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

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1813-1822

  Koenigsberg, Harold W ^a,b   Fan, Jin ^a   Ochsner, Kevin N ^c   Liu, Xun ^a   Guise, Kevin ^a   Pizzarello, Scott ^d   Dorantes, Christine ^a   Tecuta, Lucia ^a   Guerreri, Stephanie ^a   Goodman, Marianne ^a,b   New, Antonia ^a   Flory, Janine ^a   Siever, Larry J ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive reappraisal; Emotion; Emotion regulation; Emotional distancing; FMRI; Social cognitive neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TELENCEPHALON;

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;

EID: 77952549824     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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