Review
Anatomy & Morphology
Nicola Palomero-Gallagher, Katrin Amunts
Summary: Emotions are valenced mental and physiological responses that can influence behavior, supported by large-scale integrated neuronal networks with potential lateralization in processing. The controversy lies in the specific role of each hemisphere, with hypotheses ranging from overall hemispheric specialization to dynamic models incorporating multiple interrelated networks.
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Lingling Ding, Hao Liu, Jing Jing, Yong Jiang, Xia Meng, Yaojing Chen, Xingquan Zhao, Haijun Niu, Tao Liu, Yongjun Wang, Zixiao Li
Summary: In this study, a comprehensive map of strategic lesion network localizations for neurological deficits in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients was created. Prognostic neuroimaging biomarkers were identified to aid in the early detection of high-risk patients with poor functional outcomes.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Sylvie Droit-Volet, Florie Monier, Natalia N. Martinelli
Summary: When people say time is passing faster or slower, they are referring to clock time. Three experiments were conducted to examine the role of clock time in the perception of time. The results showed that the presence of an external clock made time seem to pass faster, reducing the distortion of the sense of time. However, this effect was temporary and diminished over time, with the feeling of time remaining based on emotional experience rather than clock knowledge.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Md Qutubuddin, Tilahun Kochito Gibo, Raju S. Bapi, Yadaiah Narri
Summary: This paper presents a bio-inspired intelligent controller, BASIC, designed to enhance the performance of a nonlinear system by capturing the emotional intelligence of mammalian brain. The controller's computational efficiency, accuracy and robustness are established through offline simulations and real-time Hardware-in-loop environment comparisons with existing control techniques on a typical nonlinear system. Incorporating the sensory cortex, the proposed brain-inspired control architecture proves to be effective in coping with nonlinearities present in control applications.
Article
Pediatrics
Matthias W. Wagner, Patricia P. Rafful, Logi Vidarsson, Birgit B. Ertl-Wagner
Summary: The purpose of this study is to report continuous volumetric measurements of limbic system components in children, and provide data on age-related trajectories and sex-related differences. The results show that the volumes of limbic system structures increase with age during childhood.
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Kris Goffin
Summary: This paper defends the judgementalist theory of emotion against the argument from recalcitrant emotions. The author argues that emotion involves a belief-forming process that can generate contradictory beliefs, which refutes the argument from recalcitrant emotions.
Article
Neurosciences
Barbara Tomasino, Eleonora Maggioni, Carolina Bonivento, Maria Nobile, Serena D'Agostini, Filippo Arrigoni, Franco Fabbro, Paolo Brambilla
Summary: This study examined the complex associations of gender and age with the neural mechanisms underlying emotion imagery, finding that women showed significantly increased activation in emotion imagery compared to men, and increasing age led to decreased activation in areas related to mental imagery.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Thomas Baumgartner, Janek S. Lobmaier, Nicole Ruffieux, Daria Knoch
Summary: The study found that individuals who feel guilt after receiving warnings about resource depletion are more likely to make sustainable decisions, while those lacking guilt may not change their behavior or even engage in more unsustainable behavior after warnings.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Review
Neurosciences
Alexandra Zezinka Durfee, Shannon M. Sheppard, Margaret L. Blake, Argye E. Hillis
Summary: This systematic review evaluated the evidence on affective prosody localization in the right hemisphere, finding that right antero-superior regions are associated with affective prosody production while more postero-lateral regions are related to affective prosody comprehension. This supports the idea that distinct regions in the right hemisphere are vital for affective prosody processing.
BRAIN AND COGNITION
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Julie Fleury, Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut, David W. W. Coon, Pauline Komnenich
Summary: This article positions nostalgia as a regulatory resource that cultivates feeling safe and contributes to intrinsic capacity to support healthy aging. Through a narrative review method, the article characterizes feeling safe, summarizes nostalgia's alignment with feeling safe, proposes a theoretical account of how nostalgia cultivates feeling safe, highlights nostalgia's contribution to feeling safe and regulatory capabilities in healthy aging, and offers conclusions and research directions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Rachel Lambert, David Hernandez-Saca, Rebeca Mireles-Rios, Marilyn Monroy Castro
Summary: This paper explores the mathematical identity experiences of Latina students labeled with Learning Disabilities in mathematics classrooms, analyzing the emotional and embodied experiences of learning mathematics through the discourse of emotions. The research reveals that students are influenced by negative discourses around disability and multilingual learners in the development of their mathematical identities, but still maintain a positive mathematical affinity with their mothers.
