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Focus on emotion and emotion disorders

Nature Neuroscience presents a special focus on emotion and emotion disorders, published in the September 2007 issue and accessible online. Regulation of emotion is becoming better understood, but despite the societal costs of disorders like depression and anxiety, their causes remain unclear. Five review articles in this issue provide perspective on this literature.
New insights into BDNF function in depression and anxiety
Keri Martinowich, Husseini Manji & Bai Lu
Social learning of fear
Andreas Olsson & Elizabeth A Phelps
Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition
Turhan Canli & Klaus-Peter Lesch
Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression
Amar Sahay & Rene Hen
Targeting abnormal neural circuits in mood and anxiety disorders: from the laboratory to the clinic
Kerry J Ressler & Helen S Mayberg

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