2016
An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind's eye”
Di Simplicio M, Renner F, Blackwell S, Mitchell H, Stratford H, Watson P, Myers N, Nobre A, Lau‐Zhu A, Holmes E. An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind's eye”. Bipolar Disorders 2016, 18: 669-683. PMID: 27995690, PMCID: PMC5299482, DOI: 10.1111/bdi.12453.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-clinical controlsEmotional mental imageryBipolar disorderMental imageryAnxiety disordersExperimental tasksAssociation with affective labilityCognitive stagesMeasures of mental imageryPicture-word taskClinical control groupPremorbid IQTransdiagnostic markerAffective labilityEmotional psychopathologyProspective imageryUnipolar depressionDepressed individualsInterpretation biasNon-emotionalEmotional difficultiesImagery differencesImagery useBD groupSelf-involvement
2014
‘Can you look me in the face?’ Short-term SSRI Administration Reverts Avoidant Ocular Face Exploration in Subjects at Risk for Psychopathology
Di Simplicio M, Doallo S, Costoloni G, Rohenkohl G, Nobre A, Harmer C. ‘Can you look me in the face?’ Short-term SSRI Administration Reverts Avoidant Ocular Face Exploration in Subjects at Risk for Psychopathology. Neuropsychopharmacology 2014, 39: 3059-3066. PMID: 25035080, PMCID: PMC4229577, DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.159.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAnalysis of VarianceAntisocial Personality DisorderCitalopramDiscrimination, PsychologicalDouble-Blind MethodEye MovementsFacial ExpressionFemaleHumansMalePersonality InventoryPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesRecognition, PsychologySelective Serotonin Reuptake InhibitorsStatistics as TopicSurveys and QuestionnairesVisual Analog ScaleYoung AdultConceptsFacial stimuliOcular explorationStudy 2Study 1Serotonin reuptake inhibitor citalopramRecognition of positive emotionsReduced eye gazeEysenck Personality QuestionnaireReuptake inhibitor citalopramLow neuroticism scoresNegative facial expressionsEye gaze movementsDouble-blind designHappy facesSSRI administrationFear expressionHigh neuroticismInhibitor citalopramPersonality QuestionnaireNeuroticism scoresEmotional stimuliInterpersonal difficultiesFace stimuliSocial stimuliFace explorationOscillatory Brain State Predicts Variability in Working Memory
Myers N, Stokes M, Walther L, Nobre A. Oscillatory Brain State Predicts Variability in Working Memory. Journal Of Neuroscience 2014, 34: 7735-7743. PMID: 24899697, PMCID: PMC4044240, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4741-13.2014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWorking memoryTrial-by-trial fluctuationsAlpha oscillationsVisual WM taskPosterior alpha oscillationsWM-guided behaviourTrial to trialVisual WMWM taskAlpha-band activityMemory accuracyStimulus encodingMemorized itemsMemory recallState-dependent processesPrestimulus stateVisual cognitionBand activityVisual evoked responsesNeural excitabilityModel-based analysisMemoryCortical excitabilityCapacity limitsEvoked responses
2011
Response inhibition results in the emotional devaluation of faces: neural correlates as revealed by fMRI
Doallo S, Raymond J, Shapiro K, Kiss M, Eimer M, Nobre A. Response inhibition results in the emotional devaluation of faces: neural correlates as revealed by fMRI. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience 2011, 7: 649-659. PMID: 21642353, PMCID: PMC3427860, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr031.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFunctional magnetic resonance imagingResponse inhibitionNeural mechanismsBrain activityTop-down inhibitory mechanismsSocial Emotional EvaluationResponse to facesSocial-emotional networkGo/No-Go taskTask 2TASK-1Amygdala activationExecutive controlResponse-selectionBehavioral ratingsGo/No-GoInhibitory controlBrain mechanismsRating taskBehavioral measuresBrain areasResponse suppressionAffective responsesValue representationMagnetic resonance imaging