ArticleCerebellum (London, England)2009
The cerebellum in emotion regulation: a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study.
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96 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation affect explicit but not implicit emotion regulation: a meta-analysis.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2023Pooled it
- Does non-invasive brain stimulation modulate emotional stress reactivity?Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Literature Review of Neuroimaging of Psychopathic Traits.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Female Cerebellum Seems Sociable; An iTBS Investigation.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Trial
- Regional brain glucose uptake distinguishes suicide attempters from non-attempters in major depression.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research · 2013Trial
- High-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to the cerebellum and implicit processing of happy facial expressions.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2009Trial
- Target Interpretability and Functional Mapping of rTMS and Theta-Burst Stimulation of the Cerebellar Vermis and Midline Cerebellum: A Scoping Review.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Article
- Apparent Cerebellar Volumetric Stabilization and Emergent Cortical Hyperexcitability During Long-Acting Injectable Aripiprazole Maintenance in Adolescent Bipolar Disorder.Pediatric reports · 2026Article
- Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Induces a Predominant Motor Rather than Perceptive Contribution to Emotion Facial Expression Processing.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Cerebellar Time and Relative Time: A Comparator-Based Dynamical Timing Model and its Relevance to Psychopathology and Therapies.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Review
- Unraveling trauma memory: Differential functional connectivity profiles of anterior and posterior hippocampus in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype.Neuroimage. Reports · 2025Article
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- Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Functional cerebello-cortico-limbic connectivity in aggression: A resting-state 7T fMRI study in healthy volunteers.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Role of the Cerebellum in the Construction of Functional and Geometrical Spaces.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Review
- Cerebellar Neurostimulation for Boosting Social and Affective Functions: Implications for the Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxia Patients.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Review
- The computational and neural substrates of individual differences in impulsivity under loss framework.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Re-examining the Mysterious Role of the Cerebellum in Pain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Review
- The Predictive Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in the Processing of Dynamic Emotions.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Article
- Neurorestorative effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on social prediction of adolescents and young adults with congenital cerebellar malformations.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2024Article
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Abstract
Several lines of evidence suggest that the cerebellum may play a role in the regulation of emotion. The aim of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that inhibition of cerebellar function using slow repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) would lead to increased negative mood as a result of impaired emotion regulation. In a randomized counterbalanced within-subjects design, 12 healthy young right-handed volunteers received 20 min of cerebellar, occipital, or sham 1 Hz rTMS on three separate days. Mood state inventories were acquired prior to and immediately after rTMS and after an emotion regulation task (ERT). In the ERT, participants were instructed to either look at aversive and neutral scenes, or to suppress the negative feelings experienced while watching aversive scenes during which the electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. Results showing no changes in baseline-corrected mood were observed immediately after rTMS. However, significant increases in baseline-corrected negative mood following the ERT were reported after cerebellar rTMS exclusively. No effects on the EEG during the ERT were observed. These findings provide support for the view that the cerebellum is implicated in the regulation of emotion and mood, and concur with evidence of cerebellar abnormalities observed in disorders associated with emotion dysregulation. In order to clarify the underlying biological mechanisms involved, more research is needed.
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