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PhD Psychology Stanford University
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According to Wikipedia, Brian Knutson is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University and director of the Symbiotic Project on Affective Neuroscience. His research focuses on the neural basis of emotion, and has been covered in multiple news sources.

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The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging (2010) (2998)
Anticipation of Increasing Monetary Reward Selectively Recruits Nucleus Accumbens (2001) (2142)
Dissociation of reward anticipation and outcome with event-related fMRI (2001) (1308)
FMRI Visualization of Brain Activity during a Monetary Incentive Delay Task (2000) (1236)
The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking (2005) (1107)
Cultural variation in affect valuation. (2006) (1023)
Neural Predictors of Purchases (2007) (1005)
Distributed Neural Representation of Expected Value (2005) (950)
Reward-Motivated Learning: Mesolimbic Activation Precedes Memory Formation (2006) (852)
A region of mesial prefrontal cortex tracks monetarily rewarding outcomes: characterization with rapid event-related fMRI (2003) (834)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward prediction (2005) (745)
Facial expressions of emotion influence interpersonal trait inferences (1996) (640)
Ultrasonic vocalizations as indices of affective states in rats. (2002) (592)
Dysfunction of ventral striatal reward prediction in schizophrenia (2006) (577)
Anticipatory affect: neural correlates and consequences for choice (2008) (569)
Incentive-Elicited Brain Activation in Adolescents: Similarities and Differences from Young Adults (2004) (548)
Ventral Striatal Hyporesponsiveness During Reward Anticipation in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2007) (498)
Selective alteration of personality and social behavior by serotonergic intervention. (1998) (497)
Dysfunction of reward processing correlates with alcohol craving in detoxified alcoholics (2007) (475)
Neural Responses to Monetary Incentives in Major Depression (2008) (466)
Ventral Striatal Activation During Reward Anticipation Correlates with Impulsivity in Alcoholics (2009) (452)
Anticipation of play elicits high-frequency ultrasonic vocalizations in young rats. (1998) (426)
Prefrontal cortical regulation of brainwide circuit dynamics and reward-related behavior (2016) (420)
Dissociable neural representations of future reward magnitude and delay during temporal discounting (2009) (414)
Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults (2007) (397)
Dysfunction of ventral striatal reward prediction in schizophrenic patients treated with typical, not atypical, neuroleptics (2006) (350)
Linking nucleus accumbens dopamine and blood oxygenation (2007) (337)
Reward anticipation and outcomes in adult males with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2008) (327)
The Influence of Affect on Beliefs, Preferences and Financial Decisions (2009) (307)
The role of brain emotional systems in addictions: a neuro-evolutionary perspective and new 'self-report' animal model. (2002) (292)
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow: Individual differences in future self-continuity account for saving. (2009) (284)
Saving for the future self: neural measures of future self-continuity predict temporal discounting. (2009) (251)
Nucleus accumbens amphetamine microinjections unconditionally elicit 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in rats. (2001) (251)
Hyporeactivity of ventral striatum towards incentive stimuli in unmedicated depressed patients normalizes after treatment with escitalopram (2009) (246)
Valence and salience contribute to nucleus accumbens activation (2008) (245)
Anticipation of rewarding electrical brain stimulation evokes ultrasonic vocalization in rats. (2000) (243)
Nucleus accumbens activation mediates the influence of reward cues on financial risk taking (2008) (233)
Decision making in the ageing brain: changes in affective and motivational circuits (2015) (223)
Variability in Nucleus Accumbens Activity Mediates Age-Related Suboptimal Financial Risk Taking (2010) (220)
Reward system activation in schizophrenic patients switched from typical neuroleptics to olanzapine (2008) (215)
Neural Antecedents of Financial Decisions (2007) (213)
High-Frequency Ultrasonic Vocalizations Index Conditioned Pharmacological Reward in Rats (1999) (212)
Interpretable whole-brain prediction analysis with GraphNet (2013) (199)
