A research team led by Dr. KONG Yazhuo from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his collaborators has developed a new neuroimaging model that integrates corticospinal activity to predict human pain perception.
Affective forecasting (AF) refers to an individual's expectations of the emotions they will experience in the future. AF plays a crucial role in daily lives and is important for mental health. However, there is a paucity of empirical studies comparing the shared and distinct AF performance across subclinical samples, and hence, the underlying neural mechanisms of AF in these subclinical samples...
The study suggests that the engagement of the DMN in both external and internal cognition is grounded in its microarchitectural differentiation into complementary receiver- and sender-like zones.
