Julian Francis Thayer

The paper investigates brain regions involved in autonomic activity during emotion regulation and rest, finding distinct afferent and efferent systems and age-related differences in their coordination.

This study shows that microglia in the locus coeruleus of female rats influence hypervigilant responses to social stress, with site-specific microglia depletion reducing stress-induced behaviors.

The paper investigates the functional brain-heart interplay during emotional processing using EEG and ECG data from healthy participants, showing that sympathovagal activity initiates and sustains emotional responses.

This study examines the relationship between MRI-measured locus coeruleus structure and physiological stress responses in younger and older adults, finding stronger associations in older adults.