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The temporal dynamics of voluntary emotion regulation
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 4, Iss 8, p e6726 (2009), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009.
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Abstract
- Background Neuroimaging has demonstrated that voluntary emotion regulation is effective in reducing amygdala activation to aversive stimuli during regulation. However, to date little is known about the sustainability of these neural effects once active emotion regulation has been terminated. Methodology/Principal Findings We addressed this issue by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in healthy female subjects. We performed an active emotion regulation task using aversive visual scenes (task 1) and a subsequent passive viewing task using the same stimuli (task 2). Here we demonstrate not only a significantly reduced amygdala activation during active regulation but also a sustained regulation effect on the amygdala in the subsequent passive viewing task. This effect was related to an immediate increase of amygdala signal in task 1 once active emotion regulation has been terminated: The larger this peak postregulation signal in the amygdala in task 1, the smaller the sustained regulation effect in task 2. Conclusions/Significance In summary, we found clear evidence that effects of voluntary emotion regulation extend beyond the period of active regulation. These findings are of importance for the understanding of emotion regulation in general, for disorders of emotion regulation and for psychotherapeutic interventions.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Emotions
lcsh:Medicine
Neuroimaging
Cognitive neuroscience
Amygdala
Brain mapping
Functional Laterality
Task (project management)
medicine
Humans
Prefrontal cortex
lcsh:Science
Neuroscience/Cognitive Neuroscience
Brain Mapping
Multidisciplinary
medicine.diagnostic_test
lcsh:R
Cognition
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Neuroscience/Psychology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Female
lcsh:Q
Aversive Stimulus
Psychology
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Neuroscience
Photic Stimulation
psychological phenomena and processes
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d1bb0090a8e39bbac404295218cca3df