Age-related differences in functional connectivity during cognitive emotion regulation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Successful emotion regulation partly depends on our capacity to modulate emotional responses through the use of cognitive strategies. Age may affect the strategies employed most often; thus, we examined younger and older adults' neural network connectivity when employing two different strategies: cognitive reappraisal and selective attention.

Method

The current study used psychophysiological interaction analyses to examine functional connectivity with a region of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) because it is a core part of an emotion regulation network showing relative structural preservation with age.

Results

Functional connectivity between ACC and prefrontal cortex (PFC) was greater for reappraisal relative to selective attention and passive viewing condi

SUBMITTER: Allard ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4296140 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature