How and where negative affect is represented in the brain is a central neuroscientific question. A new study identifies neural correlates of both general negative affect and those specific to stimulus type by conducting multimodal functional MRI experiments.
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Chikazoe, J. Refining the negative into general and specific. Nat Neurosci 25, 678–679 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01077-7
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