Frontal brain asymmetry, childhood maltreatment, and low-grade inflammation at midlife.

ABSTRACT: Frontal EEG asymmetry is thought to reflect variations in affective style, such that greater relative right frontal activity at rest predicts enhanced emotional responding to threatening or negative stimuli, and risk of depression and anxiety disorders. A diathesis-stress model has been proposed to explain how this neuro-affective style might predispose to psychopathology, with greater right frontal activity being a vulnerability factor especially under stressful conditions. Less is known about the extent to which greater relative right frontal activity at rest might be associated with or be a diathesis for deleterious physical health outcomes. The present study examined the association between resting frontal EEG asymmetry and systemic, low-grade inflammation and tested the diathesis-stre

SUBMITTER: Hostinar CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5289285 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature