TY - JOUR
T1 - Regional gray matter density associated with emotional conflict resolution
T2 - Evidence from voxel-based morphometry
AU - Deng, Z.
AU - Wei, D.
AU - Xue, S.
AU - Du, X.
AU - Hitchman, G.
AU - Qiu, J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 31070900 ; 30800293 ; 30970892 ; 31170983 ), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (2011) by the Ministry of Education, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities ( SWU1209101 ), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project ( 2012M510098 ), the Research Funds for Southwest University ( SWU09103 ), the Key Discipline Fund of National 211 Project ( NSKD11007 ), and the postgraduate Innovation Foundation of Science and Technology of Southwest University ( kb2011002 ).
PY - 2014/9/5
Y1 - 2014/9/5
N2 - Successful emotion regulation is a fundamental prerequisite for well-being and dysregulation may lead to psychopathology. The ability to inhibit spontaneous emotions while behaving in accordance with desired goals is an important dimension of emotion regulation and can be measured using emotional conflict resolution tasks. Few studies have investigated the gray matter correlates underlying successful emotional conflict resolution at the whole-brain level. We had 190 adults complete an emotional conflict resolution task (face-word task) and examined the brain regions significantly correlated with successful emotional conflict resolution using voxel-based morphometry. We found successful emotional conflict resolution was associated with increased regional gray matter density in widely distributed brain regions. These regions included the dorsal anterior cingulate/dorsal medial prefrontal cortex, ventral medial prefrontal cortex, supplementary motor area, amygdala, ventral striatum, precuneus, posterior cingulate cortex, inferior parietal lobule, superior temporal gyrus and fusiform face area. Together, our results indicate that individual differences in emotional conflict resolution ability may be attributed to regional structural differences across widely distributed brain regions.
AB - Successful emotion regulation is a fundamental prerequisite for well-being and dysregulation may lead to psychopathology. The ability to inhibit spontaneous emotions while behaving in accordance with desired goals is an important dimension of emotion regulation and can be measured using emotional conflict resolution tasks. Few studies have investigated the gray matter correlates underlying successful emotional conflict resolution at the whole-brain level. We had 190 adults complete an emotional conflict resolution task (face-word task) and examined the brain regions significantly correlated with successful emotional conflict resolution using voxel-based morphometry. We found successful emotional conflict resolution was associated with increased regional gray matter density in widely distributed brain regions. These regions included the dorsal anterior cingulate/dorsal medial prefrontal cortex, ventral medial prefrontal cortex, supplementary motor area, amygdala, ventral striatum, precuneus, posterior cingulate cortex, inferior parietal lobule, superior temporal gyrus and fusiform face area. Together, our results indicate that individual differences in emotional conflict resolution ability may be attributed to regional structural differences across widely distributed brain regions.
KW - Emotion regulation
KW - Emotional conflict resolution
KW - Gray matter density
KW - Individual differences
KW - Voxel-based morphometry
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.06.040
DO - 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.06.040
M3 - Article
C2 - 24976515
AN - SCOPUS:84904430681
SN - 0306-4522
VL - 275
SP - 500
EP - 507
JO - Neuroscience
JF - Neuroscience
ER -