Article
Business
Stephanie C. C. Lin, Taly Reich, Tamar A. Kreps
Summary: The research shows that after viewing moralized content related to human suffering, consumers believe it is morally appropriate to sustain negative emotions. As a result, they view mood-sustaining consumption as morally appropriate and hedonic consumption as morally inappropriate. Consumers avoid using hedonic consumption to repair their emotions because they prefer morally appropriate behavior, especially those who view themselves as more moral. Marketers can offer hedonic consumption as mood repair when it is morally relevant, allowing consumers to show respect to suffering victims.
JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Haiyun Huang, Qiuyou Xie, Jiahui Pan, Yanbin He, Zhenfu Wen, Ronghao Yu, Yuanqing Li
Summary: This study proposed an EEG-based BCI system for emotion recognition, demonstrating efficient emotion recognition and promising results in detecting emotional states of patients with disorders of consciousness.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
(2021)
Article
Cell Biology
Chiara Morreale, Ilia Bresesti, Annalisa Bosi, Andreina Baj, Cristina Giaroni, Massimo Agosti, Silvia Salvatore
Summary: Recent evidence has shown the interplay between microbiota and the nervous system, which is associated with several pathological conditions and pain regulation. This narrative review discusses the mechanisms underlying pain processing and regulation, focusing on the role of the gut-brain axis.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Wei Ren, Pengfei Wei, Shan Yu, Yong Q. Zhang
Summary: Tail wagging plays an important role in dogs' social interactions, with unique and stable characteristics. Asymmetry in tail wagging develops over time and serves as an indicator of social familiarity. The wagging behavior follows an attractor-like dynamic process.
Article
Anesthesiology
Dan Wang, Laura A. Frey-Law
Summary: Multisensory sensitivity (MSS) is a risk factor for the presence of coexisting chronic pain conditions and can differentiate between pain phenotypes with different levels of central sensitivity. MSS is highest in fibromyalgia (FM), followed by migraine, then low back pain (LBP), and lowest in pain-free individuals. The study also found that elevated MSS scores are associated with an increased risk of having multiple pain comorbidities, and low MSS levels are associated with a lower likelihood of having multiple pain comorbidities.
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Negar Fani, Sahib S. Khalsa
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anesthesiology
Saman Haider, Adam J. Janowski, Joseph B. Lesnak, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Dana L. Dailey, Ruth Chimenti, Laura A. Frey-Law, Kathleen A. Sluka, Giovanni Berardi
Summary: An increasing number of individuals experience prolonged symptoms after having COVID-19, known as post-COVID-19 condition. This study aimed to compare the symptom profiles of individuals with post-COVID-19, fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The study found that all three conditions had elevated levels of pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, catastrophizing, and kinesiophobia. Physical and cognitive function were similarly affected in post-COVID-19, FMS, and CFS, but post-COVID-19 individuals reported lower levels of pain and fatigue compared to FMS and CFS. The comorbidity of post-COVID-19 with FMS and/or CFS worsened pain, fatigue, and psychological aspects. These findings suggest the importance of a biopsychosocial approach in managing post-COVID-19 symptoms.
Article
Anesthesiology
Lindsey R. Yessick, Justine Tanguay, Wiebke Gandhi, Richard Harrison, Ruxandra Dinu, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Emma Borg, Tim V. Salomons
Summary: Due to the subjectivity of pain, it is difficult to accurately judge others' pain. This study found that participants were more influenced by pain indicators they perceived as objective. Additionally, facial expressions had the least impact on observers' judgements of pain.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
(2023)
Review
Anesthesiology
Greig R. R. Adams, Wiebke Gandhi, Richard Harrison, Carien M. M. van Reekum, Desmond Wood-Anderson, Ian Gilron, Tim V. V. Salomons
Summary: Central sensitization (CS) refers to increased pain responsiveness due to sensitization of neurons in the central nervous system. This review aimed to investigate whether self-report questionnaires linked with CS are associated with enhanced nociceptive responses or measure sensitivity in a broader sense (i.e., emotional responses).
