Publications

Negative Affect and Stress

Bhanji JP, Delgado MR, Ray S. Neural responses to negative events and subsequent persistence behavior differ in individuals recovering from opioid use disorder compared to controls. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2021 Mar 18:1-11. doi: 10.1080/00952990.2021.1888960.
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Watanabe, N, Bhanji, JP, Ohira, H, Delgado, MR. (2019).  Ventromedial prefrontal cortex contributes to performance success by controlling reward-driven arousal representation in amygdala. NeuroImage.  202:116136.
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LoBue, V., Kim, E. & Delgado, M.R. (2019).  Fear in Development. In Eds. LoBue, V & Edgar-Perez, K, Handbook of Emotional Development.  Pp. 257-282. Springer.
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Speer, M.E. & Delgado, M.R. (2017).  Reminiscing about positive memories buffers acute stress responses. Nature Human Behaviour. 1, 0093.
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Manglani, H.R., Lewis, A.H., Wilson, S.J., Delgado, M.R. (2017).  Pavlovian-to-Instrumental transfer of nicotine and food cues in deprived cigarette smokers.  Nicotine & Tobacco Research.  19 (6), 670-676.
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Porcelli A.J. & Delgado M.R. (2017).  Stress and Decision Making: Effects on valuation, learning and risk-taking. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 14:33-39.
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Bhanji, J.P., Kim, E.S., Delgado, M.R. (2016).  Perceived control alters the effect of acute stress on persistence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.  145(3): 356-65.
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Pessiglione, M. & Delgado, M.R. (2015). The good, the bad and the brain: Neural correlates of appetitive and aversive values underlying decision making. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 5:78-84.
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Bhanji, J.P. & Delgado, M.R. (2014).  Perceived control influences neural responses to setbacks and promotes persistence. Neuron. 83(6):1369-1375.
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Lewis, A.H., Porcelli, A.J., Delgado, M.R. (2014). The effects of acute stress exposure on striatal activity during Pavlovian conditioning with monetary gains and losses. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 8:179.
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Lewis, A.H., Niznikiewicz, M.A., Delamater, A.R., Delgado, M.R. (2013). Avoidance-based human Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer.  European Journal of Neuroscience.  38(12):3740-8.
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Scherf, S.K., Smyth, J.M., Delgado, M.R. (2013).  The amygdala: an agent of change in adolescent neural networks. Hormones & Behavior. 64(2):298-313.
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Lewis, A.H. & Delgado, M.R. (2013). Between abstinence and dependency: Understanding the brain and behavioral correlates of reward learning in occasional stimulant users.  Biological Psychiatry. 73(3):209-10.
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Porcelli, A.J., Lewis, A.H., & Delgado, M.R. (2012). Acute stress influences neural circuits of reward processing. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 6:157.
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Lempert, K., Porcelli, A.J., Delgado, M.R., Tricomi, E. (2012). Individual differences in delay discounting under acute stress: the role of trait perceived stress.  Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience. 5:71.
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Niznikiewicz, M. & Delgado, M.R. (2011) Two sides of the same coin: Learning via positive and negative reinforcers in the human striatum. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(4):494-505.
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Delgado, M.R., Jou, R.L., Phelps, E.A. (2011) Neural systems underlying aversive conditioning in humans with primary and secondary reinforcers. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience. 5:71.
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Nadler, N., Delgado, M.R., Delameter, A. (2011) Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control in a human learning task. Emotion, 11 (5):1112-1123.
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Schiller, D., & Delgado, M.R. (2010) Overlapping neural systems mediating extinction, reversal and regulation of fear. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14(6): 268-276.
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Delgado, M.R., Jou, R.L., LeDoux, J.E., Phelps, E.A. (2009) Avoiding negative outcomes: Tracking the mechanisms of avoidance learning in humans during fear conditioning. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 3:33.
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Porcelli, A.J. & Delgado, M.R. (2009) Acute stress modulates risk taking in financial decision-making. Psychological Science, 20(3): 278-283.
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Delgado, M.R., Li, J., Schiller, D., Phelps, E.A. (2008) The role of the striatum in aversive learning and aversive prediction errors. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 363, 3787-3800.
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Sharot, T., Martorella, E.A., Delgado, M.R., Phelps, E.A. (2007) How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 104(1): 389-394.
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Delgado, M.R., Labouliere, C.D., Phelps, E.A. (2006) Fear of losing money? Aversive conditioning with secondary reinforcers. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1: 250-259.
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Delgado, M.R., Olsson, A., Phelps, E.A. (2006) Extending animal models of fear conditioning to humans. Biological Psychology, 73 (1):39-48.
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Phelps, E.A., Delgado, M.R., Nearing, K.I., LeDoux, J.E. (2004). Extinction learning in humans: Role of the amygdala and vmPFC.  Neuron, 43 (6): 897-905.
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