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Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries
Frontal EEG alpha band asymmetries have been linked to affective processing in healthy individuals and affective disorders. As stress provides a strong source of negative affect, the present study investigated how acute stress affects frontal EEG alpha asymmetries. Continuous EEG data were acquired...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8850739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35198894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.103841 |
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author | Berretz, Gesa Packheiser, Julian Wolf, Oliver T. Ocklenburg, Sebastian |
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description | Frontal EEG alpha band asymmetries have been linked to affective processing in healthy individuals and affective disorders. As stress provides a strong source of negative affect, the present study investigated how acute stress affects frontal EEG alpha asymmetries. Continuous EEG data were acquired from 51 healthy adult participants during stress induction with the Trier Social Stress Test. EEG data were also collected during a non-stressful control condition. Furthermore, EEG resting state data were acquired after both conditions. Under stress, participants showed stronger left hemispheric activation over frontal electrodes as well as reduced left-hemispheric activation over occipital electrodes compared to the control condition. Our results are in line with predictions of the asymmetric inhibition model which postulates that the left prefrontal cortex inhibits negative distractors. Moreover, the results support the capability model of emotional regulation which states that frontal asymmetries during emotional challenge are more pronounced compared to asymmetries during rest. |
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spelling | pubmed-88507392022-02-22 Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries Berretz, Gesa Packheiser, Julian Wolf, Oliver T. Ocklenburg, Sebastian iScience Article Frontal EEG alpha band asymmetries have been linked to affective processing in healthy individuals and affective disorders. As stress provides a strong source of negative affect, the present study investigated how acute stress affects frontal EEG alpha asymmetries. Continuous EEG data were acquired from 51 healthy adult participants during stress induction with the Trier Social Stress Test. EEG data were also collected during a non-stressful control condition. Furthermore, EEG resting state data were acquired after both conditions. Under stress, participants showed stronger left hemispheric activation over frontal electrodes as well as reduced left-hemispheric activation over occipital electrodes compared to the control condition. Our results are in line with predictions of the asymmetric inhibition model which postulates that the left prefrontal cortex inhibits negative distractors. Moreover, the results support the capability model of emotional regulation which states that frontal asymmetries during emotional challenge are more pronounced compared to asymmetries during rest. Elsevier 2022-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8850739/ /pubmed/35198894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.103841 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Berretz, Gesa Packheiser, Julian Wolf, Oliver T. Ocklenburg, Sebastian Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries |
title | Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries |
title_full | Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries |
title_fullStr | Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries |
title_full_unstemmed | Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries |
title_short | Acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries |
title_sort | acute stress increases left hemispheric activity measured via changes in frontal alpha asymmetries |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8850739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35198894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.103841 |
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