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  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,199 Views
47 Pages

Review of EEG Affective Recognition with a Neuroscience Perspective

  • Rosary Yuting Lim,
  • Wai-Cheong Lincoln Lew and
  • Kai Keng Ang

Emotions are a series of subconscious, fleeting, and sometimes elusive manifestations of the human innate system. They play crucial roles in everyday life—influencing the way we evaluate ourselves, our surroundings, and how we interact with our...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,788 Views
18 Pages

Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale (ANPS) in Children with Internalizing Disorders

  • Simone Cupellaro,
  • Valentina Colonnello,
  • Ugo Sabatello,
  • Chiara Ubertini and
  • Carla Sogos

Background/Objectives: This study of endophenotypes represents a new research approach to overcome the limits of a syndromic model to psychiatric diseases. The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS, 31) is a self-report questionnaire used t...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,659 Views
17 Pages

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the interrelationships of Young’s early maladaptive schemas with indicators of specific neural emotional systems conceptualized in Panksepp’s theory in a group of people suffering from depressive d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,265 Views
94 Pages

1 November 2025

Background: Electroencephalography (EEG) offers millisecond-precision measurement of neural oscillations underlying human cognition and emotion. Despite extensive research, systematic frameworks mapping EEG metrics to psychological constructs remain...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,189 Views
22 Pages

Extended Reality for the Clinical, Affective, and Social Neurosciences

  • Thomas D. Parsons,
  • Andrea Gaggioli and
  • Giuseppe Riva

30 November 2020

Brain science research often involves the use of low-dimensional tools and stimuli that lack several of the potentially valuable features of everyday activities and interactions. Although this research has provided important information about cogniti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,773 Views
11 Pages

Anxiety Regulation: From Affective Neuroscience to Clinical Practice

  • Alessandro Grecucci,
  • Hüseyin Sığırcı,
  • Gaia Lapomarda,
  • Letizia Amodeo,
  • Irene Messina and
  • Jon Frederickson

12 November 2020

According to psychoanalysis, anxiety signals a threat whenever a forbidden feeling emerges. Anxiety triggers defenses and maladaptive behaviors, thus leading to clinical problems. For these reasons, anxiety regulation is a core aspect of psychodynami...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
13,397 Views
4 Pages

In the realm of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, researchers employ a variety of methods to address theoretical and practical questions that focus on the intricate interplay between social perception, cognition, and emotion across diverse...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
43,403 Views
12 Pages

A Biopsychosocial Approach to Grief, Depression, and the Role of Emotional Regulation

  • Cristina Peña-Vargas,
  • Guillermo Armaiz-Peña and
  • Eida Castro-Figueroa

4 August 2021

According to the field of affective neuroscience, grief has been identified as one of the seven primary emotions necessary for human survival. However, maladaptive grief could cause significant impairment in an individual’s life, leading to psychopat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,258 Views
27 Pages

Synthetic Emotions and the Illusion of Measurement: A Conceptual Review and Critique of Measurement Paradigms in Affective Science

  • Dana Rad,
  • Corina Costache-Colareza,
  • Ruxandra-Victoria Paraschiv and
  • Liviu Gavrila-Ardelean

23 August 2025

The scientific study of emotion remains fraught with conceptual ambiguity, methodological limitations, and epistemological blind spots. This theoretical paper argues that existing paradigms frequently capture synthetic rather than natural emotional s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
761 Views
24 Pages

Affective Neuroscience, Moral Psychology, and Emotions in 2 Cor 7:5–16

  • Marcin Kowalski,
  • Mariusz G. Karbowski and
  • Julia Gorbaniuk

12 December 2025

The authors examine the emotions contained in 2 Cor 7:5–16. They refer to the nativist approach, in particular to Jaak Panksepp’s theory of primary emotions and Jonathan Haidt’s five foundations of morality. The emotions of Paul, Ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
18,211 Views
12 Pages

31 March 2022

Affective neuroscience studies have demonstrated the impact of social interactions on sleep quality. In humans, trait-like social behaviors, such as attachment, are related to sleep brain activity patterns. Our aim was to investigate associations bet...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,788 Views
10 Pages

