ArticlePloS one2018
Trait anger modulates neural activity in the fronto-parietal attention network.
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- Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? - a systematic review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of neural, cognitive, and clinical studies of anger and aggression.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Barriers and facilitators of implementing integrated interventions for alcohol misuse and intimate partner violence: A qualitative examination with diverse experts.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- A Connectome-wide Functional Signature of Trait Anger.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Neural correlates of anger expression in patients with PTSD.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- White Matter Correlates of Hostility and Aggression in the Visuospatial Function Network in Patients With Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Cross-Subject EEG Emotion Recognition With Self-Organized Graph Neural Network.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Habenula-prefrontal resting-state connectivity in reactive aggressive men - A pilot study.Neuropharmacology · 2019Article
- Sensory modality affects emotional dimension perception and frontoparietal brain responses.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Anger is considered a unique high-arousal and approach-related negative emotion. The influence of individual differences in trait anger on the processing of visual stimuli is relevant to questions about emotional processing and remains to be explored. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we explored the neural responses to standardized images, selected based on valence and arousal ratings in a group of men with high trait anger compared to those with normative to low anger scores (controls). Results show increased activation in the left-lateralized ventral fronto-parietal attention network to unpleasant images by individuals with high trait anger. There was also a group by arousal interaction in the left thalamus/pulvinar such that individuals with high trait anger had increased pulvinar activation to the high-arousal (versus low arousal) unpleasant images as compared to controls. Thus, individual differences in trait anger in men are associated with brain regions subserving executive attentional and sensory integration during the processing of unpleasant emotional stimuli, particularly to high arousal images.
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