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The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions

Encouraging patients to use cognitive reappraisal constitutes the core of modern psychotherapeutic approaches. However, evidence for specific neural correlates of the capacity for cognitive reappraisal, which is a necessary prerequisite for the effective implementation of cognitive reappraisal in ev...

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Autores principales: Papousek, Ilona, Weiss, Elisabeth M., Perchtold, Corinna M., Weber, Hannelore, de Assunção, Vera Loureiro, Schulter, Günter, Lackner, Helmut K., Fink, Andreas
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5408052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26935554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11682-016-9537-2
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author Papousek, Ilona
Weiss, Elisabeth M.
Perchtold, Corinna M.
Weber, Hannelore
de Assunção, Vera Loureiro
Schulter, Günter
Lackner, Helmut K.
Fink, Andreas
author_facet Papousek, Ilona
Weiss, Elisabeth M.
Perchtold, Corinna M.
Weber, Hannelore
de Assunção, Vera Loureiro
Schulter, Günter
Lackner, Helmut K.
Fink, Andreas
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description Encouraging patients to use cognitive reappraisal constitutes the core of modern psychotherapeutic approaches. However, evidence for specific neural correlates of the capacity for cognitive reappraisal, which is a necessary prerequisite for the effective implementation of cognitive reappraisal in everyday life, has been sparse to date. In the present study, the capacity for cognitive reappraisal was studied in terms of the participants’ inventiveness in generating alternative appraisals of anger-evoking events, and was correlated with frontal EEG alpha asymmetry recorded while the participants were generating reappraisals as well as during a common creative idea generation task. During cognitive reappraisal efforts, individuals higher on the capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals showed more left-lateralized activity in lateral prefrontal cortex, specifically in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex extending toward the frontal pole. This effect was observed independently from the activation during novel idea generation without emotional component, indicating that specific demands are implicated in the generation of reappraisals of emotional events. Taken together, the results indicate that individuals higher on the capacity for cognitive reappraisal are more capable or more prone to recruit appropriate brain regions when the situation demands coming up with alternative appraisals of stressful events. The findings may stimulate the development of more individually targeted interventions.
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spelling pubmed-54080522017-05-15 The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions Papousek, Ilona Weiss, Elisabeth M. Perchtold, Corinna M. Weber, Hannelore de Assunção, Vera Loureiro Schulter, Günter Lackner, Helmut K. Fink, Andreas Brain Imaging Behav Original Research Encouraging patients to use cognitive reappraisal constitutes the core of modern psychotherapeutic approaches. However, evidence for specific neural correlates of the capacity for cognitive reappraisal, which is a necessary prerequisite for the effective implementation of cognitive reappraisal in everyday life, has been sparse to date. In the present study, the capacity for cognitive reappraisal was studied in terms of the participants’ inventiveness in generating alternative appraisals of anger-evoking events, and was correlated with frontal EEG alpha asymmetry recorded while the participants were generating reappraisals as well as during a common creative idea generation task. During cognitive reappraisal efforts, individuals higher on the capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals showed more left-lateralized activity in lateral prefrontal cortex, specifically in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex extending toward the frontal pole. This effect was observed independently from the activation during novel idea generation without emotional component, indicating that specific demands are implicated in the generation of reappraisals of emotional events. Taken together, the results indicate that individuals higher on the capacity for cognitive reappraisal are more capable or more prone to recruit appropriate brain regions when the situation demands coming up with alternative appraisals of stressful events. The findings may stimulate the development of more individually targeted interventions. Springer US 2016-03-02 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5408052/ /pubmed/26935554 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11682-016-9537-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Papousek, Ilona
Weiss, Elisabeth M.
Perchtold, Corinna M.
Weber, Hannelore
de Assunção, Vera Loureiro
Schulter, Günter
Lackner, Helmut K.
Fink, Andreas
The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
title The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
title_full The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
title_fullStr The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
title_full_unstemmed The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
title_short The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
title_sort capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5408052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26935554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11682-016-9537-2
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