Losses Related to Breast Cancer Diagnosis: The Impact on Grief and Depression Symptomatology Within the Context of Hispanic/Latina Patients with Breast Cancer

  • Cristina Peña-Vargas,
  • Paola del Río-Rodriguez,
  • Lianel P. Rosario,
  • Guillermo Laporte-Estela,
  • Normarie Torres-Blasco,
  • Zindie Rodriguez-Castro,
  • Nelmit Tollinchi-Natali,
  • Willa I. Guerrero,
  • Patsy Torres and
  • Eida M. Castro-Figueroa
  • + 1 author

Objective: The present study explored the association between the losses incurred due to breast cancer diagnosis, symptoms of depression, PANIC/GRIEF, and contextual factors within the context of Hispanic/Latina (H/L) patients diagnosed with breast c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
223 Citations
42,052 Views
29 Pages

17 April 2012

It is commonly believed that consciousness is a higher brain function. Here we consider the likelihood, based on abundant neuroevolutionary data that lower brain affective phenomenal experiences provide the “energy” for the developmental construction...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,603 Views
9 Pages

28 September 2025

The central argument of this editorial is that EEG and ERPs offer an unparalleled temporal resolution, enabling the dissection of neural events in the millisecond range [...]

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
14,602 Views
73 Pages

20 February 2025

Background/Objectives: This systematic review presents how neural and emotional networks are integrated into EEG-based emotion recognition, bridging the gap between cognitive neuroscience and practical applications. Methods: Following PRISMA, 64 stud...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,123 Views
7 Pages

28 October 2021

The interrelation between motor and emotional processes has been a recurrent question since several decades in the scientific literature. An interesting experimental technique to explore this question is posturography which assess the modulation of h...

  • Feature Paper
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
81 Citations
11,540 Views
16 Pages

13 July 2019

The focus of this opinion is on the key features of sentience in animals which can experience different states of welfare, encapsulated by the new term ‘welfare-aligned sentience’. This term is intended to exclude potential forms of sentience that do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,577 Views
20 Pages

Exploring Biomarkers of Mental Flexibility in Healthy Aging: A Computational Psychometric Study

  • Francesca Borghesi,
  • Alice Chirico,
  • Elisa Pedroli,
  • Giuseppina Elena Cipriani,
  • Nicola Canessa,
  • Martina Amanzio and
  • Pietro Cipresso

6 August 2023

Mental flexibility (MF) has long been defined as cognitive flexibility. Specifically, it has been mainly studied within the executive functions domain. However, there has recently been increased attention towards its affective and physiological aspec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,986 Views
24 Pages

Music listening or playing can create a feeling of connection with other listeners or performers, with distinctive levels of immersion and absorption. A major question, in this regard, is whether the music does have an ontological status, as an end i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,666 Views
13 Pages

12 April 2024

Spontaneous, unwilled subjective imagery and symbols (including dreams) often emerge in psychotherapy that can appear baffling and confound interpretation. Early psychoanalytic theories seemed to diverge as often as they agreed on the meaning of such...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,125 Views
12 Pages

Posturography Approaches: An Insightful Window to Explore the Role of the Brain in Socio-Affective Processes

  • Harold Mouras,
  • Alexandre Vonesch,
  • Karina Lebel,
  • Guillaume Léonard and
  • Thierry Lelard

12 November 2023

A significant amount of research has highlighted the importance of a motor component in the brain’s processing of emotional, motivational and social information. Posturography has emerged as an interesting way to assess motor correlates associa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,075 Views
14 Pages

Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception

  • Mbarka Akounach,
  • Thierry Lelard,
  • Anaïs Beaumont,
  • Sylvie Granon and
  • Harold Mouras

In our contemporary societies, environmental issues are more and more important. An increasing number of studies explore the biological processes involved in environment perception and in particular try to highlight the mechanisms underlying the perc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,238 Views
14 Pages

Neuroscience Literacy and Academic Outcomes: Insights from a University Student Population

