Objective: The underlying changes in biological processes that are associated with reported
changes in mental and physical health in response to meditation have not been …

The authors present an overview of the neural bases of emotion. They underscore the role
of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala in 2 broad approach-and withdrawal-related …

The editors of this... volume have selected 24 leading emotion theorists and asked them to
address 12 fundamental questions about the subject of emotion.... Each chapter addresses a …

Despite the vast literature that has implicated asymmetric activation of the prefrontal cortex
in approach-withdrawal motivation and emotion, no published reports have directly explored …

Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory
training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well-being and …

Recently, there has been a convergence in lesion and neuroimaging data in the identification
of circuits underlying positive and negative emotion in the human brain. Emphasis is …

A long-standing problem in stress research has been that individuals' reports of their
tendencies to become anxious are often inconsistent with relevant behavioral and physiological …

Research on cerebral asymmetry and the experience and expression of emotion is reviewed.
The studies described use electrophysiological procedures to make inferences about …

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It has been argued that emotion, pain and cognitive control are functionally segregated in
distinct subdivisions of the cingulate cortex. However, recent observations encourage a …