Cody A. Cushing

This study uses real-time fMRI decoding to modulate pain-related brain patterns and shows that participants can down-regulate pain signatures, correlating with changes in perceived pain intensity.

This study investigates how fear is processed in the brain by analyzing hemodynamic activity patterns in the ventral visual stream and prefrontal cortex in response to animal images.

The paper identifies multiple functional connectivity networks involved in threat and safety signaling during threat learning and extinction using fMRI and independent component analysis.

The paper investigates sex-related differences in amygdala responses to facial threat cues, finding sex-specific functional and structural amygdala differences in processing fear and eye gaze.

This study examines brain oscillatory responses to fearful faces with direct or averted gaze during brief and longer exposures, showing exposure duration affects threat signal processing stages.

The paper shows that trait anxiety differentially affects processing of clear and ambiguous facial threat cues via M and P pathways, with lateralized amygdala reactivity.

The paper investigates how the brain processes crowd emotion versus individual face emotion, finding differential involvement of visual streams and hemispheres.