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A dimensional approach to determine common and specific neurofunctional markers for depression and social anxiety during emotional face processing

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A functional polymorphism of the OXTR gene is associated with autistic traits in Caucasian and Asian populations.

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A longitudinal study of self-reported psychopathology in early ecstasy and amphetamine users

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

A prospective study of learning, memory, and executive function in new MDMA users

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Advances in the field of intranasal oxytocin research: lessons learned and future directions for clinical research

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Altered orbitofrontal activity and dorsal striatal connectivity during emotion processing in dependent marijuana users after 28 days of abstinence

scientific article published on 2 December 2017

Altered parahippocampal functioning in cannabis users is related to the frequency of use.

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

Altered striatal reward processing in abstinent dependent cannabis users: Social context matters

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

An Affective Neuroscience Framework for the Molecular Study of Internet Addiction

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Anxiety-impulsivity subtypes in adolescent internalizing disorder are characterized by distinguishable neurodevelopmental, neurocognitive and clinical trajectory signatures

Can pharmacological enhancement of the placebo effect be a novel therapy for working memory impairments?

scholarly article published 17 September 2018

Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity?

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Common and Dissociable Contributions of Alexithymia and Autism to Domain-Specific Interoceptive Dysregulations: A Dimensional Neuroimaging Approach

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Common and dissociable contributions of alexithymia and autism to domain-specific interoceptive dysregulations - a dimensional neuroimaging approach

scholarly article published 2 October 2018

Common and separable neural alterations in substance use disorders: A coordinate-based meta-analyses of functional neuroimaging studies in humans

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Comparison of three different eye-tracking tasks for distinguishing autistic from typically developing children and autistic symptom severity

Convergent cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence for gaming-cue specific posterior parietal dysregulations in early stages of internet gaming disorder

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Correspondent Functional Topography of the Human Left Inferior Parietal Lobule at Rest and Under Task Revealed Using Resting-State fMRI and Coactivation Based Parcellation

scientific article published on 03 January 2017

Cortical thinning in amphetamine-type stimulant users

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

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Cue-reactivity in the ventral striatum characterizes heavy cannabis use, whereas reactivity in the dorsal striatum mediates dependent use: Supplemental

Deciphering the neural signature of conversion blindness

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Decision-making in polydrug amphetamine-type stimulant users: an fMRI study.

scientific article published on 07 February 2013

Depression is Associated with Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity Among College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differs by Activity Level, Gender and Gender Role

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Distinct striatum pathways connected to salience network predict symptoms improvement and resilient functioning in schizophrenia following risperidone monotherapy

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Does Growing up in Urban Compared to Rural Areas Shape Primary Emotional Traits?

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Effect of specific psychotherapy for chronic depression on neural responses to emotional faces

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Effects of ketamine on brain function during smooth pursuit eye movements

scientific article published on 25 June 2016

Electroconvulsive therapy selectively enhanced feedforward connectivity from fusiform face area to amygdala in major depressive disorder

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Emotion regulation deficits in regular marijuana users

scientific article published on 31 May 2017

Emotional Dysregulation in Psychogenic Voice Loss

Empathic pain evoked by sensory and emotional-communicative cues share common and process-specific neural representation

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Fear processing and social networking in the absence of a functional amygdala.

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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy-informed neurofeedback: regional-specific modulation of lateral orbitofrontal activation and cognitive flexibility

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

General and emotion-specific neural effects of ketamine during emotional memory formation

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Genotype and dose-frequency determine acute and chronic effects of oxytocin on amygdala fear responses in humans: therapeutic implications

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Goal or gold: overlapping reward processes in soccer players upon scoring and winning money

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Higher levels of (Internet) Gaming Disorder symptoms according to the WHO and APA frameworks associate with lower striatal volume

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Human extinction learning is accelerated by an angiotensin antagonist via ventromedial prefrontal cortex and its connections with basolateral amygdala

Increased gray matter density in patients with schizophrenia and cannabis use: a voxel-based morphometric study using DARTEL.

scientific article published on 3 April 2012

Individual differences in tendencies to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and emotionality: empirical evidence in young healthy adults from Germany and China

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Inferior frontal gyrus preserves working memory and emotional learning under conditions of impaired noradrenergic signaling

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Insufficient task-outcome association promotes task procrastination through a decrease of hippocampal-striatal interaction

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

Interactions between specific parameters of MDMA use and cognitive and psychopathological measures

scientific article published on 13 December 2014

Interactions between specific parameters of cannabis use and verbal memory.