  • Abeer F. Almarzouki,
  • Arzan I. Alqahtani,
  • Jumana K. Baessa,
  • Dhuha K. Badaood,
  • Rwdyn R. Nujoom,
  • Raneem W. Malibari,
  • Elaf M. Aljared and
  • Reema S. Alghamdi

Background/Objectives: There is growing interest in neuroscience-informed education, as well as neuroscience-derived strategies that maximise learning. Studies on neuroscience literacy and neuromyths, i.e., understandings or misconceptions about the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,959 Views
11 Pages

Effects of Pain Neuroscience Education and Physiotherapy on Chronic Low Back Pain, Fear of Movement and Functional Status: A Randomised Pilot Study

  • Eglė Lendraitienė,
  • Barbora Styraitė,
  • Rasa Šakalienė,
  • Gabija Misytė and
  • Indre Bileviciute-Ljungar

3 April 2024

Background: Chronic non-specific low back pain is a non-harmous condition often found in the general population. It is one of the most significant disabilities and needs different treatment modalities. This study investigates the effects of pain neur...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,489 Views
4 Pages

28 December 2019

Virtual Reality (VR) has a variety of applications in various fields of study, including social work and human performance training. Useful information regarding the neurobiological underpinnings of social cognition (SC) has been obtained from the us...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,361 Views
17 Pages

Brain-Directed Care: Why Neuroscience Principles Direct PICU Management beyond the ABCs

  • Debbie A. Long,
  • Michaela Waak,
  • Nicola N. Doherty and
  • Belinda L. Dow

9 December 2022

Major advances in pediatric intensive care (PICU) have led to increased child survival. However, the long-term outcomes among these children following PICU discharge are a concern. Most children admitted to PICU are under five years of age, and the s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
12,901 Views
24 Pages

10 January 2024

Background: Dynamic technological development and its enormous impact on modern societies are posing new challenges for 21st-century neuroscience. A special place is occupied by technologies based on virtual reality (VR). VR tools have already played...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,877 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Emotion and Recall in COVID-19 Advertisements: A Neuroscientific Study

  • Miguel Baños-González,
  • Mario Rajas-Fernández and
  • Dolores Lucía Sutil-Martín

In this research, neuroscience techniques are applied to the field of marketing in the analysis of advertisements that include the COVID-19 pandemic in their stories. A study of emotion and memory in these audiovisual productions is carried out as tw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,273 Views
10 Pages

Immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have emerged as powerful tools in cultural heritage education and preservation. Building on prior work that demonstrated the effectiveness of gamified XR applications in e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,500 Views
18 Pages

Decoding N400m Evoked Component: A Tutorial on Multivariate Pattern Analysis for OP-MEG Data

  • Huanqi Wu,
  • Ruonan Wang,
  • Yuyu Ma,
  • Xiaoyu Liang,
  • Changzeng Liu,
  • Dexin Yu,
  • Nan An and
  • Xiaolin Ning

Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has played an extensive role in interpreting brain activity, which has been applied in studies with modalities such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and Electroencephal...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,593 Views
12 Pages

The Neuroprotective Effects of Melatonin: Possible Role in the Pathophysiology of Neuropsychiatric Disease

  • Jung Goo Lee,
  • Young Sup Woo,
  • Sung Woo Park,
  • Dae-Hyun Seog,
  • Mi Kyoung Seo and
  • Won-Myong Bahk

21 October 2019

Melatonin is a hormone that is secreted by the pineal gland. To date, melatonin is known to regulate the sleep cycle by controlling the circadian rhythm. However, recent advances in neuroscience and molecular biology have led to the discovery of new...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,601 Views
13 Pages

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint condition. It affects more than 300 million people worldwide, who suffer from pain and physical disability. Objective: To determine the results of cognitive educational interventions for pain management an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
19,632 Views
28 Pages

15 March 2013

Considerable evidence links many neuropsychiatric, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders with multiple complex interactions between genetics and environmental factors such as nutrition. Mental health problems, autism, eating disorders, A...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,067 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2025

The present manuscript proposes an integrative clinical-theoretical framework that explores neurodivergence through the lens of attachment theory, aiming to enrich our understanding of atypical developmental trajectories. Drawing from both classical...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,606 Views
24 Pages

