Negative emotional stimuli activate a broad network of brain regions, including the medial
prefrontal (mPFC) and anterior cingulate (ACC) cortices. An early influential view …

Consistent failure over the past few decades to reduce the high prevalence of stress-related
disorders has motivated a search for alternative research strategies. Resilience refers to the …

… Kalisch is the author of more than 50 publications in the area of cognitive neuroscience,
including research on fear and anxiety, emotional learning and memory, conditioning and …

Unconscious motivation in humans is often inferred but rarely demonstrated empirically. We
imaged motivational processes, implemented in a paradigm that varied the amount and …

In fear extinction, an animal learns that a conditioned stimulus (CS) no longer predicts a
noxious stimulus [unconditioned stimulus (UCS)] to which it had previously been associated, …

Social relations between humans critically depend on our affective experiences of others.
Oxytocin enhances prosocial behavior, but its effect on humans' affective experience of others …

… Alternatively, we have recently proposed the R score to examine outcome-defined resilience
in a longitudinal manner (Kalisch et al., 2015). The R score is the quotient of the difference …

The ability to volitionally regulate emotions helps to adapt behavior to changing environmental
demands and can alleviate subjective distress. We show that a cognitive strategy of …

… R is Pearson's R. P values are derived from a one-tailed t-test with n − 2 degrees of freedom.
n can be less than the absolute number of studies in a given sample (9 in sample I, 13 …

… self versus external control of pain correlated highly significantly (r = 0.94; p < 0.001) with the
… a significant impact on the activation of this region when the pain was controllable (r = 0.1). …