Emotions - Drug effects
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Effect of acute antidepressant administration on negative affective bias in depressed patients.

13 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Acute administration of an antidepressant increases positive affective processing in healthy volunteers, an effect that may be relevant to the therapeutic actions of these medications. The authors investigated whether this effect is ... Read more...

Substantial similarity in amygdala neuronal activity during conditioned appetitive and aversive emotional arousal.

12 Aug 2009 The amygdala is important for determining the emotional significance of environmental stimuli. However, the degree to which appetitive and aversive stimuli are processed by the same or different neuronal circuits within the amygdala remains unclear. ... Read more...

Effect of risperidone on emotion recognition deficits in antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenia: a short-term follow-up study.

30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: Facial emotion recognition deficits [FERD] have been consistently demonstrated in treated schizophrenia patients. FERD in treatment-naïve patients and the effect of antipsychotics are yet to be explored. AIMS: To examine for FERD in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Emotions - Drug effects'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rapid improvement in affective information processing after acute administration of reboxetine. 29 Sep 2009
• Effect of acute antidepressant administration on negative affective bias in depressed patients. 13 Sep 2009
• Substantial similarity in amygdala neuronal activity during conditioned appetitive and aversive emotional arousal. 12 Aug 2009
• Effect of risperidone on emotion recognition deficits in antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenia: a short-term follow-up study. 30 Jul 2009
• Enhancing influence of intranasal interleukin-6 on slow-wave activity and memory consolidation during sleep. 20 Jun 2009
• Emotional processing in women with anorexia nervosa and in healthy volunteers. 9 Jun 2009
• Power spectrum analysis of ultrasonic vocalization elicited by maternal separation in rat pups. 9 Jun 2009
• Gender differences in acute alcohol effects on self-regulation of arousal in response to emotional and alcohol-related picture cues. 30 May 2009
• Pupillary responses to intranasal trigeminal and olfactory stimulation. 28 May 2009
• Short- and long-term consequences of prenatal exposure to the cannabinoid agonist WIN55,212-2 on rat glutamate transmission and cognitive functions. 10 May 2009
• Potential anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects of salvinorin A, the main active ingredient of Salvia divinorum, in rodents. 3 May 2009
• The effect of trimipramine on dream recall and dream emotions in depressive outpatients. 26 Apr 2009
• Dopamine D1 versus D4 receptors differentially modulate the encoding of salient versus nonsalient emotional information in the medial prefrontal cortex. 13 Apr 2009
• Different effects of tianeptine pretreatment in rats exposed to acute stress and repeated severe stress. 30 Mar 2009
• Acute administration of the cannabinoid CB1 antagonist rimonabant impairs positive affective memory in healthy volunteers. 30 Mar 2009
• Glucocorticoids and the regulation of memory in health and disease. 29 Mar 2009
• Behavioral abnormality and pharmacologic response in social isolation-reared mice. 29 Mar 2009
• Cortisol-induced enhancement of emotional face processing in social phobia depends on symptom severity and motivational context. 26 Mar 2009
• [Effect of cyclopentyladenosine on the orientation, exploratory, and emotional behavior of rats with model brain injury] 27 Feb 2009
• Self-reported memory problems in everyday activities in patients with epilepsy treated with antiepileptic drugs. 10 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Emotions'

Definition: Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.

Descriptor UI: D004644

Alternative terms: Emotions; Emotion; Regret; Regrets; Feelings; Feeling;

Related Mesh Headings: Affective Symptoms;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.470;

Technical Notes: human & animal