Key Scientific Papers

General

Neuropsychology

Nervous System Structure and Function

• A Default Mode Of Brain Function
• The Dynamic Brain: From Spiking Neurons To Neural Masses And Cortical Fields
• Mapping The Structural Core Of Human Cerebral Cortex
• Wandering Minds: The Default Network And Stimulus-Independent Thought
• Whither Vagal Tone

Neuroplasticity

• Changes in Cortical Dopamine D1 Receptor Binding Associated with Cognitive Training
• Changes in Grey Matter Induced by Training
• Internally Generated Reactivation of Single Neurons in Human Hippocampus During Free Recall
• The Labile Nature of Consolidation Theory
• Mechanisms for Selection of Basic Motor Programs – Roles for the Striatum and Pallidum
• Memory Traces Unbound
• Neuroplasticity As A Function Of Second Language Learning: Anatomical Changes In The Human Brain
• The Origin Of Synaptic Neuroplasticity: Crucial Molecules Or A Dynamical Cascade?
• Plasticity In Gray And White: Neuroimaging Changes In Brain Structure During Learning
• Structural Brain Alterations Following 5 Days Of Intervention: Dynamic Aspects Of Neuroplasticity
• Training induces changes in white matter architecture
• Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

Consciousness

• Are There Neural Correlates Of Consciousness?
• Attending To The Present: Mindfulness Meditation Reveals Distinct Neural Modes Of Self-reference
• Biology Of Consciousness
• Brain Sources Of EEG Gamma Frequency During Volitionally Meditation-induced, Altered States Of Consciousness, And Experience Of The Self
• Consciousness And Anesthesia
• A Framework For Consciousness
• Integrated Information In Discrete Dynamical Systems: Motivation And Theoretical Framework
• In The Theatre Of Consciousness: Global Workspace Theory, A Rigorous Scientific Theory Of Consciousness
• Mapping Modalities Of Self-awareness In Mindfulness Practice: A Potential Mechanism For Clarifying Habits Of Mind
• A Neurobehavioral Account For Decentering As The Salve For The Distressed Mind
• Neurophenomenology: Integrating Subjective Experience And Brain Dynamics In The Neuroscience Of Consciousness
• Paying Attention To Consciousness
• Self-awareness, Self-regulation, And Self-transcendence (S-art): A Framework For Understanding The Neurobiological Mechanisms Of Mindfulness
• Six Views Of Embodied Cognition
• Specifying The Self For Cognitive Neuroscience
• The Unbearable Automaticity Of Being 
• What Is The Function Of The Claustrum?

Mindfulness

• The Benefits Of Being Present: Mindfulness And Its Role In Psychological Well-being
• From A State To A Trait: Trajectories Of State Mindfulness In Meditation During Intervention Predict Changes In Trait Mindfulness
• Mechanisms Of Mindfulness
• Meditation, Mindfulness And Cognitive Flexibility
• Mindfulness Defined
• Mindfulness Meditation
• Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition
• Mindfulness Training Alters Emotional Memory Recall Compared To Active Controls: Support For An Emotional Information Processing Model Of Mindfulness
• Mindfulness Training As A Clinical Intervention: A Conceptual And Empirical Review
• Mindfulness Training Modifies Subsystems Of Attention
• Mindfulness: What Is It? Where Did It Come From?
• Moving Beyond Mindfulness: Defining Equanimity As An Outcome Measure In Meditation And Contemplative Research
• The Sisters Of Mindfulness
• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

Meditation

• Attention Regulation And Monitoring In Meditation
• The Dynamics Of Theravāda Insight Meditation
• Focused Attention, Open Monitoring And Automatic Self-transcending: Categories To Organize Meditations From Vedic, Buddhist And Chinese Traditions
• Future Directions In Meditation Research: Recommendations For Expanding The Field Of Contemplative Science
• Meditation: Exploring the Farther Reaches
• Meditation And The Neuroscience Of Consciousness
• The Meeting Of Meditative Disciplines And Western Psychology: A Mutually Enriching Dialogue
• Mindfulness, Bliss, And Beyond: A Meditator’s Handbook
• The Psychological Effects Of Meditation: A Meta-analysis
• Reconstructing And Deconstructing The Self: Cognitive Mechanisms In Meditation Practice
• Short-term Meditation Training Improves Attention And Self-regulation
• Toward A Unifying Taxonomy And Definition For Meditation
• The Varieties Of Contemplative Experience: A Mixed-methods Study Of Meditation-related Challenges In Western Buddhists

Positive Psychology

• Adaptive Mental Mechanisms – Their Role In A Positive Psychology
• The Benefits Of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead To Success?
• Beyond The Hedonic Treadmill – Revising The Adaptation Theory Of Well-being
• Counting Blessings Versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation Of Gratitude And Subjective Well-being In Daily Life
• Cultivating Positive Emotions To Optimize Health And Well-being
• Does Positive Affect Influence Health?
• A Functional Genomic Perspective On Human Well-being
• Genomic Counter-stress Changes Induced By The Relaxation Response
• Is Gratitude A Moral Affect?
• Happiness Unpacked: Positive Emotions Increase Life Satisfaction By Building Resilience
• Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well-being Contributes To Health And Longevity
• Healthy Happiness: Effects Of Happiness On Physical Health And The Consequences For Preventive Health Care
• Maximizing Versus Satisficing: Happiness Is A Matter Of Choice
• Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away: The Dual Effect Of Wealth On Happiness
• The Neural Bases Of Key Competencies Of Emotional Intelligence
• On Happiness And Human Potentials: A Review Of Research On Hedonic And Eudaimonic Well-being
• Physiological Effects Of Free Singing. Pilot Study On A Novel Approach Of Singing Therapy
• Positive Emotion Dispositions Differentially Associated With Big Five Personality And Attachment Style
• Positive Emotion Persistence
• Positive Emotions Broaden And Build
• Positive Psychology Progress Empirical Validation Of Interventions
• Psychological Resources, Positive Illusions, And Health
• Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture Of Sustainable Change
• Resting Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Is Associated With Tonic Positive Emotionality
• Satisfaction With Life Scale
• Subjective Well-being: Three Decades Of Progress
• Well-being Building Bridges Between Buddhism And Western Psychology

Non-Ordinary States

• A Cartography Of The Ecstatic And Meditative States

Effects on the Brain

Religion and Spirituality

• Can Enlightenment Be Traced To Specific Neural Correlates, Cognition, Or Behavior? No, And (A Qualified) Yes
• Neural Correlates Of Religious Experience
• Neural Correlates Of Personalized Spiritual Experiences
• The Neuroscience Of Spirituality
• The Neuroscientific Study Of Spiritual Practices
• Searching For Neurobiological Foundations  Of Faith And Religion
• Studying The Well-trained Mind

General Meditation

• The Beneficial Effects Of Meditation: Contribution Of The Anterior Cingulate And Locus Coeruleus
• Buddha’s Brain: Neuroplasticity And Meditation
• Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Associated With Different Meditation Practices And Perceived Depth Of Meditation
• Cerebral Blood Flow During Meditative Prayer: Preliminary Findings And Methodological Issues
• Decreased Electrophysiological Activity Represents The Conscious State Of Emptiness In Meditation
• EEG Derived Neuronal Dynamics During Meditation: Progress And Challenges
• Effects Of Meditation Experience On Functional Connectivity Of Distributed Brain Networks
• Enhanced Brain Connectivity In Long-term Meditation Practitioners
• The Exploration Of Meditation In The Neuroscience Of Attention And Consciousness
• From Alpha To Gamma: Electrophysiological Correlates Of Meditation-related States Of Consciousness
• Functional Brain Mapping Of The Relaxation Response And Meditation
• Functional Neuroanatomy Of Meditation: A Review And Meta-analysis Of 78 Functional Neuroimaging Investigations
• Global And Regional Alterations Of Hippocampal Anatomy In Long-term Meditation Practitioners
• Is Meditation Associated With Altered Brain Structure? A Systematic Review And Meta-analysis Of Morphometric Neuroimaging In Meditation Practitioners
• Long-term Meditation Is Associated With Increased Gray Matter Density In The Brain Stem
• Mapping Meditative States And Stages With Electrophysiology: Concepts, Classifications, And Methods
• The Measurement Of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow During The Complex Cognitive Task Of Meditation: A Preliminary Spect Study
• Mechanisms Of White Matter Changes Induced By Meditation
• Meditation – Neuroscientific Approaches And Philosophical Implications (Studies In Neuroscience, Consciousness And Spirituality Book 2)
• Meditation Alters Perceptual Rivalry In Tibetan Buddhist Monks
• Meditation And Neurofeedback
• Meditation, Attention And The Brain: Function, Structure And Attentional Performance
• Meditation Effects Within The Hippocampal Complex Revealed By Voxel-based Morphometric And Cytoarchitectonic Probabilistic Mapping
• Meditation Experience Is Associated With Differences In Default Mode Network Activity And Connectivity
• Meditation States And Traits: EEG, ERP, And Neuroimaging Studies
• Mental Training Affects Distribution Of Limited Brain Resources
• Mind Of The Meditator
• Molecular Mechanisms Of Meditation
• The Neural Basis Of The Complex Mental Task Of Meditation: Neurotransmitter And Neurochemical Considerations
• Neurophenomenology And Contemplative Experience
• The Neuropsychological Connection Between Creativity And Meditation
• The Neuroscience Of Meditation: Classification, Phenomenology, Correlates, And Mechanisms
• Non-linear Dynamic Complexity Of The Human EEG During Meditation
• A Phenomenology Of Meditation-induced Light Experiences: Traditional Buddhist And Neurobiological Perspectives
• The Physiology Of Meditation: A Review. A Wakeful Hypometabolic Integrated Response
• Principles And Neurobiological Correlates Of Concentrative, Diffuse, And Insight Meditation
• Review Of The Neural Oscillations Underlying Meditation
• Reduced Functional Connectivity Between Cortical Sources In Five Meditation Traditions Detected With Lagged Coherence Using Eeg Tomography
• Short-term Meditation Increases Network Efficiency Of The Anterior Cingulate Cortex
• Studies Of Advanced Stages Of Meditation In The Tibetan Buddhist And Vedic Traditions: A Comparison Of General Changes
• The Underlying Anatomical Correlates Of Long-term Meditation: Larger Hippocampal And Frontal Volumes Of Gray Matter
• The Unique Brain Anatomy Of Meditation Practitioners: Alterations In Cortical Gyrification
• What Can Neuroscience Learn From Contemplative Practices?
• Zen And The Brain: Toward An Understanding Of Meditation And Consciousness
• Zen-brain Reflections

Focused Attention Meditation

General

• Attentional Modulation Of Primary Interoceptive And Exteroceptive Cortices
• Differential Changes In Self-reported Aspects Of Interoceptive Awareness Through 3 Months Of Contemplative Training
• Focus On The Breath: Brain Decoding Reveals Internal States Of Attention During Meditation
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Of Hippocampal Activation During Silent Mantra Meditation
• Human Anterior And Frontal Midline Theta And Lower Alpha Reflect Emotionally Positive State And Internalized Attention: High-resolution EEG Investigation Of Meditation
• Long-term Meditators Self-induce High-amplitude Gamma Synchrony During Mental Practice
• Meditation Training Increases Brain Efficiency In An Attention Task
• Mind Wandering And Attention During Focused Meditation: A Fine-grained Temporal Analysis Of Fluctuating Cognitive States
• Neural Correlates Of Attentional Expertise In Long-term Meditation Practitioners
• Neural Correlates Of Focused Attention And Cognitive Monitoring In Meditation
• Theta Activity And Meditative States: Spectral Changes During Concentrative Meditation

Movement, Yoga

• First-person Experience And Yoga Research: Studying Neural Correlates Of An Intentional Practice
• Yoga Asana Sessions Increase Brain GABA Levels: A Pilot Study