scientific article published on 14 April 2010

Internet Communication Disorder and the structure of the human brain: initial insights on WeChat addiction.

scientific article published in February 2018

Intrinsic connectivity of the prefrontal cortex and striato-limbic system respectively differentiate major depressive from generalized anxiety disorder

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Intrinsic, dynamic and effective connectivity among large-scale brain networks modulated by oxytocin

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

Learning, Memory, and Executive Function in New MDMA Users: A 2-Year Follow-Up Study

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Medial prefrontal gray matter volume reductions in users of amphetamine-type stimulants revealed by combined tract-based spatial statistics and voxel-based morphometry

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Memory-related hippocampal functioning in ecstasy and amphetamine users: a prospective fMRI study

scientific article published on 23 September 2012

Mirroring fear in the absence of a functional amygdala

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Modafinil enhances cognitive, but not emotional conflict processing via enhanced inferior frontal gyrus activation and its communication with the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Neural systems and hormones mediating attraction to infant and child faces

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Neural, electrophysiological and anatomical basis of brain-network variability and its characteristic changes in mental disorders

scientific article published on 14 July 2016

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors contribute to learning-induced metaplasticity in the hippocampus

scientific article published on 7 March 2013

Orbitofrontal gray matter deficits as marker of Internet gaming disorder: converging evidence from a cross-sectional and prospective longitudinal design.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Overview of Human Oxytocin Research

scientific article published on 02 September 2017

Oxytocin Differentially Modulates Amygdala Responses during Top-Down and Bottom-Up Aversive Anticipation

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Oxytocin Enhancement of the Placebo Effect May Be a Novel Therapy for Working Memory Impairments

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Oxytocin Facilitates Pavlovian Fear Learning in Males

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Oxytocin Facilitates Self-Serving Rather Than Altruistic Tendencies in Competitive Social Interactions Via Orbitofrontal Cortex

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Oxytocin Modulates Attention Switching Between Interoceptive Signals and External Social Cues

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Oxytocin amplifies sex differences in human mate choice

Oxytocin differentially alters resting state functional connectivity between amygdala subregions and emotional control networks: Inverse correlation with depressive traits.

scientific article published in February 2017

Oxytocin enhances attractiveness of unfamiliar female faces independent of the dopamine reward system

scientific article published on 5 October 2013

Oxytocin enhances brain reward system responses in men viewing the face of their female partner

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Oxytocin facilitates protective responses to aversive social stimuli in males

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Oxytocin facilitates the extinction of conditioned fear in humans

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Oxytocin facilitation of acceptance of social advice is dependent upon the perceived trustworthiness of individual advisors

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Oxytocin reduces top-down control of attention by increasing bottom-up attention allocation to social but not non-social stimuli

Oxytocin selectively facilitates learning with social feedback and increases activity and functional connectivity in emotional memory and reward processing regions

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Oxytocin, the peptide that bonds the sexes also divides them

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Putamen volume predicts real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success across paradigms and neurofeedback target regions

scientific article published on 05 January 2021

Reply to the Letter to the Editor: "Lack of Evidence for the Effect of Oxytocin on Placebo Analgesia and Nocebo Hyperalgesia"

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Serotonin and early life stress interact to shape brain architecture and anxious avoidant behavior - a TPH2 imaging genetics approach

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Sex-dependent neural effect of oxytocin during subliminal processing of negative emotion faces

scientific article published on 3 September 2017

Shifted balance of dorsal versus ventral striatal communication with frontal reward and regulatory regions in cannabis-dependent males

article by Feng Zhou et al published 12 September 2018 in Human Brain Mapping

Smaller amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex predict escalating stimulant use.

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Stochastic resonance therapy induces increased movement related caudate nucleus activity

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

The Effect of Oxytocin on Third-Party Altruistic Decisions in Unfair Situations: An fMRI Study

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

The impact of early-onset cannabis use on functional brain correlates of working memory

scientific article published on 2 April 2010

The mirror neuron system compensates for amygdala dysfunction - associated social deficits in individuals with higher autistic traits

scientific article published in 2022

The role of oxytocin on self-serving lying

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Towards biomarker-based clinical subtyping of Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Trauma Disclosure Moderates the Effects of Oxytocin on Intrusions and Neural Responses to Fear

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Voluntary control of anterior insula and its functional connections is feedback-independent and increases pain empathy

scientific article published on 17 February 2016