His research interests include: cognitive and emotional substrates of creative thinking; creative thinking process; emotional development and emotional intelligence; psychophysiology of emotions.
In our lab we study attentional and memory biases in the processing of emotional information, neural substrates of emotional dysfunction in depression and anxiety using fMRI, and cognitive and biological mechanisms that underlie the intergenerational transmission of risk for different types of psychopathology.
Despite its high prevalence, societal and personal cost, and untoward effects on cognitive, motor, and emotional abilities, neural substrates of alcoholism's lasting effects on the brain and its functions are only now unfolding.
This suggests that some level of experimental control over participants' gaze patterns may be critical for characterizing the neural substrate of emotional face processing in ASD27.
According to this hypothesis, insular activation provides a neural substrate of emotional feeling states arising from automatic somatosensory responses, making them available to cortical processing and conscious awareness.
Growing evidence indicates that LSAMP is involved in the formation of anatomical substrate for emotional behavior both in rodents and humans.
Brain mechanisms of fear learning are one of the well-documented neural substrates of emotional learning [ 3- 5].
Given that the teleost cerebellum has anatomical and functional homology with the mammalian cerebellum [ 12, 32], teleost fish can be a useful model for studying neuronal substrates of emotional learning involving the cerebellum.
Firstly, since the neural substrates of emotional processing in general are known to be altered in PTSD (Armony, Corbo, Clément, & Brunet, 2005; Phan, Britton, Taylor, Fig, & Liberzon, 2006; Rauch et al., 2000; Shin et al., 2001), any effects on memory retrieval are potentially confounded with effects associated with differential on-line processing of presented traumatic stimuli.
In line with this idea, the later-developed polyvagal theory assumes that the vagus nerve is the key phylogenetic substrate that regulates emotional and social behavior.
