SynthesisHuman brain mapping2020
Meta-analytic evidence for a joint neural mechanism underlying response inhibition and state anger.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Anger and Aggression.Aggressive behavior · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of task complexity on the neural network for response inhibition: An ALE meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Neural underpinnings of response inhibition in substance use disorders: weak meta-analytic evidence for a widely used construct.Psychopharmacology · 2024Pooled it
- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Task-based fMRI Studies in Youths With Irritability.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- A meta-analysis on shared and distinct neural correlates of the decision-making underlying altruistic and retaliatory punishment.Human brain mapping · 2021Pooled it
- Meta-analytic evidence for a joint neural mechanism underlying response inhibition and state anger.Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
- Anger and substance abuse: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)Pooled it
- How far does the moral dilemma go? Neural and autonomic correlates contribute to explain emotional conflict and empathy behavior in Sophie's Choice.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of two computer-aided emotion regulation strategies on risky driving behaviors in a virtual environment.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The dark sides of the brain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies on trait aggressionAggression and violent behavior · 2025Article
- Salience and default networks predict borderline personality traits and affective symptoms: a dynamic functional connectivity analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Here Comes Revenge: Peer Victimization Relates to Neural and Behavioral Responses to Social Exclusion.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Brain imaging of a gamified cognitive flexibility task in young and older adults.Brain imaging and behavior · 2024Article
- Clarifying the longitudinal factor structure, temporal stability, and construct validity of Go/No-Go task-related neural activation across adolescence and young adulthood.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- Convergent functional change of frontoparietal network in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a voxel-based meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Sexual Orientation Affects Neural Responses to Subtle Social Aggression Signals.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Divergent auditory activation in relation to inhibition task performance in children and adults.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- The right inferior frontal gyrus as pivotal node and effective regulator of the basal ganglia-thalamocortical response inhibition circuit.Psychoradiology · 2023Article
- Gender differences in behavioral inhibitory control under evoked acute stress: An event-related potential study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Neurobehavioral maturation of motor response inhibition in adolescence - A narrative review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Although anger may weaken response inhibition (RI) by allowing outbursts to bypass deliberate processing, it is equally likely that RI deficits precipitate a state of anger (SA). In adolescents, for instance, anger occurs more frequently and often leads to escalating aggressive behaviors. Even though RI is considered a key component in explaining individual differences in SA expression, the neural overlap between SA and RI remains elusive. Here, we aimed to meta-analytically revisit and update the neural correlates of motor RI, to determine a consistent neural architecture of SA, and to identify their joint neural network. Considering that inhibitory abilities follow a protracted maturation until early adulthood, we additionally computed RI meta-analyses in youths and adults. Using activation likelihood estimation, we calculated twelve meta-analyses across 157 RI and 39 SA experiments on healthy individuals. Consistent with previous findings, RI was associated with a broad frontoparietal network including the anterior insula/inferior frontal gyrus (aI/IFG), premotor and midcingulate cortices, extending into right temporoparietal areas. Youths showed convergent activity in right midcingulate and medial prefrontal areas, left aI/IFG, and the temporal poles. SA, on the other hand, reliably recruited the right aI/IFG and anterior cingulate cortex. Conjunction analyses between RI and SA yielded a single convergence cluster in the right aI/IFG. While frontoparietal networks and bilateral aI are ubiquitously recruited during RI, the right aI/IFG cluster likely represents a node in a dynamically-adjusting monitoring network that integrates salient information thereby facilitating the execution of goal-directed behaviors under highly unpredictable scenarios.
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