Amygdala-frontal connectivity during emotion regulation.

By S. Banks, Kamryn T. Eddy, Mike Angstadt, Pradeep J. Nathan, K. Phan. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2007

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Successful control of affect partly depends on the capacity to modulate negative emotional responses through the use of cognitive strategies (i.e., reappraisal). Recent studies suggest the involvement of frontal cortical regions in the modulation of amygdala reactivity and the mediation of effective emotion regulation. However, within-subject inter-regional connectivity between amygdala and prefrontal cortex in the context of affect regulation is unknown. Here, using psychophysiological interaction analyses of functional magnetic resonance imaging data, we show that activity in specific areas of the frontal cortex (dorsolateral, dorsal medial, anterior cingulate, orbital) covaries with amygdala activity and that this functional connectivity is dependent on the reappraisal task. Moreover, strength of amygdala coupling with orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex predicts the extent of attenuation of negative affect following reappraisal. These findings highlight the importance of functional connectivity within limbic-frontal circuitry during emotion regulation.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Mindful emotion regulation: An integrative review. (2009, background): “Strength of this connection may predict any decreases in negative emotion following the use of cognitive ER strategies (Banks et al., 2007).”
The evolution of the cognitive model of depression and its neurobiological correlates. (2008, background): “Banks and colleagues (58) found that the reduced amygdala coupling with the orbitofrontal cortex and the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex predicts the extent of attenuation of negative affect following reappraisal.”
How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective (2011, neutral): “When individuals regulate their emotions, the amygdala is thought to be down-regulated by the vmPFC and hippocampus (Banks et al., 2007; Davidson et al., 2000; Milad, Rauch, Pitman, & Quirk, 2006), both of which have extensive connections with the amygdala.”
The structural and functional connectivity of the amygdala: From normal emotion to pathological anxiety (2011, methodology): “positively correlated with the self-reported effectiveness of emotion regulation [34].”
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The Development of Human Amygdala Functional Connectivity at Rest from 4 to 23 Years: a cross-sectional study (2014, neutral): “, 2012), and the strength of these functional connections has predicted emotional behaviors of healthy adults (Banks et al., 2007; Lee et al., 2012).”