The group is dedicated to the study of the physiological and psychological mechanisms underlying human emotions. Its main objective is to advance knowledge about the complex relationships between emotions and the biological body that sustains them, to use this knowledge to promote novel clinical applications that contribute to reducing human suffering and to increase the efficacy and efficiency of current psychological treatments.
A fundamental area of research of the group, in which these elements converge, has been the study in humans of the emotional and attentional mechanisms of the two primary motivational systems: the defensive (related to negative emotions) and the appetitive (related to positive emotions). The clinical applications of this line of research have been directed towards three disorders:
- Anxiety disorders
- Eating disorders
- Addictive disorders