#affective-neuroscience — Public Fediverse posts

From Heartbeat to Gut Feeling: The Science of Interoception

#Interoception #BrainScience #Neuroscience #PredictiveCoding #AffectiveNeuroscience #Insula #Amygdala #VagusNerve #Homeostasis #MindBodyConnection #Emotion #Cognition

https://youtube.com/shorts/_hCmo19jZhs?feature=share

Spearheaded by the unstoppable Leili Mortazavi with Elnaz Ghasemi and Charlene C. Wu , this culminates > 15 years of work!
The findings imply that some #FMRI findings are more robust than commonly thought (with respect to reliability, validity, and generalizability).
Special thanks to the editors and reviewers at PNAS Nexus and for support from Stanford University 's #Neurochoice Initiative and the #ToyotaResearchInstitute ! (#AffectiveNeuroscience , #Neuroeconomics )

Nature (but not urban or indoor) images reduce subjective and brain responses to painful stimuli ( #sustainability , #AffectiveNeuroscience )...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56870-2

Intracranial electrical stimulation of the #AnteriorInsula decreases risky choice by increasing loss salience, but of the #MedialPrefrontalCortex increases risky choice by decreasing loss salience (causally supporting #AnticipatoryAffect predictions; #Neuroeconomics; #AffectiveNeuroscience):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51822-8

@NicoleCRust
Cannon : Still underrated (#AffectiveNeuroscience)

Catharine Winstanley of #UniversityofBritishColumbia updates the #Stanford Neuroscience crowd on how incidental cues promote risky gambling -- in #rats! (#AnticipatoryAffect , #AffectiveNeuroscience , #Neuroeconomics )

Nice, concise press on our @neurochoice research using neurobehavioral markers of loss anticipation to predict relapse to stimulant use (#addiction , #neuroscience , #affectiveneuroscience ):
https://www.psypost.org/2024/01/unlocking-the-brains-secrets-to-preventing-relapse-scientists-identify-neurobehavioral-markers-220995

Deep bow to Matt Lieberman (@[email protected]) for successfully nurturing _Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience_ to its college years -- check out his characteristically visionary swan song here (even mentions the #MIDTask !, #neuroscience , #affectiveneuroscience):
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/19/1/nsad080/7510584

#Optogenetic stimulation of GABAergic projections from the Ventral Pallidum (VP) to the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) enhances reward reinforcement but not seeking in rats (#Neuroscience , #AffectiveNeuroscience )...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(23)01680-7.pdf

Electrical #stimulation of the human #brain can influence risky choice -- ventral Medial PreFrontal Cortex (#MPFC) stimulation increases risky choice, but Anterior Insula (#AIns) stimulation decreases it (#NeuroEconomics , #affectiveneuroscience , #preprint):
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.07.570630v1

Acetaminophen (used in Tylenol) can increase risky behavior by reducing risk perception (#affectiveneuroscience, #icymi from 2020):
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/15/7/725/5897711

Preprint up on #SCAN site : "Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes" (#CulturalNeuroscience collaboration with Tsai lab including an improved version of the #SIDTask! #AffectiveNeuroscience)
https://academic.oup.com/scan/advance-article/doi/10.1093/scan/nsad068/7410319

@MolemanPeter @NicoleCRust @beneuroscience @debivort @kordinglab @dsmith @tdverstynen @WiringtheBrain
As a scientist, I am trying to get from description to explanation to prediction to control.
My hot take (apparently) is that #AffectiveNeuroscience has made and will continue to make progress.

Sudden insight ("AHA!") experiences, which increase #NAcc activity, also increase risky choice (#FMRI, #affectiveneuroscience)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-44293-2

Solving problems with insight (vs. analysis) increases positive arousal, which increases risk preference (#affectiveneuroscience, #neurofinance)...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546783.2023.2259552

Fitting farewell to #AffectiveNeuroscience visionary Jaak Panksepp by colleague Casey Cromwell (#ICYMI):
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-06770-010.html

Very excited that my review paper on the affective neuroscience of loneliness is published! Lots of questions left to be answered. Stay tuned for more! https://doi.org/10.20900/jpbs.20220011 #Loneliness #AffectiveNeuroscience #Neuroscience #NewPaper

"Aside from the complexity of our thought processes, what arguably makes us human is our perception of the world"

Thanks for highlighting!!
#AffectedBeliefs #AffectiveNeuroscience
#SocialLearning

https://neurosciencecommunity.nature.com/posts/neuroscience-at-communications-biology-complexity-of-the-brain

🚨#Postdoc alert!🚨
MIDUS is hiring! If you are interested in #AffectiveNeuroscience, #Aging, #WellBeing, working with an amazing crew, & have experience with #MRI, come join us! I’m at #SfN2022, message me if you want to talk IRL or virtually! Please repost for visibility https://centerhealthyminds.org/assets/images-general/MIDUSPostdocAd2022_Final.pdf
#Neuroscience #fMRI #Emotion #Psychology #PostDoctoral #Hiring