Brain networks underlying brief cognitive interventions to reduce anxiety
Charlotte Cuffley, Julia Rohan, Daniel Mitchell, Jascha Achterberg, Anna Bevan, Tim Dalgleish, John Duncan · FENS Forum 2024
Anxiety is an emotional state that orients cognition towards potential future threat. Despite serving a useful function, this can be unpleasant and pathological when experienced chronically, or in inappropriate situations. Simple strategies for emotion regulation, such as self-distancing and attention-focusing can reduce perceived negative emotion, but the neural mechanisms are unclear. This study aims to investigate brain responses underlying the efficacy of these interventions, by combining self-reported anxiety measures and fMRI data.Prior to scanning, personalised, anxiety-provoking scenar
ePoster · Neuroscience