Individual Differences in Insular Sensitivity During Loss Anticipation Predict Avoidance Learning (2008) (176)
Amphetamine Modulates Human Incentive Processing (2004) (174)
Different neural systems adjust motor behavior in response to reward and punishment (2007) (167)
Affective Influence on Judgments and Decisions: Moving towards Core Mechanisms (2007) (165)
Nucleus accumbens D2R cells signal prior outcomes and control risky decision-making (2016) (161)
Affective traits link to reliable neural markers of incentive anticipation (2014) (157)
Neural Antecedents of the Endowment Effect (2008) (147)
Incentive-elicited striatal activation in adolescent children of alcoholics. (2008) (144)
Affect dynamics, affective forecasting, and aging. (2008) (143)
Neurally reconstructing expected utility (2005) (133)
Negative association of neuroticism with brain volume ratio in healthy humans (2001) (127)
Frontostriatal White Matter Integrity Mediates Adult Age Differences in Probabilistic Reward Learning (2012) (123)
Neural Underpinnings of the Identifiable Victim Effect: Affect Shifts Preferences for Giving (2013) (118)
Interpretable Classifiers for fMRI Improve Prediction of Purchases (2008) (118)
Neural Affective Mechanisms Predict Market-Level Microlending (2015) (118)
Advancing consumer neuroscience (2014) (113)
Interactivity and Reward-Related Neural Activation during a Serious Videogame (2012) (110)
Polluting the stream of consciousness: The effect of thought suppression on the mind's environment (1991) (100)
Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision Making (2015) (92)
Ventral Striatal Activation during Reward Processing in Subjects with Ultra-High Risk for Schizophrenia (2012) (91)
Mechanism of Mediator Recruitment by Tandem Gcn4 Activation Domains and Three Gal11 Activator-Binding Domains (2010) (90)
Adult age differences in frontostriatal representation of prediction error but not reward outcome (2014) (90)
Volition to Action—An Event-Related fMRI Study (2002) (87)
Inferring affect from fMRI data (2014) (86)
Blunted ventral striatal responses to anticipated rewards foreshadow problematic drug use in novelty-seeking adolescents (2017) (84)
Reward processing in male adults with childhood ADHD—a comparison between drug-naïve and methylphenidate-treated subjects (2011) (83)
Splitting the Difference (2007) (83)
Domains of Tra1 Important for Activator Recruitment and Transcription Coactivator Functions of SAGA and NuA4 Complexes (2010) (82)
White-Matter Tract Connecting Anterior Insula to Nucleus Accumbens Correlates with Reduced Preference for Positively Skewed Gambles (2016) (80)
Spatial smoothing systematically biases the localization of reward-related brain activity (2013) (79)
Yeast Rrn7 and Human TAF1B Are TFIIB-Related RNA Polymerase I General Transcription Factors (2011) (78)
Expected Value Information Improves Financial Risk Taking Across the Adult Life Span (2011) (75)
Representation of Subjective Value in the Striatum (2009) (74)
When Brain Beats Behavior: Neuroforecasting Crowdfunding Outcomes (2017) (73)
Neural evidence for cultural differences in the valuation of positive facial expressions. (2016) (72)
Control of nucleus accumbens activity with neurofeedback (2014) (70)
Dissociating Motivation from Reward in Human Striatal Activity (2014) (69)
When Giving Is Good: Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activation for Others' Intentions (2010) (68)
Sweet Revenge? (2004) (67)
Closing the loop on impulsivity via nucleus accumbens delta-band activity in mice and man (2017) (66)
Amygdalar Recruitment during Anticipation of Monetary Rewards (2003) (64)
Reward Processing After Catecholamine Depletion in Unmedicated, Remitted Subjects with Major Depressive Disorder (2009) (60)
Reward: Neural Circuitry for Social Valuation. (2007) (58)
Neuroforecasting Aggregate Choice (2018) (58)
The rise of affectivism (2021) (55)
The Affective Impact of Financial Skewness on Neural Activity and Choice (2011) (54)
Structural mechanism of ATP-independent transcription initiation by RNA polymerase I (2017) (52)
Probing Psychiatric Symptoms with the Monetary Incentive Delay Task (2015) (52)
Serotonergic Genotypes, Neuroticism, and Financial Choices (2011) (51)
Evaluation of rat ultrasonic vocalizations as predictors of the conditioned aversive effects of drugs (2001) (51)
Toward an Affective Neuroscience Account of Financial Risk Taking (2012) (43)
The risk matrix (2015) (43)
Insights into the domain and repeat architecture of target of rapamycin. (2010) (41)
Gain and Loss Learning Differentially Contribute to Life Financial Outcomes (2011) (40)
