Emotion regulation

…involved in cognitive control and emotion regulation.

Ralph Adolphs explains how the brain creates emotions including fear, joy, and awe, and discusses evidence-based approaches to emotion regulation. The episode connects neural mechanisms with attention, decision-making, and bodily state.

…memory retrieval and alterations in emotion regulation processes that occur in healthy ageing, we aimed to examine the effect of arousal on memory in young and old adults. Our findings indicate that both gr

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

Emotion regulation is essential for successful adaptation to a changing environment, and impairments in this capacity are strongly associated with psychopathology. Despite an extensive pool of existing literature, most investigations on specific strategies of emotion regulation have generally been limited to subjective reports of emotional experience. Effects on psychophysiology have been examined with less rigour and coherence, thus limiting a comprehensive understanding of the different regulation mechanisms. In this study, 61 healthy undergraduate students took part in an emotion regulation

…neural responses associated with emotion processing and regulation, utilizing a newly developed fMRI movie-watching paradigm. 55 children (6-14 years, 30 female) and 63 young adults (18-30 years, 31 female) watched a 12-minute montage of clips from the movie "Inside Out" (Docter & Del Carmen, 2015) dur

Friendships positively support healthy socioemotional and cognitive development. Research indicates that friendships often form between people with similar demographic and behavioral characteristics. Understanding and sharing thoughts, feelings and perceptions are essential to a friendship. Such processes are linked to brain activity and structures of the corticolimbic network (CLN), which is associated with perspective-taking, emotion processing and regulation. This study aims to investigate neural and behavioral similarities between friend dyads. T1-neuroimaging, neurophysiological and behav

People are confronted every day with internal or external stimuli that can elicit emotions. In order to avoid negative ones, or to pursue individual aims, emotions are often regulated. The available emotion regulation strategies have been previously described as efficient or inefficient, but many studies highlighted that the strategies’ efficiency may be influenced by some different aspects such as personality. In this project, the efficiency of several strategies (e.g., reappraisal, suppression, distraction, …) has been studied according to personality profiles, by using the Big Five personal

The ability to effectively regulate emotions is a fundamental skill related to physical and psychological health. In this talk, I will present behavioral and fMRI data from several different studies that examined cognitive reappraisal, acceptance, and suppression emotion regulation strategies in healthy controls participants and in the context of randomized trials of cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness- based stress reduction, and aerobic exercise as interventions for adults with anxiety disorders. We will also examine the implementation of different types of functional connectivity anal