ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2020
Reduced feelings of regret and enhanced fronto-striatal connectivity in elders with long-term Tai Chi experience.
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- Tai Chi, brain activity and psychological outcomes: a systematic scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of different exercise types on balance function in healthy older adults and Parkinson's patients: a systematic review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- The neurobiological effects of mind-body exercise: a systematic review and meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Chronic effects of different exercise types on brain activity in healthy older adults and those with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
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- The effects of sleep deprivation on risky decision making.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
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- Effect of Tai Chi on Young Adults with Subthreshold Depression via a Stress-Reward Complex: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Sports medicine - open · 2023Article
- Tai Chi exercise improves working memory capacity and emotion regulation ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The neural mechanisms underlying the modulation of attentional deployment on emotional stability.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Mitigating effects and mechanisms of Tai Chi on mild cognitive impairment in the elderly.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
The current study investigates how long-term Tai Chi experience affects the neural and emotional response to regret in elders. Participants perform the sequential risk-taking task while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. In the task, participants opened a series of boxes consecutively and decided when to stop. Each box contained a reward, except for one which contained a devil. If the devil was revealed, then this served to zero the participant's gain in that trial. Once stopped, participant's gains and missed chances were revealed. Behaviorally, the Tai Chi group showed less regret, reduced risk taking, higher levels of nonjudgment of inner experience and less emotional sensitivity to outcome. fMRI results showed that the Tai Chi group demonstrated stronger fronto-striatal functional connectivity in trials with numerous missed chances. The nonjudgment of inner experience mediated the impact of fronto-striatal functional connectivity on Tai Chi practitioners' emotional sensitivity to outcome. These results highlight that long-term Tai Chi exercise may be effective in alleviating feelings of regret in elders by promoting reduced judgment of inner experience and enhanced emotion regulation through the strengthening of fronto-striatal functional connectivity.
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