Compassion, Kindness

• Brain Activation During Compassion Meditation: A Case Study
• Effect Of Compassion Meditation On Neuroendocrine, Innate Immune And Behavioral Responses To Psychosocial Stress
• Loving-kindness Meditation Practice Associated With Longer Telomeres In Women
• The Neural Mediators Of Kindness-based Meditation: A Theoretical Model
• The Neuromagnetic Brain Activation Patterns Of Induced Compassion In Advanced Zen Meditation Practitioners
• The Oxford Handbook Of Compassion Science
• Regulation Of The Neural Circuitry Of Emotion By Compassion Meditation: Effects Of Meditative Expertise
• Specific Reduction In Cortisol Stress Reactivity After Social But Not Attention-based Mental Training
• Structural Plasticity Of The Social Brain: Differential Change After Socio-affective And Cognitive Mental Training

Prayer

• Brain Electrical Activity During Prayer
• A Case Series Study Of The Neurophysiological Effects Of Altered States Of Mind During Intense Islamic Prayer
• Functional Brain Changes During Sema Meditation: Neuronal Correlates And Their Associations With Affective States

Transcendental Meditation

• Autonomic And EEG Patterns During Eyes-closed Rest And Transcendental Meditation (TM) Practice: The Basis For A Neural Model Of TM Practice
• Default Mode Network Activation And Transcendental Meditation Practice: Focused Attention Or Automatic Self-transcending?
• Effects On Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Of Transcendental Meditation
• Electroencephalographic Findings During Mantra Meditation (Transcendental Meditation). A Controlled, Quantitative Study Of Experienced Meditators
• Medial Profrontal Cortex And Anterior Cingulate Cortex In The Generation Of Alpha Activity Induced By Transcendental Meditation: A Magnetoencephalographic Study
• A Self-referential Default Brain State: Patterns Of Coherence, Power, And eLORETA Sources During Eyes-closed Rest And Transcendental Meditation Practice
• Spectral Analysis Of The EEG In Meditation
• Theta Bursts: An EEG Pattern In Normal Subjects Practising The Transcendental Meditation Technique
• Transcendental Experiences During Meditation Practice

Open Awareness Meditation

General

• The Brain On Silent: Mind Wandering, Mindful Awareness, And States Of Mental Tranquility
• An Electroencephalographic Study On The Zen Meditation (Zazen)
• MRI Scanning During Zen Meditation: The Picture Of Enlightenment?
• Open Monitoring Meditation Reduces The Involvement Of Brain Regions Related To Memory Function
• Thinking About Not Thinking: Neural Correlates Of Conceptual Processing During Zen Meditation
• Zazen And Cardiac Variability

Mindfulness Meditation

• Alterations In Resting-state Functional Connectivity Link Mindfulness Meditation With Reduced Interleukin-6: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Assessing Mindfulness And Acceptance Processes In Clients: Illuminating The Theory And Practice Of Change (Chapter 7)
• Brain Regions Involved In Dispositional Mindfulness During Resting State And Their Relation With Well-being
• Dynamics Of Neural Recruitment Surrounding The Spontaneous Arising Of Thoughts In Experienced Mindfulness Practitioners
• EEG Asymmetry And Mindfulness Meditation
• Experienced Mindfulness Meditators Exhibit Higher Parietal-occipital EEG Gamma Activity During NREM Sleep
• Frontal Theta Activity And White Matter Plasticity Following Mindfulness Meditation
• How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms Of Action From A Conceptual And Neural Perspective
• How Similar Are The Changes In Neural Activity Resulting From Mindfulness Practice In Contrast To Spiritual Practice?
• Investigation Of Mindfulness Meditation Practitioners With Voxel-based Morphometry
• Meditation Experience Is Associated With Increased Cortical Thickness
• Mindfulness Meditation Is Related To Long-lasting Changes In Hippocampal Functional Topology During Resting State: A Magnetoencephalography Study
• Mindfulness Meditation Training Alters Cortical Representations Of Interoceptive Attention
• Mindfulness Meditation Training And Executive Control Network Resting State Functional Connectivity: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Mindfulness Practice Leads To Increases In Regional Brain Gray Matter Density
• Mindfulness Starts With The Body: Somatosensory Attention And Top-down Modulation Of Cortical Alpha Rhythms In Mindfulness Meditation
• The Neuroscience Of Mindfulness Meditation
• Psychobiology Of Mindfulness
• Studying The Default Mode And Its Mindfulness-induced Changes Using EEG Functional Connectivity
• A Systematic Review Of The Neurophysiology Of Mindfulness On EEG Oscillations
• A Translational Neuroscience Perspective On Mindfulness Meditation As A Prevention Strategy

