This review and meta-analysis aims at summarizing and integrating the human neuroimaging
studies that report periaqueductal gray (PAG) involvement; 250 original manuscripts on …

Concussion (mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)) is a significant pediatric public health concern.
Despite increased awareness, a comprehensive understanding of the acute and chronic …

The insula, a “cortical hub” buried within the lateral sulcus, is involved in a number of
processes including goal-directed cognition, conscious awareness, autonomic regulation, …

BACKGROUND: Men and women differ in their ability to extinguish fear. Fear extinction
requires the activation of brain regions, including the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) …

Medial prefrontal cortical areas have been hypothesized to underlie altered contextual
processing in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We investigated brain signaling of contextual …

Importance Neurobiological models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) predict
hyperactivity in brain circuits involving the orbitofrontal cortex and the basal ganglia, but it is …

The amygdala, a small deep brain structure involved in behavioral processing through
interactions with other brain regions, has garnered increased attention in recent years in relation …

Placebo may yield beneficial effects that are indistinguishable from those of active medication,
but the factors underlying proneness to respond to placebo are widely unknown. Here, we …

Migraine is twice as common in females as in males, but the mechanisms behind this difference
are still poorly understood. We used high-field magnetic resonance imaging in male and …

This study investigated the effects of anxiety on nonverbal aspects of speech using data
collected in the framework of a large study of social phobia treatment. The speech of social …