This study used neuroimaging to show a ventral putamen-centered open-loop circuit linking emotions and movement in humans. Contextual incentives influence which motor circuit is activated, shedding light on paradoxical kinesia in Parkinson's Disease.
These findings highlight neural correlates of adaptive behavioral mobilization during emotion-guided action, shedding light on motor circuitry that may be engaged during paradoxical kinesia, a phenomenon of emotion-relevant motor facilitation in PD.
Online repository for the data and scripts used in the Stasiak et al., 2026 preprint on TREV-derived cardiac contractility in threat anticipation contexts.