24 November 2022

We propose an overview of the molecular cues and their intracellular signaling involved in the crosstalk between cancer and the nervous system. While “cancer neuroscience” as a field is still in its infancy, the relation between cancer an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,926 Views
17 Pages

28 June 2022

General anesthesia has been widely utilized since the 1840s, but its underlying neural circuits remain to be completely understood. Since both general anesthesia and sleep are reversible losses of consciousness, studies on the neural-circuit mechanis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,639 Views
24 Pages

28 September 2021

Human memory systems are imperfect recording devices that are affected by age and disease, but recent findings suggest that the functionality of these systems may be modifiable through interventions using non-invasive brain stimulation such as repeti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,244 Views
22 Pages

13 July 2022

The point of purchase is considered to be one of the few communication channels that is not yet saturated, and it has a relatively large potential for the future. A pleasant smell is also part of the shopping atmosphere. How smell affects customer be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
10,595 Views
20 Pages

17 October 2022

Twenty of the last one hundred years of vitamin D research have involved investigations of the brain as a target organ for this hormone. Our group was one of the first to investigate brain outcomes resulting from primarily restricting dietary vitamin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,552 Views
17 Pages

Consumer Neuroscience as a Tool to Monitor the Impact of Aromas on Consumer Emotions When Buying Food

  • Jakub Berčík,
  • Katarína Neomániová,
  • Jana Gálová and
  • Anna Mravcová

21 July 2021

Building a unique USP sales argument (unique selling proposition) through various forms of in-store communication comes to the fore in a challenging competitive environment. Scent as a means to influence the purchase of goods or services has a long h...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
22,141 Views
19 Pages

The Devastating Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Memory: Lessons from Rodent Models

  • Pinqiu Chen,
  • Weikang Ban,
  • Wenyan Wang,
  • Yuyang You and
  • Zhihong Yang

In this narrative review article, we discuss the role of sleep deprivation (SD) in memory processing in rodent models. Numerous studies have examined the effects of SD on memory, with the majority showing that sleep disorders negatively affect memory...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,313 Views
44 Pages

2 June 2021

The author presents his perspective on the character of science, development, and handedness and relates these to his investigations of the early development of handedness. After presenting some ideas on what hemispheric specialization of function mi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
10,326 Views
18 Pages

Interactions Between Epilepsy and Plasticity

  • José J. Jarero-Basulto,
  • Yadira Gasca-Martínez,
  • Martha C. Rivera-Cervantes,
  • Mónica E. Ureña-Guerrero,
  • Alfredo I. Feria-Velasco and
  • Carlos Beas-Zarate

7 February 2018

Undoubtedly, one of the most interesting topics in the field of neuroscience is the ability of the central nervous system to respond to different stimuli (normal or pathological) by modifying its structure and function, either transiently or permanen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,894 Views
32 Pages

Music has strong emotional powers. How are we to understand affective responses to music? What does music teach us about emotions? Why are musical emotions important? Despite the rich literature in philosophy and the empirical sciences, particularly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
15,307 Views
23 Pages

23 March 2015

Capitalizing from neuroscience knowledge on how individuals are affected by the sound environment, we propose to adopt a cybernetic and ecological point of view on the musical aesthetic experience, which includes subprocesses, such as feature extract...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,575 Views
16 Pages

Bridging the Gap: Missing Data Imputation Methods and Their Effect on Dementia Classification Performance

  • Federica Aracri,
  • Maria Giovanna Bianco,
  • Andrea Quattrone and
  • Alessia Sarica

Background/Objectives: Missing data is a common challenge in neuroscience and neuroimaging studies, especially in the context of neurodegenerative disorders such as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Inadequate handli...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,645 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2024

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) has become a hot topic in neuroscience research in recent years, especially in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, where its role in neurological diseases has received widespread attention. ACE2, as a m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,402 Views
18 Pages

4 February 2021

The Nile Delta has been suffering from complex environmental hazards caused by climate change and human-induced evolvements, which have led to adverse impacts on national food security. An unfavourable nexus between solid waste management issues and...

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