The Neurobiology of Health Communication

This issue of Psychosomatic Medicine describes findings from an innovative study by Kang et al that used neuroimaging methods to quantify neural responses to health communications. Findings indicated that sedentary individuals who hold self-transcendent values show attenuated limbic threat responses to communications about the benefits of physical activity. Furthermore, participants who were instructed to articulate such values showed some evidence of additional blunting of the same neural response. In this editorial, we provide context for the interpretation of these findings within the existing research using the brain-as-predictor approach, and other recent trends within biobehavioral medicine involving the use of neuroscience methods in the service of health behavior change

• Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory

  Open Access•Kirk I Erickson, Michelle W Voss et al.•Proceedings of the National…•2011

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• Diabetes, Obesity, and the Brain

  Susan A Everson‐rose, Susan A Everson-Rose et al.•Psychosomatic Medicine•2015

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• The Rebirth of Neuroscience in Psychosomatic Medicine, Part I

  Richard D Lane, Shari R Waldstein et al.•Psychosomatic Medicine•2009

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• Self-Transcendent Values and Neural Responses to Threatening Health Messages

  Yoona Kang, Matthew Brook O’donnell et al.•Psychosomatic Medicine•2017

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• Effects of Anxiety on Caloric Intake and Satiety-Related Brain Activation in Women and Men

  Zoe Lucille Mestre, Zoé Mestre et al.•Psychosomatic Medicine•2016

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• Psychosomatic Disease and the "Visceral Brain"

  Paul D Maclean•Psychosomatic Medicine•1949

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• Effects of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation on Food Cravings and Consumption

  Cassandra J Lowe, Corita M Vincent et al.•Psychosomatic Medicine•2017

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• Central Adiposity and Cortical Thickness in Midlife

  Sonya Kaur, Mitzi M Gonzales et al.•Psychosomatic Medicine•2015

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