Focus


Focus on Emotion and Disorders of Emotion

Individual quality of life depends on the ability to experience emotions appropriately and to regulate them in response to stressful events. In addition, depression and anxiety are a substantial public health burden. This special focus contains four reviews and a perspective from leaders in the field, who discuss how the brain regulates emotions, how this regulation becomes impaired by disorders of emotion and which therapies may be effective in treating these disorders.

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Editorial

Focus on emotion and disorders of emotion

Focus on emotion and disorders of emotion pp1075

doi:10.1038/nn0907-1075


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Perspective

Focus on emotion and disorders of emotion

New insights into BDNF function in depression and anxiety pp1089 - 1093

Keri Martinowich, Husseini Manji & Bai Lu

doi:10.1038/nn1971


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Reviews

Focus on emotion and disorders of emotion

Social learning of fear pp1095 - 1102

Andreas Olsson & Elizabeth A Phelps

doi:10.1038/nn1968



Focus on emotion and disorders of emotion

Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition pp1103 - 1109

Turhan Canli & Klaus-Peter Lesch

doi:10.1038/nn1964


Focus on emotion and disorders of emotion

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression pp1110 - 1115

Amar Sahay & Rene Hen

doi:10.1038/nn1969


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