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Brain functional correlates of emotion regulation across adolescence and young adulthood: Development of Emotion Regulation

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Stephanou, Katerina, Davey, Christopher G., Kerestes, Rebecca, Whittle, Sarah, Pujol, Jesus, Yücel, Murat, Fornito, Alex, López-Solà, Marina +1 more·2016·Human Brain Mapping

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Few studies have examined the neural correlates of emotion regulation across adolescence and young adulthood. Existing studies of cognitive reappraisal indicate that improvements in regulatory efficiency may develop linearly across this period, in accordance with maturation of prefrontal cortical systems. However, there is also evidence for adolescent differences in reappraisal specific to the activation of "social-information processing network" regions, including the amygdala and temporal-occipital cortices. Here, we use fMRI to examine the neural correlates of emotional reactivity and reappraisal in response to aversive social imagery in a group of 78 adolescents and young adults aged 15-25 years. Within the group, younger participants exhibited greater activation of temporal-occipital brain regions during reappraisal in combination with weaker suppression of amygdala reactivity-the latter being a general correlate of successful reappraisal. Further analyses demonstrated that these age-related influences on amygdala reactivity were specifically mediated by activation of the fusiform face area. Overall, these findings suggest that enhanced processing of salient social cues (i.e., faces) increases reactivity of the amygdala during reappraisal and that this relationship is stronger in younger adolescents. How these relationships contribute to well-known vulnerabilities of emotion regulation during this developmental period will be an important topic for ongoing research.

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  • On voluntary emotion regulation tasks, TD youth show greater amygdala downregulation, increased lPFC recruitment, and increased amygdala-lPFC coupling with age.

    “On voluntary emotion regulation (reappraisal) tasks, TD youth show greater amygdala downregulation [28–30], increased lateral (l)PFC recruitment, and increased amygdala-lPFC coupling [26,28] with age.”

    From Trauma, PTSD, and the Developing Brain (2017) · cites this paper as [30]

    The fMRI Analyses section reports that older participants showed greater right-amygdala downregulation during reappraisal. The paper does not find increasing lateral PFC recruitment with age in its own sample, and its PPI Analysis reports no significant age-related change in amygdala–left dlPFC connectivity. Those two parts of the claim are not supported by this study. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • Age-related improvements in cognitive regulation of emotion are associated with reduced amygdala activation.

    “Age-related improvements in cognitive regulation of emotion are also associated with reduced amygdala activation [34,93]”
  • The behavioral ability to down-regulate negative emotion, decrease amygdala activation, and increase activity in lateral prefrontal regions tracks with age.

    “Data suggest that the behavioral ability to down-regulate negative emotion, decrease amygdala activation [25] and increase activity in lateral prefrontal regions tracks with age [26,27].”

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Authors
Stephanou, K., Davey, C. G., Kerestes, R., Whittle, S., Pujol, J., Yücel, M., Fornito, A., López-Solà, M., & Harrison, B. J.
Affiliations
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • MRI Research Unit; Hospital Del Mar; Barcelona Spain
  • Department of Psychology and Neuroscience; University of Colorado; Boulder Colorado
Venue
Human Brain Mapping
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2015-11-24
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
7-19
ISSN
1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2173228459
Cited by
86
References
96
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 4
FWCI
3.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) (1064643)
  • NHMRC Clinical Career Development Fellowship (628509)
  • Beatriu de Pinós-A of the Government of Catalunya (2010_BP_A_00136)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
emotion regulation, cognitive reappraisal, adolescence, early adulthood, amygdala reactivity, fusiform face area, emotional reactivity, face processing, brain maturation, prefrontal cortex
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Emotions, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Statistics as Topic, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Young Adult

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