Striatal dopamine deficits predict reductions in striatal functional connectivity in major depression: a concurrent 11C-raclopride positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation (2018) (39)
Neural valuation of environmental resources (2015) (36)
Parametric FMRI confirms selective recruitment of nucleus accumbens during anticipation of monetary reward (2001) (32)
Reward Processing and Risky Decision Making in the Aging Brain (2012) (31)
Vaccinia Virus Intermediate and Late Promoter Elements Are Targeted by the TATA-Binding Protein (2006) (31)
Association of Neural Responses to Drug Cues With Subsequent Relapse to Stimulant Use (2018) (30)
Effects of fluoxetine on play dominance in juvenile rats (1996) (29)
TFIIB-related factors in RNA polymerase I transcription. (2013) (29)
Brain activity forecasts video engagement in an internet attention market (2020) (28)
Available alternative incentives modulate anticipatory nucleus accumbens activation. (2009) (28)
Individual Differences in Susceptibility (2014) (27)
Altered prefrontal correlates of monetary anticipation and outcome in chronic pain (2018) (26)
Neurocultural evidence that ideal affect match promotes giving (2017) (23)
Neural Sensitivity to Absolute and Relative Anticipated Reward in Adolescents (2013) (23)
Architecture of the S. cerevisiae RNA polymerase I Core Factor complex (2014) (22)
Effects of Serotonin Depletion on the Play of Juvenile Rats (1997) (22)
Antiviral Activity of Distamycin A against Vaccinia Virus Is the Result of Inhibition of Postreplicative mRNA Synthesis (2004) (21)
A Genetic Polymorphism of the Human Dopamine Transporter Determines the Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Brain Responses to Rewards and Punishments (2016) (20)
Neural sensitivity to personal and vicarious reward differentially relate to prosociality and well-being (2018) (20)
Distinct neural circuits support incentivized inhibition (2018) (18)
A family of interpretable multivariate models for regression and classification of whole-brain fMRI data (2011) (18)
The Lure of the Unknown (2006) (18)
Toward a Neuroscience of Emotion (1998) (17)
Medial forebrain bundle structure is linked to human impulsivity (2020) (16)
The interdisciplinary science of consumption (2014) (16)
Neural responses to monetary incentives in bipolar disorder (2019) (16)
Ventral striatal activation during reward anticipation correlates with impulsivity in alcoholics (2009) (16)
Expansion of poxvirus RNA polymerase subunits sharing homology with corresponding subunits of RNA polymerase II (2008) (15)
Treacher Collins syndrome mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae destabilize RNA polymerase I and III complex integrity (2017) (15)
Multi-band FMRI compromises detection of mesolimbic reward responses (2021) (15)
Whole-brain Sparse Penalized Discriminant Analysis for Predicting Choice (2009) (14)
Apparent Effects of Opioid Use on Neural Responses to Reward in Chronic Pain (2019) (14)
Downregulation of vaccinia virus intermediate and late promoters by host transcription factor YY1. (2009) (13)
Voxel-based homogeneity probability maps of gray matter in groups: assessing the reliability of functional effects (2004) (12)
Serotonergic Intervention Increases Affiliative Behavior in Humans (1997) (12)
Domains of Tra 1 Important for Activator Recruitment and Transcription Coactivator Functions of SAGA and NuA 4 Complexes † (2011) (12)
Brains, environments, and policy responses to addiction (2017) (12)
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTION INTERPERSONAL TRAIT INFERENCES (1996) (11)
Remembrance of Rewards Past (2005) (11)
Reward and loss anticipation in panic disorder: An fMRI study (2018) (10)
Emergence and expansion of TFIIB-like factors in the plant kingdom. (2013) (10)
Culturally valued facial expressions enhance loan request success. (2020) (10)
Reconstitution of RNA Polymerase I Upstream Activating Factor and the Roles of Histones H3 and H4 in Complex Assembly (2018) (9)
Brain-Responsive Neurostimulation for Loss of Control Eating: Early Feasibility Study. (2020) (9)
Making Sense of Our Emotions. (1996) (8)
Individual differences in skewed financial risk-taking across the adult life span (2016) (8)
Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain (2014) (7)
Ventral striatal activity mediates cultural differences in affiliative judgments of smiles (2018) (7)
Dynamics of the RNA polymerase I TFIIF/TFIIE-like subcomplex: a mini-review. (2020) (7)
Whole-brain Prediction Analysis with GraphNet (2011) (7)
Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Investment Fraud (2014) (6)
Conditional depletion of the RNA polymerase I subunit PAF53 reveals that it is essential for mitosis and enables identification of functional domains (2019) (6)
