Common and distinct neurofunctional representations of core and social disgust in the brain: Coordinate-based and network meta-analyses

TL;DR: The critical regions of the central autonomic system observed in this meta-analysis are among the most reported co-activated areas in neuroimaging studies and have been repeatedly shown as being dysregulated across different mental and neurological disorders.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 28 studies found that conditioned disgust is more resistant to extinction than conditioned fear, with a standardized mean difference of 0.52 for disgust and 0.37 for fear, suggesting limited effectiveness of extinction-based approaches for disgust-related disorders.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted a neuroimaging meta-analysis to compare the brain activity during social perception in patients with Parkinson disease versus healthy controls and found increased activation in the posterior cerebellum in PD.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) auction, an incentivized demand-revealing mechanism which quantifies subjective values (SVs) through the economic metric of willingness-to-pay (WTP).

TL;DR: This study uses fMRI to identify neural activity patterns within the cerebellum in 30 healthy human volunteers as they categorized images that elicited each of the five primary emotions: happiness, anger, disgust, fear and sadness, and provides important clues to the diverse effects of cerebellar pathology on human affective function.

TL;DR: Findings from the lab and others show that, although many existing studies do not control for anger when studying disgust, disgust at nonbodily violations is often associated with anger and hard to separate from it, while bodily violations more consistently predict disgust independently of anger.

TL;DR: There is accumulating evidence that disgust does represent an important vulnerability factor for many of these psychopathologies, but when disgust-relevant psychopathologies do meet the criteria required for clinical diagnosis, they are characterized by significant levels of both disgust and fear/anxiety.

TL;DR: The results provide evidence of both functional specialization and integration within AI and mACC, and support a comprehensive role of this network in processing aversive experiences for self and others.