Biology & Life Sciences

Open Highlights: Seven Glimpses into the Emotional Brain

Published January 3, 2017 Curated Collections

This Open Highlight Collection examines recent research that explores the quantification and manipulation of emotions and probes the interactions between emotions and cognitive processes such as attention and memory. Open Highlights use recent PLOS Biology research articles as keystones around which to nucleate a short synopsis of up to ten related research articles from other PLOS journals and from the wider Open Access corpus.

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10.1371/journal.pbio.2001633

PLOS Biology Seven Glimpses into the Emotional Brain
December 19, 2016 Gabriel Gasque

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10.1371/journal.pbio.2000106

PLOS Biology Decoding Spontaneous Emotional States in the Human Brain
September 14, 2016 Philip A. Kragel, Annchen R. Knodt, Ahmad R. Hariri, Kevin S. LaBar

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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002578

PLOS Biology A Normalization Framework for Emotional Attention
November 21, 2016 Xilin Zhang, Shruti Japee, Zaid Safiullah, Nicole Mlynaryk, Leslie G. Ungerleider
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PLOS Computational Biology The Emotional Gatekeeper: A Computational Model of Attentional Selection and Suppression through the Pathway from the Amygdala to the Inhibitory Thalamic Reticular Nucleus
February 1, 2016 Yohan J. John, Basilis Zikopoulos, Daniel Bullock, Helen Barbas
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10.1038/ncomms11935

Nature Communications Opposite monosynaptic scaling of BLP–vCA1 inputs governs hopefulness- and helplessness-modulated spatial learning and memory
July 14, 2016 Ying Yang, Zhi-Hao Wang, Sen Jin, Di Gao, Nan Liu, Shan-Ping Chen, Sinan Zhang, Qing Liu, Enjie Liu, Xin Wang, Xiao Liang, Pengfei Wei, Xiaoguang Li, Yin Li, Chenyu Yue, Hong-lian Li, Ya-Li Wang, Qun Wang, Dan Ke, Qingguo Xie, Fuqiang Xu, Liping Wang & Jian-Zhi Wang
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PLOS ONE Perception of Emotional Facial Expressions in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) at Behavioural and Brain Metabolic Level
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Nature Communications Ephrin-B3 coordinates timed axon targeting and amygdala spinogenesis for innate fear behaviour
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PLOS Biology Differential Activation Patterns in the Same Brain Region Led to Opposite Emotional States
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