FORUM FOR AFFECTIVE BRAINS SEMINAR SERIES (FORMERLY THE AFFECTIVE BRAINS DURING COVID SEMINAR SERIES):

• Siri Leknes, University of Oslo: What opioids do and why they are overrated
• Jon McPhetres, Durham University: Understanding emotional piloerection
• Eliane Deschrijver, Ghent University & UNSW Sydney: Sally disagrees with you: Relational versus representational mentalising
• Helena Hartmann, University of Vienna: Empathy for pain
• Roser Cañigueral, UCL: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of social signalling
• Julia Fietz, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Delineating working memory through fMRI and pupillometry and exploring its role in stress-related disorders
• Elise Weerts, Johns Hopkins: Neuroimaging of the opioid receptor subtypes towards understanding alcohol use disorder and its treatment
• Stefan Schulreich, Hamburg University: Altruism under stress
• Vanessa Teckentrup, Tübingen University: Going with your gut – Effects of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation on motivation, metabolism, and the brain
• Michelle Failla, Ohio State University: Pain Anxiety, Perception, and Expression in Autism
• Anat Perry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The contribution of different information channels to different facets of empathy
• Alex Shackman, University of Maryland: The Nature and the Neurobiology of Anxiety
• Todd Vogel, McGill University: Pain and cognitive effort
• Anne Willems, KU Leuven: Relief: the pleasure of absent danger
• Florian Bublatzky, Mannheim University: Person perception as a function of verbal threat and safety learning
• Daniel Castro, University of Washington: Next-Generation Approaches for Investigating Neuropeptidergic Circuits in Reward and Motivation
• India Morrison, University of Linköping: Recent social context shapes responses of human endogenous oxytocin and its neural correlates during touch interactions
• Pascal Vrticka, University of Essex: On the same wavelength – interpersonal neural synchrony in parent-child dyads
• Claudia Massaccesi, Universität Wien: Opioids, stress and social reward
• Balázs Szigeti, Imperial College of London: Is it placebo? Exploring microdosing with self-blinding
• Molly Carlyle, Oslo University: Pain, pleasure, and predisposition to addiction: Understanding the role of childhood trauma in substance use disorders
• Silje Endresen Reme, University of Oslo: Preventing postsurgical pain through hypnosis.
• Mats Lekander, Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet: Sick for Science.
• India Morrison, Linköping University: From action to empathy: the role of medial premotor cortex in acute pain.
• Rachel Luba, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University: Moving between the Lab and the Clinic: lessons learned and future goals for designing and running clinical trials focused on opioid use and OUD.
• Johan W.S. Vlaeyen, Maastricht University, Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium: An introduction to Single-Case Experimental Designs.
• Emma Fisher, Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath: Evidence and quality: the good, the bad, and the ugly