Turhan Canli

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of life stress experience in modifying 5-HTT function in the brain was discussed and integration of these findings suggests that the impact of the 5HTT gene on behavior is much broader than is commonly appreciated and may have a role in social cognition.

TL;DR: The view that amygdala activation reflects moment-to-moment subjective emotional experience and that this activation enhances memory in relation to the emotional intensity of an experience is supported.

TL;DR: Women had significantly more brain regions where activation correlated with both ongoing evaluation of emotional experience and with subsequent memory for the most emotionally arousing pictures, and greater overlap in brain regions sensitive to current emotion and contributing to subsequent memory may be a neural mechanism for emotions to enhance memory more powerfully in women than in men.

TL;DR: This study provides direct evidence that personality is associated with brain reactivity to emotional stimuli and identifies both common and distinct brain regions where such modulation takes place.

TL;DR: Both older and younger adults showed greater activation in the amygdala for emotional than for neutral pictures; however, for older adults, seeing positive pictures led to greater amygdala activation than seeing negative pictures, whereas this was not the case for younger adults.