Peak, Self-Transcendent, Nondual Experiences

• Brain Activity In Near-death Experiencers During A Meditative State
• Changes In Cortical Activity In Altered States Of Consciousness: The Study Of Meditation By High-resolution EEG
• Duality And Nonduality In Meditation Research
• EEG Manifestations Of Nondual Experiences In Meditators
• Effects Of Self-transcendence On Neural Responses To Persuasive Messages And Health Behavior Change
• Functional Neuroanatomy Of Altered States Of Consciousness: The Transient Hypofrontality Hypothesis
• Neural Correlates Of A Mystical Experience In Carmelite Nuns
• Neural Correlates Of Nondual Awareness In Meditation
• A Neurotheological Perspective On Altered States Of Consciousness
• Psychobiology Of Altered States Of Consciousness
• The Transient Hypofrontality Theory Of Altered States Of Consciousness
• The Varieties Of Self-transcendent Experience

Applications

Health

• Alterations In Brain And Immune Function Produced By Mindfulness Meditation
• Clinical Trials Of Meditation Practices In Health Care: Characteristics And Quality
• Effect Of Kindness-based Meditation On Health And Wellbeing: A Systematic Review And Meta-analysis
• Health Benefits Of Meditation What The Newest Research Shows
• Long-term Mindfulness Training Is Associated With Reliable Differences In Resting Respiration Rate
• A Low‐dose Mindfulness Intervention And Recovery From Work: Effects On Psychological Detachment, Sleep Quality, And Sleep Duration
• Meditation And Health: The Search For Mechanisms Of Action

Pain

• Meditation Reduces Pain-related Neural Activity In The Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Insula, Secondary Somatosensory Cortex, And Thalamus
• Mindfulness Meditation-based Pain Relief Employs Different Neural Mechanisms Than Placebo And Sham Mindfulness Meditation-induced Analgesia
• Pain Attenuation Through Mindfulness Is Associated With Decreased Cognitive Control And Increased Sensory Processing In The Brain

Emotion Regulation

• Deconstructing The Emotion Regulatory Properties Of Mindfulness: An Electrophysiological Investigation
• Experienced Meditators, Cancer Survivors, And Matched Controls Assemble Different Neural Resources To Process Emotion
• Impact Of Meditation On Emotional Processing—a Visual ERP Study
• Mindful Attention To Breath Regulates Emotions Via Increased Amygdala-prefrontal Cortex Connectivity
• Mindfulness And Emotion Regulation – An fMRI Study
• Neural Circuits Of Emotion Regulation: A Comparison Of Mindfulness-based And Cognitive Reappraisal Strategies
• Neural Correlates Of Mindfulness Meditation-related Anxiety Relief

Attention

• Meditation-state Functional Connectivity (msFC): Strengthening Of The Dorsal Attention Network And Beyond
• Regular, Brief Mindfulness Meditation Practice Improves Electrophysiological Markers Of Attentional Control

Related Topics

Systems Theory

• Cognitive Time Scales In A Necker-Zeno Model For Bistable Perception
• Contextual Emergence From Physics To Cognitive Neuroscience

Psychotherapy

• A Neurobiologically Informed Perspective On Psychotherapy
• A New Intellectual Framework For Psychiatry

Nutrition

• Homocysteine-lowering By B Vitamins Slows The Rate Of Accelerated Brain Atrophy In Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Pain and Punishment

• Placebo And Opioid Analgesia – Imaging A Shared Neuronal Network

Pleasure and Reward

• Affective Neuroscience Of Pleasure: Reward In Humans And Animals
• Amygdalar And Prefrontal Pathways To The Lateral Hypothalamus Are Activated By A Learned Cue That Stimulates Eating
• Baby Schema Modulates The Brain Reward System In Nulliparous Women
• Cocaine Cues And Dopamine In Dorsal Striatum: Mechanism Of Craving In Cocaine Addiction
• Decision Utility, The Brain, And Pursuit Of Hedonic Goals
• Dissecting Components Of Reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, And Learning
• Duality Of Salience In Dopamine Neurons
• Dynamic Computation Of Incentive Salience: “Wanting” What Was Never “Liked”
• Hedonic Hot Spot In Nucleus Accumbens Shell: Where Do Mu-opioids Cause Increased Hedonic Impact Of Sweetness?
• Hedonic Hot Spots In The Brain
• Liking’ And ‘wanting’ Food Rewards: Brain Substrates And Roles In Eating Disorders
• Motivational Salience: Amygdala Tuning From Traits, Needs, Values, And Goals
• The Neurobiology Of Pleasure, Reward Processes, Addiction And Their Health Implications
• The Neuroscience Of Pleasure. Focus On “Ventral Pallidum Firing Codes Hedonic Reward: When A Bad Taste Turns Good”
• Pleasures Of The Brain
• The Tempted Brain Eats: Pleasure And Desire Circuits In Obesity And Eating Disorders
• Towards A Functional Neuroanatomy Of Pleasure And Happiness
• Which Cue To “Want?” Central Amygdala Opioid Activation Enhances And Focuses Incentive Salience On A Prepotent Reward Cue

Negativity Bias

• Bad Is Stronger Than Good
• Negative Information Weighs More Heavily On The Brain: The Negativity Bias In Evaluative Categorizations
• Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, And Contagion

Emotion

• Anatomy In Emotion: A Meta-analysis Of Findings From Neuroimaging
• Disruption Of Right Prefrontal Cortex By Low-frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Induces Risk-taking Behavior
• Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study Of Social Exclusion
• Embodying Emotion
• Emotional And Physical Health
• Emotion-induced Changes In Human Medial Prefrontal Cortex: During Anticipatory Anxiety
• The Eureka Hunt: Why Do Good Ideas Come To Us When They Do?
• Neuroimaging Support For Discrete Neural Correlates Of Basic Emotions: A Voxel-based Meta-analysis
• Resilient Individuals Use Positive Emotions To Bounce Back From Negative Emotional Experiences
• Valence, Gender, And Lateralization Of Functional Brain Anatomy In Emotion: A Meta-analysis Of Findings From Neuroimaging
• When Your Gain Is My Pain And Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates Of Envy And Schadenfreude

Cognition

• Integration Of Emotion And Cognition In The Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
• Prefrontal Cortex And Flexible Cognitive Control: Rules Without Symbols
• Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports On Mental Processes

Decision-Making

• Decision Making, The P3, And The Locus Coeruleus-norepinephrine System
• Dissociable Intrinsic Connectivity Networks For Salience Processing And Executive Control
• The Neural Basis Of Economic Decision-making In The Ultimatum Game

Resilience and Coping

• A Hot/Cool-system Analysis Of Delay Of Gratification: Dynamics Of Willpower
• Antecedent-and Response-focused Emotion Regulation: Divergent Consequences For Experience, Expression, And Physiology
• Emotion Regulation In Everyday Life
• Emotion-related Self-regulation And Its Relation To Children’s Maladjustment
• Having A Word With Yourself: Neural Correlates Of Self-criticism And Self-reassurance
• Loss, Trauma, And Human Resilience
• Neural Correlates Of Evaluation Associated With Promotion And Prevention Regulatory Focus
• Protective And Damaging Effects Of Stress Mediators: Central Role Of The Brain
• Risk And Reward Are Processed Differently In Decisions Made Under Stress
• Self-control And Aggression
• Societal Vs. Individual Risk Of Death In The United Kingdom
• Stress Reduction Correlates With Structural Changes In The Amygdala

