The effects of left DLPFC tDCS on emotion regulation, biased attention, and emotional reactivity to negative content
| Autor: | Joel A. Howell, Welber Marinovic, Patrick J.F. Clarke, Bram Van Bockstaele, Lies Notebaert, Mark Boyes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Cognitive Neuroscience medicine.medical_treatment Emotions Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation Audiology Attentional bias Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology Attentional Bias 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Biased Attention 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Reactivity (psychology) Neurostimulation Transcranial direct-current stimulation 05 social sciences Emotional Regulation Negative mood Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 20:1323-1335 |
| ISSN: | 1531-135X 1530-7026 |
| Popis: | The potentiation of neural activity in lateral prefrontal regions via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can reduce patterns of biased attention for threat and may facilitate intentional emotion regulation. The current study sought to determine whether left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tDCS, in combination with intentional down-regulation of emotional responses would reduce negative appraisals of aversive content during emotional regulation (assessed during online tDCS), reduce patterns of biased attention and attention bias variability (assessed offline), and attenuate spontaneous (uninstructed) emotional reactivity to negative content (assessed offline) above tDCS or intentional down-regulation of emotions in isolation. Healthy participants (n = 116) were allocated to one of four experimental conditions involving either active or sham tDCS, combined with an either a down-regulate or maintain emotion regulation task. Attention bias/bias variability was assessed with an attentional probe task, and emotional reactivity was assessed in a negative video viewing task. tDCS did not affect the appraisals of negative stimuli during emotion regulation, and there were no effects on attention bias/bias variability. However, tDCS did attenuate emotional reactivity. Those receiving active stimulation showed smaller elevations in negative mood in response to viewing aversive video content compared with sham. The present findings are consistent with the potential of left frontal tDCS to attenuate negative emotional reactions to aversive content but provide no support for tDCS enhancement of emotion regulation, nor its impact on attention bias or attention bias variability. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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