Social media users produce more affect that supports cultural values, but are more influenced by affect that violates cultural values. (2021) (5)
Toward a Deep Science of Affect and Motivation (2019) (5)
Bidirectional transcriptional promoters in the vaccinia virus genome. (2009) (5)
DNA binding preferences of S. cerevisiae RNA polymerase I Core Factor reveal a preference for the GC-minor groove and a conserved binding mechanism. (2019) (5)
White-matter tract connecting anterior insula to nucleus accumbens predicts greater future motivation in adolescents (2020) (5)
Striatal and septo-hypothalamic responses to anticipation and outcome of affiliative rewards (2021) (5)
Anticipation of monetary rewards activates nucleus accumbens (2000) (4)
Super elongation complex contains a TFIIF-related subcomplex (2016) (4)
Molecular Topology of RNA Polymerase I Upstream Activation Factor (2020) (4)
Breaking the mold: structures of the RNA polymerase I transcription complex reveal a new path for initiation (2018) (4)
Multistate structures of the MLL1-WRAD complex bound to H2B-ubiquitinated nucleosome (2022) (4)
Brain Activity Foreshadows Stock Price Dynamics (2021) (3)
Targeting the Salience Network: A Mini-Review on a Novel Neuromodulation Approach for Treating Alcohol Use Disorder (2022) (3)
Functional Neuroanatomy of Approach and Active Avoidance using fMRI (1998) (3)
Long-term behavioral sensitization induced by a bridged organophosphate (1996) (3)
Brain tract structure predicts relapse to stimulant drug use (2022) (3)
Wildland firefighters and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (2011) (3)
Erratum: Crystal structure of the extracellular domain of nAChR α1 bound to α-bungarotoxin at 1.94 Å resolution (2007) (2)
"Affect dynamics, affective forecasting, and aging": Correction to Nielsen, Knutson, and Carstensen (2008). (2008) (2)
The emotional brain : an introduction to affective neuroscience (2010) (2)
normalizes after treatment with escitalopram Hyporeactivity of ventral striatum towards incentive stimuli in unmedicated depressed patients (2012) (2)
Replication of neural responses to monetary incentives and exploration of reward-influenced network connectivity in fibromyalgia (2022) (2)
Event-related FMRI reveals distinct neural correlates of reward anticipation versus feedback (2001) (2)
On the brain and personality substrates of psychopathy (1995) (2)
Brain, Decision, and Debt (2012) (2)
Corrigendum: Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults (2007) (2)
Age-related variability and financial risk taking 1 Section: Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive Title: Variability in nucleus accumbens activity mediates age-related suboptimal financial risk taking Abbreviated title: Age-related variability and financial risk taking Authors and addresses: (2009) (1)
Author response: Structural mechanism of ATP-independent transcription initiation by RNA polymerase I (2017) (1)
Disentangling the Skeins of Brain (2022) (1)
Cumulative effects of reward and loss on pain evaluation (2009) (1)
Request Framing Moderates Affective Preferences in Charitable Giving (2016) (1)
WC4B VENTRAL STRIATAL ACTIVATION DURING EXPECTANCY OF REWARD IN PATIENTS WITHULTRA-HIGH RISK FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA (2006) (1)
Differential brain activation response to different frequency of electroacupuncture (2001) (1)
Ventral striatum activation by typical versus atypical neuroleptics in a fMRI paradigm with monetary incentive stimuli (2005) (1)
Altered brain reward response to monetary incentives in fibromyalgia: A replication study (2022) (1)
Affect Valuation Index (2016) (1)
Longitudinal tracking of human plasma oxytocin suggests complex responses to moral elevation (2021) (1)
Psychobiology of personality disorders (2004) (1)
Request framing moderates the influence of affective images on charitable giving (2018) (1)
Acute Ketamine Modulated Functional Brain Coupling and Dissociative and Affective States in Human Subjects: Interim Analyses (2021) (1)
Brain activation in space-time: A combined event-related fMRI and high-density EEG study (2001) (1)
Carboxyhemoglobin Values in Wildland Firefighters: 2841 (2010) (1)
287 Likelihood of COVID-19 Positive Test Results in Patients Who Present to the Emergency Department With Key COVID Chief Symptoms (2020) (1)
Deal or no Deal ? The Neural Basis of Decision Utility and Loss Aversion During Consumer Decision-Making (2015) (0)
P226. Deconstructing Ketamine-Induced Changes in Cortisol and Dissociative and Affective States in a Controlled Mechanistic Study (2022) (0)
