Recent Publications: Mood, Empathy, & Developmental Psychopathology
Researchers in the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience doing work on mood disorders, anxiety, empathy and developmental psychopathology include Drew Fox, Jamie Hanson, Aaron Heller, Allison Jahn, Jessica Kirkland, Sharee Light, Antoine Lutz, Stacey Schaefer, and Helen Weng.
Recent publications on this topic include:
- Johnstone, T., van Reekum, C. M., Urry, H. L., Kalin, N. H. & Davidson R. J. (2007). Failure to regulate: Counter-productive recruitment of top-down prefrontal-subcortical circuitry in major depression. Journal of Neuroscience 27: 8877-8884
- Larson, C. L., Nitschke J. B., & Davidson, R. J. (2007). Common and distinct patterns of affective response in dimensions of anxiety and depression. Emotion. Feb;7(1):182-91
- Johnstone, T., van Reekum, C. M., Oakes, T. R. & Davidson, R. J. (2006). The voice of emotion: An FMRI study of neural responses to angry and happy vocal expressions. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 1(3):242-249; doi: 10.1093/scan/nsl027
- Kalin, N. H., Shelton, S. E., Fox, A. S., Oakes, T. R., & Davidson, R. J. (2005). Brain regions associated with the expression and contextual regulation of anxiety in primates. Biological Psychiatry, 58,796-804.
- Fox A. S., Oakes T. R., Shelton S. E., Converse A. K., Davidson R. J., Kalin N. H.(2005). Calling for help is independently modulated by brain systems underlying goal-directed behavior and threat perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 4176-4179.
- Nitschke, J. B., Nelson, E. E., Rusch, B. D., Fox, A. S., Oakes, T. R., & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Orbitofrontal cortex tracks positive mood in mothers viewing pictures of their newborn infants. Neuroimage, 21, 583-592.
- Irwin, W., Anderle, M. J., Abercrombie, H. C., Schaefer, S. M., Kalin, N. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Amygdalar interhemispheric functional connectivity differs between the non-depressed and depressed human brain. Neuroimage, 21, 674-686.
- Pizzagalli, D. A., Oakes, T. R., Fox, A. S., Chung, M. K., Larson, C. L., Abercrombie, H. C., Schaefer, S. M., Benca, R. M., Davidson, R. J. (2004). Functional but not structural subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in melancholia. Molecular Psychiatry, 9, 393-405.