjective effects in males with depression

(2013) Kai MacDonald et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Neural correlates of the ‘good life’: eudaimonic well-being is associated with insular cortex volume

(2013) Gary J. Lewis et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Stress-induced anhedonia is associated with hypertrophy of medium spiny neurons of the nucleus accumbens

(2013) J M Bessa et al.   Translational Psychiatry

Searching for Animal Sentience: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Literature

(2013) Helen Proctor et al.   Animals

The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review

(2012) Kristen A. Lindquist et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Environmental enrichment attenuates hippocampal neuroinflammation and improves cognitive function during influenza infection

(2012) Heidi A. Jurgens et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY

Emotional memory retrieval. rTMS stimulation on left DLPFC increases the positive memories

(2012) Michela Balconi et al.   Brain Imaging and Behavior

A glass full of optimism: Enrichment effects on cognitive bias in a rat model of depression

(2012) Sophie Helene Richter et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state

(2012) Gaëlle Desbordes et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Endocannabinoids in Amygdala and Nucleus Accumbens Mediate Social Play Reward in Adolescent Rats

(2012) V. Trezza et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Social neuroscience and health: neurophysiological mechanisms linking social ties with physical health

(2012) Naomi I Eisenberger et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Variation in longitudinal trajectories of regional brain volumes of healthy men and women (ages 10 to 85years) measured with atlas-based parcellation of MRI

(2012) Adolf Pfefferbaum et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Individual differences in the proneness to have flow experiences are linked to dopamine D2-receptor availability in the dorsal striatum

(2012) Örjan de Manzano et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The importance of context: When relative relief renders pain pleasant

(2012) Siri Leknes et al.   PAIN

Evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being

(2012) A. Weiss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intranasal oxytocin increases covert attention to positive social cues

(2012) G. Domes et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

Oxytocin differentially modulates eye gaze to naturalistic social signals of happiness and anger

(2012) Gregor Domes et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

The variable nature of cognitive control: a dual mechanisms framework

(2012) Todd S. Braver   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Using judgement bias to measure positive affective state in dogs

(2011) Oliver Burman et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Animal Behaviour: Emotion in Invertebrates?

(2011) Michael Mendl et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus Improves Reward-Based Decision-Learning in Parkinson's Disease

(2011) Nelleke C. van Wouwe et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Age Differences in Brain Activity during Emotion Processing: Reflections of Age-Related Decline or Increased Emotion Regulation?

(2011) Kaoru Nashiro et al.   GERONTOLOGY

Age Differences in Memory for Arousing and Nonarousing Emotional Words

(2011) E. A. Kensinger   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Emotion regulation and brain plasticity: Expressive suppression use predicts anterior insula volume

(2011) Nicole R. Giuliani et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The serendipitous discovery of the brain's default network

(2011) Randy L. Buckner   NEUROIMAGE

In search of the neurobiological substrates for social playfulness in mammalian brains

(2011) Stephen M. Siviy et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The basic emotional circuits of mammalian brains: Do animals have affective lives?

(2011) Jaak Panksepp   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity

(2011) J. A. Brewer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disentangling pleasure from incentive salience and learning signals in brain reward circuitry

(2011) K. S. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abnormal prefrontal activity subserving attentional control of emotion in remitted depressed patients during a working memory task with emotional distracters

(2011) R. Kerestes et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats

(2010) Nichola M. Brydges et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Stereotyping starlings are more ‘pessimistic’

(2010) Ben O. Brilot et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Normal maternal behavior, but increased pup mortality, in conditional oxytocin receptor knockout females.

(2010) Abbe H. Macbeth et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Anterior Cingulate Activation Is Related to a Positivity Bias and Emotional Stability in Successful Aging

(2010) Stefanie Brassen et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Cognitive bias in the chick anxiety–depression model

(2010) Amy L. Salmeto et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Saliency, switching, attention and control: a network model of insula function

(2010) Vinod Menon et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Co-occurring anxiety influences patterns of brain activity in depression

(2010) A. S. Engels et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Working memory

(2010) Alan Baddeley   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dogs showing separation-related behaviour exhibit a ‘pessimistic’ cognitive bias

(2010) Michael Mendl et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Emotion triggers executive attention: Anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala responses to emotional words in a conflict task

(2010) Philipp Kanske et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Oxytocin role in enhancing well-being: A literature review

(2010) Waguih William IsHak et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Imagined positive emotions and inhibitory control: The differentiated effect of pride versus happiness.

(2010) Maayan Katzir et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION

Trajectories of brain aging in middle-aged and older adults: Regional and individual differences

(2010) Naftali Raz et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Longitudinal changes in cortical thickness associated with normal aging

(2010) Madhav Thambisetty et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Reconsidering anhedonia in depression: Lessons from translational neuroscience

(2010) Michael T. Treadway et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Increased default mode network connectivity associated with meditation

(2010) Joon Hwan Jang et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood

(2010) M. Mendl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Oxytocin improves specific recognition of positive facial expressions

(2010) Abigail A. Marsh et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Localization of asymmetric brain function in emotion and depression

(2010) John D. Herrington et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind

(2010) M. A. Killingsworth et al.   SCIENCE

Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

(2010) Amit Etkin et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The pleasures of play: pharmacological insights into social reward mechanisms

(2010) Viviana Trezza et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

(2010) Julianne Holt-Lunstad et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Prevalence of Mood, Anxiety, and Substance-Abuse Disorders for Older Americans in the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication

(2009) Amber M. Gum et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY

Social and Emotional Aging

(2009) Susan T. Charles et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Release from restraint generates a positive judgement bias in sheep

(2009) Rebecca E. Doyle et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the play fighting of rats.

(2009) Heather C. Bell et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

There are age-related changes in neural connectivity during the encoding of positive, but not negative, information

(2009) Donna R. Addis et al.   CORTEX

Reconstructing the Evolution of Laughter in Great Apes and Humans

(2009) Marina Davila Ross et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dissecting components of reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, and learning

(2009) Kent C Berridge et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PHARMACOLOGY

Comparison of long-acting testosterone undecanoate formulation versus testosterone enanthate on sexual function and mood in hypogonadal men

(2009) F Jockenhövel et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY

Long-term cognitive enrichment affects opioid receptor expression in the amygdala of domestic pigs

(2009) C. Kalbe et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Positive Affect Modulates Flexibility and Evaluative Control

(2009) Nelleke C. van Wouwe et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Psychobiology and molecular genetics of resilience

(2009) Adriana Feder et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Consistent neuroanatomical age-related volume differences across multiple samples

(2009) Kristine B. Walhovd et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Emotional context modulates response inhibition: Neural and behavioral data

(2009) Jacobo Albert et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The time course of activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex during top-down attentional control

(2009) Rebecca Levin Silton et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Ambiguous-Cue Interpretation is Biased Under Stress- and Depression-Like States in Rats

(2009) Thomas Enkel et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Emotional moments across time: a possible neural basis for time perception in the anterior insula

(2009) A.D. Craig   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Anxiety-induced cognitive bias in non-human animals

(2009) Oliver H.P. Burman et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Time course of attentional bias in anxiety: Emotion and gender specificity

(2009) Sarah M. Sass et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

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