Topic: emotion

This UniDistance Suisse event explores how research on socio-emotional skills can inform play, learning and discussion about emotions. It introduces the Emotion board game through a keynote, an interdisciplinary panel and practical activities, in collaboration with the Réseau Émotions et Éducation. Programme on 11 November 2026, Europe/Zurich (CET, UTC+01:00): 13:45 welcome; 13:50–14:05 keynote on experiencing emotions through play with Andrea Samson (UniDistance Suisse) and Nicolas Bressoud (HEP-VS); 14:05 film; 14:15–15:00 panel with Michele Ursprung (Canal9), David Sander (CISA and Univers

Ralph Adolphs explains how the brain creates emotions including fear, joy, and awe, and discusses evidence-based approaches to emotion regulation. The episode connects neural mechanisms with attention, decision-making, and bodily state.

Lloyd Minor and Karl Deisseroth discuss how tools for mapping and controlling neural circuits are reshaping research on the human mind. Deisseroth recounts the development of optogenetics and its use in investigating the brain activity underlying emotion and behavior. They explore Stanford Medicine's Human Neural Circuitry research program and how advances in circuit-level neuroscience could improve understanding and treatment of mental illness. The conversation also considers scientific discovery and the importance of humility in research.

Cognitive and emotional processes are shaped by the dynamic integration of brain and body. A major channel of interoceptive information comes from the heart, where phasic signals are conveyed to the brain to indicate how fast and strong the heart is beating. This talk will discuss how interoceptive processes operate across conscious and unconscious levels to influence emotion and memory. The interoceptive channel is disrupted in distinct ways in individuals with autism and anxiety. Selective interoceptive disturbance is related to symptomatology including dissociation and the transdiagnostic e

Gaining insight into the overlapping neural circuits that regulate positive and negative emotion is an important step towards understanding the heterogeneity in the aetiology of anxiety and depression and developing new treatment targets. Determining the core contributions of the functionally heterogenous prefrontal cortex to these circuits is especially illuminating given its marked dysregulation in affective disorders. This presentation will review a series of studies in a new world monkey, the common marmoset, employing pathway-specific chemogenetics, neuroimaging, neuropharmacology and beh

Investigations of the neural systems mediating the processing of social groups defined by race, specifically Black and White race groups in American participants, reveals significant overlap with brain mechanisms involved in emotion. This talk will provide an overview of research on the neuroscience of race and emotion, focusing on implicit race attitudes. Implicit race attitudes are expressed without conscious effort and control, and contrast with explicit, conscious attitudes. In spite of sharp decline in the expression of explicit, negative attitudes towards outgroup race members over the l

Reliable and validated measures of emotion in animals are of great import; they are crucial to better understanding and developing treatments for human mood disorders, and they are necessary for ensuring good animal welfare. We have developed a novel measure of emotion in animals that is grounded in theory and psychological research – decision-making under ambiguity. Specifically, we consider that more ‘optimistic’ decisions about ambiguous stimuli reflect more positive emotional states, while the opposite is true for more ‘pessimistic’ decisions. In this talk, we will outline the background b