Editorial: Stress Induced Neural Changes in Emotional Disorders

Editorial: “The cognitive, emotional and neural correlates of creativity”

Creativity is at the roots of extraordinary achievements in the arts and sciences, and enables individuals and their groups to adapt flexibly to changing circumstances, to manage complex social relations, and to survive and prosper through social, technological, and medical innovations. The ability to generate novel and potentially useful ideas and problem solutions (viz., creativity) is a key ...

Corticotrophin releasing factor-induced synaptic plasticity in the amygdala translates stress into emotional disorders.

The amygdala is involved in the associative processes for both appetitive and aversive emotions, and its function is modulated by stress hormones. The neuropeptide corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) is released during stress and has been linked to many stress-related behavioral, autonomic, and endocrine responses. In the present study, nonanxiety-inducing doses of a potent CRF type 1 and 2 r...

Guest Editorial Disruptive behavior disorders – Disorders of social , emotional and moral development ?

Neural circuitry of emotional face processing in autism spectrum disorders.

BACKGROUND Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with severe impairments in social functioning. Because faces provide nonverbal cues that support social interactions, many studies of ASD have examined neural structures that process faces, including the amygdala, ventromedial prefrontal cortex and superior and middle temporal gyri. However, increases or decreases in activation are often...

Editorial: Emotional rescue

This issue completes the third volume of the Journal of Consumer Behaviour. Among subscribers, authors, reviewers and readers, the Journal has gone from strength to strength over the last three years. As confirmation of this, the Journal will, from issue 4/1, be published bi-monthly. This is great news for us and gratitude is extended to all who have supported, praised, contributed to and read ...