How does neurocircuitry impact emotions and behaviors? How is it created? What can it tell us? Can we change our neurocircuitry? Is neurocircuitry at the heart of emotion and behavior?

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References and suggested reading/listening:

Peer Reviewed Scholarly Publications

• Boyce, W. T., Levitt, P., Martinez, F. D., McEwen, B. S., & Shonkoff, J. P. (2021). Genes, Environments, and Time: The Biology of Adversity and Resilience. Pediatrics, 147(2), e20201651. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-1651

• Braun, K., & Bock, J. (2011). The experience-dependent maturation of prefronto-limbic circuits and the origin of developmental psychopathology: implications for the pathogenesis and therapy of behavioural disorders. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 53(SUPPL.4), 14–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04056.x

• Glimcher, P. W. (2011). Understanding dopamine and reinforcement learning: the dopamine reward prediction error hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Suppl 3, 15647–15654. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1014269108

• Hein, G., Engelmann, J. B., Vollberg, M. C., & Tobler, P. N. (2016). How learning shapes the empathic brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(1), 80–85. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514539112

• McEwen, B. S. (1999). Stress and Hippocampal Plasticity. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 22(1), 105–122. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.neuro.22.1.105

• McEwen, B. S., & Akil, H. (2020). Revisiting the stress concept: Implications for affective disorders. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(1), 12–21. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0733-19.2019

• Montague, P. R., Eagleman, D. M., McClure, S. M., & Berns, G. S. (2006). Reinforcement Learning: A Biological Perspective. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Issue 1, pp. 908–913). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/0470018860.s00373

Media credit (photo/video/audio/animation) Sincere thanks to the following artists

Thumbnail Image - Neurocircuitry – RichardjJones, Storyblocks

Theme Park ride - hartono subagio, Pixabay

Happy child – Shravan K Acharya, Unsplash

Angry child - Photo by Akash Yadav on Unsplash

Neurons firing – istock.com/nmlfd

Neurocircuitry – RichardjJones, Storyblocks

Ambulance and police cars in neighborhood – Dan Jesperson, Storyblocks

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