Trait self-consciousness predicts amygdala activation and its functional brain connectivity during emotional suppression: an fMRI analysis.

ABSTRACT: The present functional magnetic resonance imaging study investigated how trait neuroticism and its heterogeneous subdimensions are related to the emotional consequences and neural underpinnings of emotion regulation. Two levels of neuroticism assessments were conducted with 47 female subjects, who were required to attend to, suppress emotion displays to, or cognitively reappraise the meanings of negative images. The results showed reduced emotional experience and bilateral amygdala activation during reappraisal, and this regulation effect is unaffected by individual differences in neuroticism and its subdimensions. By contrast, the emotion downregulation effect of suppression in the right amygdala is compromised with increasing self-consciousness but not overall neuroticism dimension. This

SUBMITTER: Chen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5428331 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature