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Alfredo Pereira, Jr

Neuromodulation, Emotional Feelings and Affective Disorders

Alfredo Pereira, Jr, Fushun Wang /

Abstract Affective disorders such as anxiety, phobia and depression are a leading cause of disabilities worldwide. Monoamine neuromodulators are used to treat most of them, with variable degrees of efficacy. Here, we review and interpret experimental findings about the relation of neuromodulation and emotional feelings, in pursuit of two goals: (a) to improve the conceptualisation […]

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What Affective Neuroscience Means for Science Of Consciousness

Alfredo Pereira, Jr, Claudia Carrara-Augustenborg, Leonardo Ferreira Almada /

Abstract The field of affective neuroscience has emerged from the efforts of Jaak Panksepp in the 1990s and reinforced by the work of, among others, Joseph LeDoux in the 2000s. It is based on the ideas that affective processes are supported by brain structures that appeared earlier in the phylogenetic scale (as the periaqueductal gray

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A Commentary On De Sousa’s “Towards An Integrative Theory Of Consciousness”

Alfredo Pereira, Jr /

Abstract De Sousa’s comprehensive two-part review of a diversity of contemporary approaches to the study of consciousness is highly welcome. He makes us aware of a proliferation of theoretical and empirical approaches targeting a common theme, but diverging in many ways. He skilfully accomplishes a classification of kinds of approach, identification of the main representatives,

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What The Cognitive Neurosciences Mean To Me

Alfredo Pereira, Jr /

Abstract Cognitive Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary area of research that combines measurement of brain activity (mostly by means of neuroimaging) with a simultaneous performance of cognitive tasks by human subjects. These investigations have been successful in the task of connecting the sciences of the brain (Neurosciences) and the sciences of the mind (Cognitive Sciences). Advances

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