Gender

• The Gender Similarities Hypothesis

Communication

• Is Communication A Skill? Communication Behaviors And Being In Relationships

Relationships

• Altruistic Helping In Human Infants And Young Chimpanzees
• Biology, Politics, And The Emerging Science Of Human Nature
• The Cognitive Niche: Coevolution Of Intelligence, Sociality, And Language
• Cooperative Behavior Cascades In Human Social Networks
• Cortical Mechanisms Of Human Imitation
• Dopamine And Oxytocin Interactions Underlying Behaviors: Potential Contributions To Behavioral Disorders
• Do You Feel My Pain? Racial Group Membership Modulates Empathic Neural Responses
• Effects Of Intranasal Oxytocin On ‘compassion Focused Imagery
• Emotions Promote Social Interaction By Synchronizing Brain Activity Across Individuals
• Empathy And Consciousness
• Empathy: Its Ultimate And Proximate Bases
• Genes And Social Behavior
• Group Competition, Reproductive Leveling, And The Evolution Of Human Altruism
• Loving-kindness And Compassion Meditation: Potential For Psychological Interventions
• Neural Correlates Of Trust
• A Nonsimultaneous, Extended, Altruistic-donor Chain
• Nonverbal Behavior And The Vertical Dimension Of Social Relations: A Meta-analysis
• Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources
• Orienting In A Defensive World: Mammalian Modifications Of Our Evolutionary Heritage. A Polyvagal Theory
• Oxytocin, Vasopressin, And The Neurogenetics Of Sociality
• Oxytocin And The Neural Mechanisms Regulating Social Cognition And Affiliative Behavior
• The Power Of Mindful Empathy To Heal Toxic Shame
• Relationships As Regulators: A Psychobiologic Perspective On Bereavement
• Self-compassion: Conceptualizations, Correlates, & Interventions
• The Selfish Nature Of Generosity: Harassment And Food Sharing In Primates
• Sex-linked Neuroanatomical Basis Of Human Altruistic Cooperativeness
• Social Groups That Elicit Disgust Are Differentially Processed In mPFC
• Social Isolation Kills, But How And Why?
• Social Transmission Of Face Preferences Among Humans
• Speaker–listener Neural Coupling Underlies Successful Communication
• Viewing Pictures Of A Romantic Partner Reduces Experimental Pain: Involvement Of Neural Reward Systems
• Winners Don’t Punish

Self

• Is Self Special? A Critical Review of Evidence from Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Philosophical Conceptions of the Self: Implications for Cognitive Science
• What Is Self-Specific? Theoretical Investigation and Critical Review of
• Neuroimaging Results

Morality

• An fMRI Investigation Of Emotional Engagement In Moral Judgment
• The Neural Basis Of Human Social Values: Evidence From Functional MRI
• Neural Correlates Of Human Virtue Judgment
• Neural Responses To Taxation And Voluntary Giving Reveal Motives For Charitable Donations
• Red Brain, Blue Brain: Evaluative Processes Differ In Democrats And Republicans

Depression

• Amygdala Volume in Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies
• Phenylethylamine, A Possible Link to the Antidepressant Effects of Exercise?

Drugs

• Alcohol Attributable Burden of Incidence of Cancer in Eight European Countries Based on Results from Prospective Cohort Study
• Drug Abuse: Hedonic Homeostatic Dysregulation
• The Incentive Sensitization Theory of Addiction: Some Current Issues
• The Neurobiology of Addiction an Overview
• Neurobiology of Nicotine Addiction: Implications for Smoking Cessation Treatment
• Neurobiology of Nicotine Dependence
• Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs

Neurotheology

• The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality

Evolution

• Primates, Monks and the Mind
• Tool-Use Training in a Species of Rodent: The Emergence of an Optimal Motor Strategy and Functional Understanding

Non-Human Animals

• The Bonobo Genome Compared with the Chimpanzee and Human Genomes
• Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

The point of practice is to avoid fooling yourself.
—Zen saying