ArticleBrain imaging and behavior2017
The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions.
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- Humor creation during efforts to find humorous cognitive reappraisals of threatening situations.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
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- Resting-state BOLD temporal variability in sensorimotor and salience networks underlies trait emotional intelligence and explains differences in emotion regulation strategies.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries.iScience · 2022Article
- The antidepressant effect of cognitive reappraisal training on individuals cognitively vulnerable to depression: Could cognitive bias be modified through the prefrontal-amygdala circuits?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Failure to reappraise: Malevolent creativity is linked to revenge ideation and impaired reappraisal inventiveness in the face of stressful, anger-eliciting events.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2021Article
- fMRI Neurofeedback-Enhanced Cognitive Reappraisal Training in Depression: A Double-Blind Comparison of Left and Right vlPFC Regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- More habitual physical activity is linked to the use of specific, more adaptive cognitive reappraisal strategies in dealing with stressful events.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2020Article
- Individual Differences in Negative Emotion Differentiation Predict Resting-State Spontaneous Emotional Regulatory Processes.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The Functional Role of Individual Alpha-Based Frontal Asymmetry in the Processing of Fearful Faces.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Encouraging patients to use cognitive reappraisal constitutes the core of modern psychotherapeutic approaches. However, evidence for specific neural correlates of the capacity for cognitive reappraisal, which is a necessary prerequisite for the effective implementation of cognitive reappraisal in everyday life, has been sparse to date. In the present study, the capacity for cognitive reappraisal was studied in terms of the participants' inventiveness in generating alternative appraisals of anger-evoking events, and was correlated with frontal EEG alpha asymmetry recorded while the participants were generating reappraisals as well as during a common creative idea generation task. During cognitive reappraisal efforts, individuals higher on the capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals showed more left-lateralized activity in lateral prefrontal cortex, specifically in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex extending toward the frontal pole. This effect was observed independently from the activation during novel idea generation without emotional component, indicating that specific demands are implicated in the generation of reappraisals of emotional events. Taken together, the results indicate that individuals higher on the capacity for cognitive reappraisal are more capable or more prone to recruit appropriate brain regions when the situation demands coming up with alternative appraisals of stressful events. The findings may stimulate the development of more individually targeted interventions.
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