For better or for worse: neural systems supporting the cognitive down- and up-regulation of negative emotion

By Kevin N. Ochsner, Rebecca D. Ray, Jeffrey C. Cooper, Elaine R. Robertson, Sita Chopra, John D. E. Gabrieli, James J. Gross. NeuroImage, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies (2008, positive): “…(for reviews, see Adolphs, 2001; Blakemore et al., 2004; Lane and McRae, 2004) such as when a person makes judgments about the psychological states of another person, or monitors, introspects, or makes inferences about his or her own moment-to-moment feelings (also see Ochsner et al., 2004b).”
Cognitive emotion regulation: a review of theory and scientific findings (2016, positive): “There are a number of different types of reappraisals [27], including those that evoke a sense that the situation will improve with the future, or is not as bad as it first seemed, or is part of the normal range of human experience [28].”
Individual Differences in Marketing Placebo Effects: Evidence from Brain Imaging and Behavioral Experiments (2015, background): “…McGuire, and Kable (2010) (–12/12/–6 and 12/10/–6); for the posterior insula, a region based on the work of Benedetti et al. (2003) on placebo effects (44/–15/4); and for the dmPFC, a region based on a study by Ochsner et al. (2004) on cognitive regulation and emotion reappraisal (–10/50/34).”
Brain mediators of cardiovascular responses to social threat, Part I: Reciprocal dorsal and ventral sub-regions of the medial prefrontal cortex and heart-rate reactivity (2009, background): “Amygdala activity is a prominent correlate of anticipatory anxiety (Nitschke et al., 2009), conditioned fear in anticipation of shock (Phelps et al., 2004), and reported negative emotion in response to affective pictures (Ochsner & Gross, 2008; Ochsner et al., 2004; Phan et al., 2005).”
The development of emotion regulation: an fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in children, adolescents and young adults. (2012, background): “…et al., 2008; Kober et al., 2010), peripheral physiology (Ray et al., 2010), neural indicators of emotional responding (Schaefer et al., 2002; Ochsner et al., 2004; Hajcak and Nieuwenhuis, 2006; Urry et al., 2006; Kim and Hamann, 2007) and economic decisions thought to be influenced by…”
Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress responses (2007, background): “This region of RVPFC was more lateral than the region of RVPFC that correlated with social distress in the previous study (30, 34, ! 4); however both of these regions fell within a functionally similar neural region (BA 47), which has been shown to be involved in inhibitory control and affect regula”
Working in our sleep (2012, background): “Neurophysiological research indicates that self-regulation relies disproportionately on the prefrontal cortex and amygdala regions of the brain (Banks, Eddy, Angstadt, Nathan, & Phan, 2007; Beauregard, Levesque, & Bourgouin, 2001; Chuah et al., 2010; Nilsson et al., 2005; Ochsner et al., 2004).”
The Role of Cognitive Control in Older Adults' Emotional Well-Being (2008, background): “However, regulating emotions requires considerable cognitive effort, even for younger adults (Ochsner et al., 2004).”
The X- and C-Systems: The Neural Basis of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition. (2007, background): “A number of recent studies have looked at intentional attempts at emotion regulation in neuroimaging paradigms (Beauregard, Levesque, Bourgouin, 2001; Levesque et al., 2003; Ochsner et al., 2004; Schaefer et al., 2003; Small et al., 2001).”
Putting Feelings Into Words (2007, positive): “…activations have been widely distributed across prefrontal cortex; however, a number of these studies have found RVLPFC activity during reappraisal (Beauregard, Levesque, & Bourgouin, 2001; Kalisch et al., 2005; Levesque et al., 2003; Phan et al., 2005; Ochsner et al., 2004; Schaefer et al., 2003).”
Deconstructing Reappraisal: Descriptions Preceding Arousing Pictures Modulate the Subsequent Neural Response (2008, background): “the lateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (Urry et al., 2006; Ochsner et al., 2004).”
Math Anxiety (2015, background): “Importantly, this network is known to be involved in the control and reappraisal of negative emotions (e.g., anxiety and worry; Ochsner et al., 2004).”
Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects (2015, background): “, 2011), and leads to lesser activation in emotion-generative brain regions such as the amygdala (Goldin, McRae, Ramel, & Gross, 2008; Kanske, Heissler, Schonfelder, Bongers, & Wessa, 2011; Ochsner & Gross, 2008; Ochsner et al., 2004) and ventral striatum (Staudinger, Erk, Abler, & Walter, 2009).”