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Neural correlates of using distancing to regulate emotional responses to social situations

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Koenigsberg, Harold W., Fan, Jin, Ochsner, Kevin N., Liu, Xun, Guise, Kevin, Pizzarello, Scott, Dorantes, Christine, Tecuta, Lucia +5 more·2010·Neuropsychologia

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Cognitive reappraisal is a commonly used and highly adaptive strategy for emotion regulation that has been studied in healthy volunteers. Most studies to date have focused on forms of reappraisal that involve reinterpreting the meaning of stimuli and have intermixed social and non-social emotional stimuli. Here we examined the neural correlates of the regulation of negative emotion elicited by social situations using a less studied form of reappraisal known as distancing. Whole brain fMRI data were obtained as participants viewed aversive and neutral social scenes with instructions to either simply look at and respond naturally to the images or to downregulate their emotional responses by distancing. Three key findings were obtained accompanied with the reduced aversive response behaviorally. First, across both instruction types, aversive social images activated the amygdala. Second, across both image types, distancing activated the precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), intraparietal sulci (IPS), and middle/superior temporal gyrus (M/STG). Third, when distancing one's self from aversive images, activity increased in dorsal anterior cingulate (dACC), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), lateral prefrontal cortex, precuneus and PCC, IPS, and M/STG, meanwhile, and decreased in the amygdala. These findings demonstrate that distancing from aversive social cues modulates amygdala activity via engagement of networks implicated in social perception, perspective-taking, and attentional allocation.

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Koenigsberg, H. W., Fan, J., Ochsner, K. N., Liu, X., Guise, K., Pizzarello, S., Dorantes, C., Tecuta, L., Guerreri, S., Goodman, M., New, A., Flory, J., & Siever, L. J.
Affiliations
  • James J. Peters VA Medical Center (US)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • University of Florida (US)
Corresponding author
Koenigsberg, Harold W.
Venue
Neuropsychologia
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-05
Volume
48
Issue
6
Pages
1813-1822
ISSN
0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2144338224
Cited by
197
References
73
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FWCI
8.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (RO1 MH077813)
  • National Center for Research Resources (MH076137)
  • National Institutes of Health for the Mount Sinai General Clinical Research Center (5MO1 RR00071)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
distancing, cognitive reappraisal, emotion regulation, negative emotions, social conditions, amygdala, precuneus, posterior cingulate cortex, intraparietal sulcus, medial prefrontal cortex, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, perspective taking, social perception, neural correlates
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Distance Perception, Emotions, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Regression Analysis, Social Perception, Young Adult

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