Reduced feelings of regret and enhanced fronto-striatal connectivity in elders with long-term Tai Chi experience.

ABSTRACT: The current study investigates how long-term Tai Chi experience affects the neural and emotional response to regret in elders. Participants perform the sequential risk-taking task while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. In the task, participants opened a series of boxes consecutively and decided when to stop. Each box contained a reward, except for one which contained a devil. If the devil was revealed, then this served to zero the participant's gain in that trial. Once stopped, participant's gains and missed chances were revealed. Behaviorally, the Tai Chi group showed less regret, reduced risk taking, higher levels of nonjudgment of inner experience and less emotional sensitivity to outcome. fMRI results showed that the Tai Chi group demonstrated stronger

SUBMITTER: Liu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7543941 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature