Hemodynamic correlates of emotion regulation in frontal lobe epilepsy patients and healthy participants.

ABSTRACT: The ability to regulate emotions is indispensable for maintaining psychological health. It heavily relies on frontal lobe functions which are disrupted in frontal lobe epilepsy. Accordingly, emotional dysregulation and use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies have been reported in frontal lobe epilepsy patients. Therefore, it is of clinical and scientific interest to investigate emotion regulation in frontal lobe epilepsy. We studied neural correlates of upregulating and downregulating emotions toward aversive pictures through reappraisal in 18 frontal lobe epilepsy patients and 17 healthy controls using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Patients tended to report more difficulties with impulse control than controls. On the neural level, patients had diminished activity during

SUBMITTER: Benzait A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9921231 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature