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Open AccessCounterfactual thinking induces different neural patterns of memory modification in anxious individuals
Episodic counterfactual thinking (eCFT) is the process of mentally simulating alternate versions of experiences, which confers new phenomenological properties to the original memory and may be a useful therape...
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Neuroimaging of Fear Extinction
Extinguishing fear and defensive responses to environmental threats when they are no longer warranted is a critical learning ability that can promote healthy self-regulation and, ultimately, reduce susceptibil...
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Open AccessComplex functional brain network properties in anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a disorder characterized by an incapacitating fear of weight gain and by a disturbance in the way the body is experienced, facets that motivate dangerous weight loss behaviors. Multimo...
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Examining the Role of Lateral Parietal Cortex in Emotional Distancing Using TMS
We recently proposed a neurocognitive model of distancing—an emotion regulation tactic—with a focus on the lateral parietal cortex. Although this brain area has been implicated in both cognitive control and se...
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Extinction learning alters the neural representation of conditioned fear
Extinction learning is a primary means by which conditioned associations to threats are controlled and is a model system for emotion dysregulation in anxiety disorders. Recent work has called for new approache...
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Neural correlates of conceptual-level fear generalization in posttraumatic stress disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop when mechanisms for making accurate distinctions about threat relevance have gone awry. Generalization across conceptually related objects has been hypothesized...
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Open AccessThreat-induced anxiety during goal pursuit disrupts amygdala–prefrontal cortex connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder
To investigate how unpredictable threat during goal pursuit impacts fronto-limbic activity and functional connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we compared military veterans with PTSD (n = 25) vs....
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Spatial distancing reduces emotional arousal to reactivated memories
Memories are able to update and adapt with new information about the world after they are reactivated. However, it is unknown whether the labile period following reactivation makes episodic memories more amena...
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Neural mechanisms underlying subsequent memory for personal beliefs:An fMRI study
Many fMRI studies have examined the neural mechanisms supporting emotional memory for stimuli that generate emotion rather automatically (e.g., a picture of a dangerous animal or of appetizing food). However, ...
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Altered Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Basolateral and Centromedial Amygdala Complexes in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The amygdala is a major structure that orchestrates defensive reactions to environmental threats and is implicated in hypervigilance and symptoms of heightened arousal in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ...
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Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory
Amygdala damage in humans reduces the memory-enhancing benefits of emotional arousal on consolidation processes and on attentional focusing during encoding.
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Sex, stress, and fear: Individual differences in conditioned learning
It has long been recognized that humans vary in their conditionability, yet the factors that contribute to individual variation in emotional learning remain to be delineated. The goal of the present study was ...
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Emotional intensity predicts autobiographical memory experience
College students generated autobiographical memories from distinct emotional categories that varied in valence (positive vs. negative) and intensity (high vs. low). They then rated various perceptual, cognitiv...
