Obese individuals react to cues of high caloric food with enhanced craving and brain reward
system activation. In the present study, we analyzed neural correlates of craving regulation …

The present fMRI study investigated whether placebo treatment can change disgust feelings.
Disgust-prone women underwent a retest design where they were presented with …

Although dental phobia is a common mental disorder, which afflicts both men and women,
little is known about sex differences at the neural level. Patients suffering from dental phobia (…

It has repeatedly been reported, that there are differences in grey matter volume (GMV)
between violent offenders and non-violent controls. However, it remains unclear, if structural …

This symptom provocation study on spider phobia investigated sources of late event-related
potentials (ERPs) using sLORETA (standardized low resolution brain electromagnetic …

Background: The neuroanatomic basis of affective processing deficits in Huntington disease
is insufficiently understood. We investigated whether Huntington disease–related deficits in …

The present investigation focused on late event-related potentials (ERPs) and facial
electromyographic (EMG) activity in response to symptom provocation in 8- to 12-year-old spider …

The activation of cortical attention networks during affective picture processing has been
extensively studied, whereas little is known about affective imagery. It is still unclear whether …

Background Extinction learning is proposed to be one key mechanism of action underlying
exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in specific phobia. Beyond that, …

Objective In healthy individuals, the perception of an intense bitter taste decreased the reward
value of visual food cues, as reflected by the reduction of a specific event-related brain …