Processing of Emotions in Functional Movement Disorder: An Exploratory fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Affective dysregulation and impaired cognitive control are implicated in the pathology of functional neurological disorders (FNDs). However, voluntary regulation of emotions has seldom been researched in this group of patients. We hypothesized that patients with FNDs use inefficient voluntary emotion regulation strategies and regulate emotional reactions via increased motor activation. Methods: Fifteen patients with functional movement disorder (FMD) and fifteen healthy subjects matched by age, sex, and education underwent an emotion regulation task in fMRI. For stimuli, we used neutral and negative pictures from the International Affective Picture System. There was no restriction on their emotion regulation strategy. Both patients and healthy subjects were asked

SUBMITTER: Sojka P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6703143 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature