Emotion and the motivational brain

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Emotion, attention, and the startle reflex.

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The emotion probe: Studies of motivation and attention.

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The emotional brain, fear, and the amygdala.

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The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love

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Motivated attention : affect, activation, and action

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The amygdala: Neurobiological aspects of emotion, memory and mental dysfunction

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The Handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment

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Emotion and Motivation

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Technology in mental health care delivery systems

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Brain processes in emotional perception: Motivated attention

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Reward Circuitry Activation by Noxious Thermal Stimuli

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Parallel amygdala and inferotemporal activation reflect emotional intensity and fear relevance

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The architecture of the colour centre in the human visual brain: new results and a review *

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Emotional Perception: Correlation of Functional MRI and Event-Related Potentials

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Perceptual interference supports a non-modular account of face processing

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Probing picture perception: Activation and emotion

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THE SYSTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION TREATMENT OF NEUROSES

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Valence and salience contribute to nucleus accumbens activation

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Emotions

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The anxiety disorder spectrum: Fear imagery, physiological reactivity, and differential diagnosis∗

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BEHAVIOR SYSTEMS AND REINFORCEMENT: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH

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Emotional imagery: Assessing pleasure and arousal in the brain's reward circuitry

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Both Predator and Prey

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Human striatal activation reflects degree of stimulus saliency

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Fearful Imagery in Social Phobia: Generalization, Comorbidity, and Physiological Reactivity

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The Timing of Emotional Discrimination in Human Amygdala and Ventral Visual Cortex

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Re‐entrant projections modulate visual cortex in affective perception: Evidence from Granger causality analysis

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The motivational organization of emotions : affect-reflex connections

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Signal valence in the nucleus accumbens to pain onset and offset

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Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex Contribution to Behavioral and Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Responses to Incentive Cues

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Effects of electrical stimulation of the amygdaloid central nucleus on neocortical arousal in the rabbit.

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