Taking gambles at face value: Effects of emotional expressions on risky decisions (2022) (0)
43. Acute Effects of MDMA on Intrinsic Functional Connectomes Associated With Altered States of Consciousness and Defensiveness (2023) (0)
The Sociology of Landowner Interest in Restoring Fire-adapted , Biodiverse Habitats in the Wildland-Urban Interface Of Oregon ' s Willamette Valley Ecoregion (2018) (0)
Neural Prediction of Market-Level Crowdfunding Outcomes (2016) (0)
Accept Or Reject?: How Task Valence Interacts With Product Information Processing to Alter Purchase Decisions (2009) (0)
Improving FMRI prediction of purchases with Penalized Discriminant Analyses (2007) (0)
Adult age differences in frontostriatal representation of prediction error but not reward outcome (2014) (0)
The Neuroscience of Emotion and Motivation (2015) (0)
Large hyperpigmented nodule on the leg. (2017) (0)
Defining the Critical DNA Features Targeted by RNA Polymerase I Core Factor (2022) (0)
EDAD 833 School Law (2002) (0)
Ventral striatal activity mediates cultural differences in affiliative judgments of smiles (2018) (0)
Adult age differences in the influence of financial skewness on choice and neural activity (2016) (0)
Affective Mechanisms in Microlending Decisions: Using Internet Data and Neuroimaging to Predict Market-Level Behavior (2015) (0)
Dr. Knutson and Colleagues Reply (1999) (0)
Characterization of Fly POLR1D Mutations in a Clinically Relevant Residue Associated with Treacher Collins Syndrome (TCS) (2022) (0)
Using neuroimaging in optimization of NIBS in addiction (2023) (0)
Towards maximizing precision in TMS dose: leveraging demographic variables to predict scalp-to-cortex distance at the frontal poles among veterans with alcohol use disorder (2023) (0)
Book Review: Growing Volkisb Identity in the Third Reich (2005) (0)
44. Acute Effects of MDMA on Negative Affective Brain Circuit Function: A Randomized Controlled Mechanistic Trial (2023) (0)
Eukaryotic RNA Polymerase ⍺‐like Subunits Heterodimerize by Distinct Interaction Mechanisms (2022) (0)
147 Responsive Neurostimulation for Impulsivity: Evidence from a Mouse Model of Binge-eating Behavior (2017) (0)
Individual differences in skewed financial risk-taking across the adult life span (2017) (0)
Advancing consumer neuroscience (2014) (0)
Week in The Journal F Cellular / Molecular cAMP and a Retinal Clock (2004) (0)
Apparent Effects of Opioid Use on Neural Responses to Reward in Chronic Pain (2019) (0)
539. Ketamine’s Acute Effects on Negative Brain States are Mediated Through Distinct Altered States in Humans (2023) (0)
AP-PSPJ210047 1..15 (2021) (0)
Regulation of vaccinia virus post-replicative gene expression (2007) (0)
P341. Acute Ketamine Modulates Cognitive Control Network Activity During Cognitive Inhibition: Evidence From a Mechanistic Trial (2022) (0)
Neuroimaging probes of reward anticipation: Links to (an) hedonia (2011) (0)
Locating TATA Binding Protein in the RNA Polymerase I Pre‐Initiation Complex (2020) (0)
The role of yeast RNA polymerase I initiation factor Core Factor subunit Rrn7 in promoter open complex formation (2018) (0)
The Codependent Expression of the Essential Mammalian RNA Polymerase I PAF49/PAF53 Heterodimer (2022) (0)
The Codependent Expression of Yeast RNA Polymerase I Rpa34/Rpa49 Heterodimer Subcomplex (2022) (0)
A clinically‐relevant residue of POLR1D is required for Drosophila development (2022) (0)
Neural correlates of videogame play-induced attitude change (2009) (0)
Yeast RNA polymerase I Core Factor binds to the ribosomal DNA promoter through the GC minor groove (2018) (0)
Neuron Neural Predictors of Purchases (2013) (0)
Statistical estimation of the hemodynamic response function by application of a linear time invariant model in the fourier domain to functional magnetic resonance data (2001) (0)
Stephen Lisberger What do you expect ? : fMRI of Expected Utility (2004) (0)
The Effects of Price Primacy on Decision-Making and Perceptions of Product Value (2011) (0)
Alteration of personality by serotonergic intervention [23] (multiple letters) (1999) (0)
Neural responses clarify how ecolabels promote sustainable purchases (2022) (0)
Differential time course of brain activation during electroacupuncture (2000) (0)
The Journal of Neuroscience http://jneurosci.msubmit.net Variability in nucleus accumbens activity mediates age-related suboptimal financial risk taking JN-RM-4902-09R1 (2009) (0)
ALTERATION OF PERSONALITY BY SEROTONERGIC INTERVENTION. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (0)
Growing Volkish Identity in the Third Reich (2004) (0)

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