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Lesion Studies in Contemporary Neuroscience by Vaidya, Avinash R., Pujara, Maia S., Petrides, Michael, Murray, Elisabeth A., Fellows, Lesley K.

“…Studies of humans with focal brain damage and non-human animals with experimentally induced brain lesions have provided pivotal insights into the neural basis…”
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Subclinical depression severity is associated with distinct patterns of functional connectivity for subregions of anterior cingulate cortex by Philippi, Carissa L, Motzkin, Julian C, Pujara, Maia S, Koenigs, Michael

“…Abstract Depression is a prevalent psychiatric condition characterized by sad mood and anhedonia. Neuroscientific research has consistently identified…”
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Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage Is Associated with Decreased Ventral Striatum Volume and Response to Reward by Pujara, Maia S, Philippi, Carissa L, Motzkin, Julian C, Baskaya, Mustafa K, Koenigs, Michael

“…The ventral striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) are two central nodes of the "reward circuit" of the brain. Human neuroimaging studies have…”
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Altered resting-state functional connectivity in cortical networks in psychopathy by Philippi, Carissa L, Pujara, Maia S, Motzkin, Julian C, Newman, Joseph, Kiehl, Kent A, Koenigs, Michael

“…Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by callous antisocial behavior and criminal recidivism. Here we examine whether psychopathy is associated…”
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Motor System-Dependent Effects of Amygdala and Ventral Striatum Lesions on Explore-Exploit Behaviors by Giarrocco, Franco, Costa, Vincent D, Basile, Benjamin M, Pujara, Maia S, Murray, Elisabeth A, Averbeck, Bruno B

“…Deciding whether to forego immediate rewards or explore new opportunities is a key component of flexible behavior and is critical for the survival of the…”
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Heightened Defensive Responses Following Subtotal Lesions of Macaque Orbitofrontal Cortex by Pujara, Maia S, Rudebeck, Peter H, Ciesinski, Nicole K, Murray, Elisabeth A

“…Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive attention to threat. Several brain areas, including the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), have been associated with…”
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Interpersonal traits of psychopathy linked to reduced integrity of the uncinate fasciculus by Wolf, Richard C., Pujara, Maia S., Motzkin, Julian C., Newman, Joseph P., Kiehl, Kent A., Decety, Jean, Kosson, David S., Koenigs, Michael

“…Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by callous lack of empathy, impulsive antisocial behavior, and criminal recidivism. Here, we performed the…”
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Ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage alters relative risk tolerance for prospective gains and losses by Pujara, Maia S., Wolf, Richard C., Baskaya, Mustafa K., Koenigs, Michael

“…One paradigmatic example of “irrational” bias in human economic decision-making—known as the “reflection effect”—is a tendency to prefer sure amounts over…”
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Effects of Amygdala Lesions on Object-Based Versus Action-Based Learning in Macaques by Taswell, Craig A, Costa, Vincent D, Basile, Benjamin M, Pujara, Maia S, Jones, Breonda, Manem, Nihita, Murray, Elisabeth A, Averbeck, Bruno B

“…Abstract The neural systems that underlie reinforcement learning (RL) allow animals to adapt to changes in their environment. In the present study, we examined…”
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Selective Prefrontal-Amygdala Circuit Interactions Underlie Social and Nonsocial Valuation in Rhesus Macaques by Pujara, Maia S, Ciesinski, Nicole K, Reyelts, Joseph F, Rhodes, Sarah E V, Murray, Elisabeth A

“…Lesion studies in macaques suggest dissociable functions of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and medial frontal cortex (MFC), with OFC being essential for…”
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Impulsive-Antisocial Dimension of Psychopathy Linked to Enlargement and Abnormal Functional Connectivity of the Striatum by Korponay, Cole, Pujara, Maia, Deming, Philip, Philippi, Carissa, Decety, Jean, Kosson, David S, Kiehl, Kent A, Koenigs, Michael

“…Abstract Background Psychopathy is a mental health disorder characterized by callous and impulsive antisocial behavior, and it is associated with a high…”
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A negative relationship between ventral striatal loss anticipation response and impulsivity in borderline personality disorder by Herbort, Maike C, Soch, Joram, Wüstenberg, Torsten, Krauel, Kerstin, Pujara, Maia, Koenigs, Michael, Gallinat, Jürgen, Walter, Henrik, Roepke, Stefan, Schott, Björn H

“…Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently exhibit impulsive behavior, and self-reported impulsivity is typically higher in BPD patients…”
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Mechanisms of Reward Circuit Dysfunction in Psychiatric Illness: Prefrontal–Striatal Interactions by Pujara, Maia, Koenigs, Michael

“…The brain’s “reward circuit” has been widely implicated in the pathophysiology of mental illness. Although there has been significant progress in identifying…”
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Impulsive-antisocial psychopathic traits linked to increased volume and functional connectivity within prefrontal cortex by Korponay, Cole, Pujara, Maia, Deming, Philip, Philippi, Carissa, Decety, Jean, Kosson, David S, Kiehl, Kent A, Koenigs, Michael

“…Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by callous lack of empathy, impulsive antisocial behavior, and criminal recidivism. Studies of brain…”
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Emotion recognition deficits associated with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions are improved by gaze manipulation by Wolf, Richard C., Pujara, Maia, Baskaya, Mustafa K., Koenigs, Michael

“…Facial emotion recognition is a critical aspect of human communication. Since abnormalities in facial emotion recognition are associated with social and…”
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Neural correlates of reward and loss sensitivity in psychopathy by Pujara, Maia, Motzkin, Julian C, Newman, Joseph P, Kiehl, Kent A, Koenigs, Michael

“…Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with callous and impulsive behavior and criminal recidivism. It has long been theorized that psychopaths have…”
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Inherent emotional quality of human speech sounds by Myers-Schulz, Blake, Pujara, Maia, Wolf, Richard C., Koenigs, Michael

“…During much of the past century, it was widely believed that phonemes-the human speech sounds that constitute words-have no inherent semantic meaning, and that…”
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Mechanisms of reward circuit function: Novel insights from neurological lesion patients and psychopathic criminals by Pujara, Maia Soledad

“…The brain’s “reward circuit” has been widely implicated in the pathophysiology of mental illness. Two central nodes in the reward circuit—the ventromedial…”
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