Self-Positivity or Self-Negativity as a Function of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex.

ABSTRACT: Self and emotions are key motivational factors of a person strivings for health and well-being. Understanding neural mechanisms supporting the relationship between these factors bear far-reaching implications for mental health disorders. Recent work indicates a substantial overlap between self-relevant and emotion information processing and has proposed the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) as one shared neural signature. However, the precise cognitive and neural mechanisms represented by the MPFC in investigations of self- and emotion-related processing are largely unknown. Here we examined whether the neural underpinnings of self-related processing in the MPFC link to positive or negative emotions. We collected fMRI data to test the distinct and shared neural circuits of self- and emotion-

SUBMITTER: Yankouskaya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7922957 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature