Vesa Putkinen

The paper investigates how neural activity patterns correspond to self-reported bodily sensations during emotional music listening and finds significant alignment in specific brain regions.

This study uses PET/MRI to examine glucose metabolism and hemodynamic responses during pleasurable music listening, revealing complementary neural activity patterns in brain regions associated with reward and emotion.

This study investigates the neural correlates of appraisal processes and discrete emotions using fMRI, finding shared brain regions and better explanation by appraisal theories.

The paper investigates how baseline mu-opioid receptor availability relates to neural responses during emotion regulation using PET and fMRI.

The paper examines how autistic traits affect neural responses to social signals in naturalistic stimuli using fMRI and finds consistent effects in the superior temporal gyrus across two experiments.

The paper identifies four moral dimensions and their neural correlates during intuitive moral inference using fMRI and consensus clustering.

This study investigates how the endogenous opioid system modulates brain responses to threat and safety signals in humans using fMRI and PET.

This study examines how acute and sustained fear affect visual attention and arousal during a horror movie, finding distinct patterns in eye movement and physiological responses.

This study uses fMRI to examine neural responses to simulated bullying in adolescents and adults, finding activation of socio-emotional and threat response systems linked to victimization experiences.

This study shows that pleasurable music activates μ-opioid receptors in the brain, as evidenced by PET and fMRI, and links individual differences in baseline receptor levels to pleasure responses.

The paper investigates how the endogenous opioid receptor system influences altruistic costly helping by linking MOR availability to brain activity during vicarious pain and helping behavior.

This study uses fMRI to show that vicarious feeding activates motor and affective brain regions and that these responses decrease with higher BMI.

The paper investigates the neural basis of laughter and crying using fMRI and MVPA, finding distinct brain networks for each emotion with overlapping suppression.

This study uses PET and fMRI to show endogenous opioid release in the hippocampus and increased hemodynamic activity in brain regions associated with sexual arousal following orgasm.

This study investigates how mu-opioid receptor availability relates to brain responses to laughter and crying sounds in humans using PET-fMRI.

This study examines age and sex differences in striatal D2R availability using a large PET cohort, finding age-related decline and sex differences in D2R levels.

The paper examines neural responses to biological motion in neurotypical individuals, finding distinct associations with autistic and schizotypal traits through fMRI and synchronization analysis.

The paper compares neural responses to emotional stimuli in psychopathy and high-functioning autism, finding distinct patterns of somatomotor alterations.

The paper uses brain activity patterns from visual sexual stimuli to accurately classify sex in subjects.

This study maps neural responses to social features in the human brain using fMRI and identifies spatial patterns of social perception.

This study finds that higher mu-opioid receptor availability in specific brain regions is associated with increased sex drive in healthy human males.

The paper investigates the neural basis of music-evoked emotions using fMRI, finding distinct brain activity patterns for different emotions in auditory and motor regions.

This study identifies distinct neural systems for acute and sustained fear using fMRI and ISC analysis in humans watching horror movies.