Human Brain
James K. Rilling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, Emory University

James Rilling:: Publications

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2008

In press. Effect of menstrual cycle on resting brain metabolism in female rhesus monkeys. NeuroReport.

In press. Decision-making and neuroeconomics: Social interaction. In: Larry Squire (Ed) The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Academic Press, Oxford.

In press. Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind. Oxford University Press.

In press. Evolution, of the brain: in humans – specializations in a comparative perspective. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, M.D. Binder, N. Hirokawa, U. Windhorst, M.C. Hirsch (eds), Springer- Verlag.

In press. Evolution, of the brain: in humans – paleoneurology. In:4 Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, M.D. Binder, N. Hirokawa, U. Windhorst, M.C. Hirsch (eds), Springer-Verlag.

The Evolution of the Arcuate Fasciculus Revealed with Comparative DTI. Nature Neuroscience. http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nn2072

The neural correlates of the affective response to unreciprocated cooperation. Neuropsychologia (2008)

DTI Tractography of the Human Brain's Language Pathways. Cereb Cortex. Epub ahead of print.

2007

A comparison of resting-state brain activity in humans and chimpanzees.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. vol. 104,no. 43: 17146–17151

Neural correlates of social cooperation and non-cooperation as a function of psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry.61:1260–1271.

 

2006

Evolution of the Cerebellum in Anthropoid Primates. In John Kass (ed.) Evolution of Nervous Systems. Academic Press. Oxford. pp 149-156.

Human and non-human primate brains: are they allometrically scaled versions of the same design? Evolutionary Anthropology 15(2): 65-77.

Determining hierarchical functional networks from auditory stimuli fMRI. Human Brain Mapping 27(5):462-470.

The effects of tryptophan depletion on the performance of an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game in healthy adults. Neuropsychopharmacology 31(5):1075-84

A Bayesian approach to determining connectivity of the human brain. Human Brain Mapping 27:267-276.

Noninvasive neuroimaging techniques for the study of primate brain development. In: Gene P. Sackett, Gerald Ruppenthal, and Kate Elias (eds) Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century. Springer. New York. pp. 485-511.

2004

Opposing BOLD responses to reciprocated and unreciprocated altruism in putative reward pathways.NeuroReport 15(16): 2539-2543.

The neural correlates of theory of mind within interpersonal interactions. NeuroImage 22:1694-1703.

The neural correlates of mate competition in dominant male rhesus macaques. Biological Psychiatry 56:364-375.

Placebo-induced changes in fMRI in the anticipation and experience of pain. Science 303:1162-1167.

2003

The neural basis of economic decision-making in the ultimatum game. Science 300:1755-1758.

Expansion of the neocerebellum in Hominoidea. Journal of Human Evolution 44(4):401-29.

2002

A neural basis for social cooperation. Neuron 35:395-405.

A quantitative morphometric comparative analysis of the primate temporal lobe. Journal of Human Evolution 42:505-533.

2001

Allometric departures for the human brain provide insights into hominid brain evolution. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 24:292-293.

Anatomy and three-dimensional reconstruction of the brain of a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). The Anatomical Record. 264(4):397-414.

Neural correlates of maternal separation in rhesus monkeys. Biological Psychiatry 49:146-157

2000

Relative volume of the cerebellum in dolphins and comparison with anthropoid primates. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 56:204-211.

A comparative MRI study of the relationship between neuroanatomical asymmetry and interhemispheric connectivity in primates: implication for the evolution of functional asymmetries. Behavioral Neuroscience 114 (4): 739-748.

1999

The Human Neocortex in Comparative Perspective Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Journal of Human Evolution 37:191-223.

Differential expansion of neural projection systems in primate brain evolution. NeuroReport 10: 1453-1459.

1998

Evolution of the Primate Cerebellum: differences in relative volume among monkeys, apes and humans. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 52: 308-314.

Differential rearing affects corpus callosum size and cognitive function of rhesus monkeys. Brain Research 812:38-49.

Planum temporale asymmetries in Great apes but not in lesser apes. Neuroreport 9:2913-2918.

1996

Ratios of plasma and salivary testosterone throughout puberty: production vs. bioavailability. Steroids 61:374-378.

1992

Regulation of Chorionic Gonadotropin-alpha and Chorionic Somatomammotropin Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Expression by 8-Bromo-Adenosin 3’, 5’-Monophosphate and Dexamethasone in Cultured Rhesus Monkey Syncytiotrophoblasts. Endocrinology 131 (1): 89-100.