Interaction of irritability and anxiety on emotional responding and emotion regulation: a functional MRI study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Irritability and anxiety frequently co-occur in pediatric populations. Studies separately looking at the neural correlates of these symptoms have identified engagement of similar neural systems - particularly those implicated in emotional processing. Both irritability and anxiety can be considered negative valence emotional states that might relate to emotion dysregulation. However, previous work has not examined the neural responding during the performance of an emotion regulation task as a function of interaction between irritability and anxiety simultaneously.

Methods

This fMRI study involved 155 participants (90 with significant psychopathologies and 92 male) who performed the Affective Stroop Task, designed to engage emotion regulation as a function of

SUBMITTER: Crum KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7759590 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature