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The social neuroscience of intergroup relations

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Major depression is associated with impaired processing of emotion in music as well as in facial and vocal stimuli

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Amygdalectomy and responsiveness to novelty in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): Generality and individual consistency of effects.

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Allostasis, action and affect in depression: Insights from the theory of constructed emotion

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Testosterone administration in women increases amygdala responses to fearful and happy faces

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Reframing PTSD for computational psychiatry with the active inference framework

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Disrupted amygdala-prefrontal connectivity during emotion regulation links stress-reactive rumination and adolescent depressive symptoms

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Neuroscience and facial expressions of emotion: the role of amygdala-prefrontal interactions

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Predicting cognitive behavioral therapy response in social anxiety disorder with anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala during emotion regulation

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