Article
Neurosciences
Feliberto De la Cruz, Adam R. Teed, Rachel C. Lapidus, Valerie Upshaw, Andy Schumann, Martin P. Paulus, Karl-Jurgen Bar, Sahib S. Khalsa
Summary: This study found that individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) exhibit dysregulated neural coupling between central autonomic network brain regions and other brain regions involved in motor, premotor, frontal, parietal, and visual processes. These functional connectivity changes were associated with trait anxiety, depression, and negative body image perception, but not with changes in resting heart rate.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY-COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING
(2023)
Article
Physiology
Florian Michaud, Laura A. Frey-Law, Urbano Lugris, Lucia Cuadrado, Jesus Figueroa-Rodriguez, Javier Cuadrado
Summary: This study adapted the three-compartment controller muscle fatigue model to describe the behavior of high-intensity exercise and simulated the recruitment problem of elbow muscles using an inverse-dynamics based optimization algorithm. The results showed that the model predictions were most accurate for the static case, but more precise calibration of muscle parameters was needed for the dynamic case. The study highlights the complexity of obtaining accurate subject-specific human models.
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Adam J. Janowski, Andrew A. Post, Alberto M. Heredia-Rizo, Hadley Mosby, Megan Dao, Laura Frey Law, Emine O. Bayman, Jason M. Wilken, Kathleen A. Sluka, Ruth L. Chimenti
Summary: This study characterized movement-evoked pain in individuals with Achilles tendinopathy during tendon loading and stretching tasks, and found associations between movement-evoked pain and biomechanical and psychological variables.
CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS
(2023)
Article
Orthopedics
P. Corrigan, T. Neogi, L. Frey-Law, S. R. Jafarzadeh, N. Segal, M. C. Nevitt, C. E. Lewis, J. J. Stefanik
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between pain sensitization and poor physical functioning in individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA). The results showed that heightened pain sensitivity was associated with worse self-reported function and slower walking speed. However, its impact on performance-based function was minimal.
OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Emily M. Choquette, Michael C. Flux, Scott E. Moseman, Sheridan Chappelle, Jessyca Naegele, Valerie Upshaw, Alexa Morton, Martin P. Paulus, Justin S. Feinstein, Sahib S. Khalsa
Summary: This study found that compared to usual care, Floatation-REST can acutely reduce body dissatisfaction after each float session and at a six-month follow-up for inpatients with anorexia nervosa. Additionally, there were long-term benefits in terms of lower body dissatisfaction for the Floatation-REST group at the six-month follow-up.
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Soyoung Lee, Tuhina Neogi, Kerry E. Costello, Benjamin Senderling, Joshua J. Stefanik, Laura Frey-Law, Deepak Kumar
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between central pain sensitization and muscle co-contraction during walking in people with knee osteoarthritis. The study found that patients with mechanical temporal summation at the knee exhibited greater knee muscle co-contraction during fast walking. This suggests that mitigating central sensitization may be an intervention target for reducing muscle co-contraction in individuals with knee osteoarthritis.
CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Neurosciences
Sahib Khalsa, Albert Powers, Daniel Javitt, Karen Quigley, Guido Frank, Sarah Stern, Martin Paulus, Jamie Feusner, Joost Haarsma, Sarah Garfinkel, Negar Fani, Guillermo Horga
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2022)
Meeting Abstract
Neurosciences
Charles Verdonk, Adam R. Teed, Evan J. White, Xi Ren, Jennifer L. Stewart, Martin P. Paulus, Sahib S. Khalsa
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Richard Harrison, Wiebke Gandhi, Carien M. van Reekum, Tim Salomons
Summary: This study investigated the association between whole-brain connectivity of the periaqueductal grey (PAG), a core modulatory region, and conditioned pain modulation (CPM) and endogenous pain modulation. The findings showed that CPM was associated with heightened connectivity between the PAG and key regions involved in pain processing and inhibition. These results may serve as brain-based biomarkers for vulnerability or resilience to pain.
Article
Neurosciences
Lindsey R. Yessick, Tim Salomons
Summary: Learned helplessness, which develops with prolonged exposure to uncontrollable stressors, is highly relevant to individuals living with pain or other poorly controlled chronic diseases. This study has developed a helplessness scale specific to chronic conditions, addressing the limitations of previous scales in conceptualizing control constructs. The results suggest that the three-factor CDHS is a psychometrically sound measure of helplessness in individuals with chronic pain.