Neural substrates for voluntary suppression of negative affect: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

• Published in: Biological psychiatry (1969) Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 210 - 219
• Main Authors: Phan, K. Luan, Fitzgerald, Daniel A., Nathan, Pradeep J., Moore, Gregory J., Uhde, Thomas W., Tancer, Manuel E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.02.2005; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adult; Affectivity. Emotion; Amygdala; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - blood supply; Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping; cognition; emotion; emotion regulation; Emotions - physiology; Female; fMRI; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Neural Inhibition - physiology; Oxygen - blood; Personality. Affectivity; Photic Stimulation - methods; prefrontal cortex; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; emotion regulation; fMRI; emotion; Amygdala; cognition; prefrontal cortex; Human; Affect affectivity; Healthy subject; Voluntary control; Central nervous system; Basal ganglion; Functional analysis; Emotion emotionality; Prefrontal cortex; Experimental study; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Encephalon; Acquisition process; Acquired experience

Successful control of affect partly depends on the capacity to modulate negative emotional responses through the use of cognitive strategies. Although the capacity to regulate emotions is critical to mental well-being, its neural substrates remain unclear. We used functional magnetic resonance imagi...