‘Just can’t hide it’: a behavioral and lesion study on emotional response modulation after right prefrontal damage

Salas, Christian; Castro, Osvaldo Agripino de; Yuen, Kenneth S. L.; Radovic, Darinka; d’Avossa, Giovanni; Turnbull, Oliver

doi:10.1093/scan/nsw075

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“…There is considerable evidence showing that emotion regulation in general is related to executive functioning (EF), such that higher EF is associated with more successful expressive suppression (Gyurak et al, 2012;Schmeichel et al, 2008) and reappraisal (Schmeichel & Tang, 2015). Consistent with these associations, the networks that subserve these emotion regulation strategies overlap with EF networks, involving multiple regions of the prefrontal cortex, evidenced by both imaging and lesion studies (Abler et al, 2008;Giuliani et al, 2011;Hermann et al, 2014;Ohira et al, 2006;Salas et al, 2016).…”

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Naturally Occurring Expressive Suppression is Associated with Lapses in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Suchy

Niermeyer

Franchow

et al. 2019

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Objectives: Expressive suppression (i.e., effortful regulation of overt affect) has a deleterious impact on executive functioning (EF). This relationship has potential ramifications for daily functioning, especially among older adults, because a close relationship exists between EF and functional independence. However, past research has not directly examined whether expressive suppression impacts instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). The present study examined this association among older adults. Methods: One hundred ten community-dwelling older adults completed a self-report measure of acute (past 24 hr) and chronic (past 2 weeks) expressive suppression, a timed test of IADL, and the Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale as a measure of EF. Results: High chronic expressive suppression was related to slow IADL performance beyond covariates (age, IQ, depression), but only for individuals with low EF. High acute expressive suppression was associated with lower accuracy on IADL tasks beyond covariates (IQ, depression), but this association was fully explained by EF. Conclusions: The current results suggest that expressive suppression is associated with less efficient and more error-prone IADL performance. EF fully accounted for the relationship between acute expressive suppression and IADL performance, showing that suppression is a risk factor for both poorer EF performance and functional lapses in daily life. Furthermore, individuals with weaker EF may be particularly vulnerable to the effect of chronic expressive suppression. (JINS, 2019, 25, 718–728)

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Naturally Occurring Expressive Suppression is Associated with Lapses in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

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Niermeyer

Franchow

et al. 2019

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“…Finally, a recent study on patients with brain tumours (Campanella et al ., ) did not find effects related to hemispheric lateralization; moreover, this study revealed that temporal and insular lesions, but not frontal ones, affected emotion recognition; frontal lesions were instead associated with alexithymia symptoms, measured by a clinical questionnaire. Concerning emotion regulation, recent studies report similar impairments in emotional reappraisal in right and left brain‐damaged patients compared to healthy controls (Salas, Gross, & Turnbull, ), but also difficulties in positive emotion suppression in patients with right frontal damage and, particularly, right insula lesions (Salas et al ., ).…”

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Consequences of brain tumour resection on emotion recognition

Mattavelli

Pisoni

Casarotti

et al. 2017

Journal of Neuropsychology

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Emotion processing impairments are common in patients undergoing brain surgery for fronto-temporal tumour resection, with potential consequences on social interactions. However, evidence is controversial concerning side and site of lesions causing such deficits. This study investigates visual and auditory emotion recognition in brain tumour patients with the aim of clarifying which lesion sites are related to impairments in emotion processing from different modalities. Thirty-four patients were evaluated, before and after surgery, on facial expression and emotional prosody recognition; voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) analyses were performed on patients' post-surgery MRI images. Results showed that patients' performance decreased after surgery in both visual and auditory modalities, but, in general, recovered 3 months after surgery. In facial expression recognition, left brain-damaged patients showed greater post-surgery deterioration than right brain-damaged ones, whose performance specifically decreased for sadness and fear. VLSM analysis revealed two segregated areas in the left hemisphere accounting for post-surgery scores for happy (fronto-temporo-insular region) and surprised (middle frontal gyrus and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus) facial expressions. Our findings demonstrate that surgical removal of tumours in the fronto-temporal region produces impairment in facial emotion recognition with an overall recovery at 3 months, suggesting a partially different representation of positive and negative emotions in the left and right hemispheres for visually - but not auditory - presented emotions; moreover, we show that deficits in specific expression recognition are associated with discrete lesion locations.

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“…Indeed, it has been shown that expressing anger is related to relatively greater left, whereas controlling anger is related to relatively greater right, frontal ac-tivity (Hewig et al, 2004). The role of the right PFC in affect regulation is further supported by lesion (e.g., Salas et al, 2016) and neuroimaging (for review, see Ochsner et al, 2012) studies.…”

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EEG Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Dream Affect: Alpha Oscillations over the Right Frontal Cortex during REM Sleep and Presleep Wakefulness Predict Anger in REM Sleep Dreams

2019

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Affective experiences are central not only to our waking life but also to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep dreams. Despite our increasing understanding of the neural correlates of dreaming, we know little about the neural correlates of dream affect. Frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) is considered a marker of affective states and traits as well as affect regulation in the waking state. Here, we explored whether FAA during REM sleep and during evening resting wakefulness is related to affective experiences in REM sleep dreams. EEG recordings were obtained from 17 human participants (7 men) who spent 2 nights in the sleep laboratory. Participants were awakened 5 min after the onset of every REM stage after which they provided a dream report and rated their dream affect. Two-minute preawakening EEG segments were analyzed. Additionally, 8 min of evening presleep and morning postsleep EEG were recorded during resting wakefulness. Mean spectral power in the alpha band (8-13 Hz) and corresponding FAA were calculated over the frontal (F4-F3) sites. Results showed that FAA during REM sleep, and during evening resting wakefulness, predicted ratings of dream anger. This suggests that individuals with greater alpha power in the right frontal hemisphere may be less able to regulate (i.e., inhibit) strong affective states, such as anger, in dreams. Additionally, FAA was positively correlated across wakefulness and REM sleep. Together, these findings imply that FAA may serve as a neural correlate of affect regulation not only in the waking but also in the dreaming state.

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‘Just can’t hide it’: a behavioral and lesion study on emotional response modulation after right prefrontal damage

Cited by 31 publications

References 88 publications

Naturally Occurring Expressive Suppression is Associated with Lapses in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Naturally Occurring Expressive Suppression is Associated with Lapses in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Consequences of brain tumour resection on emotion recognition

EEG Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Dream Affect: Alpha Oscillations over the Right Frontal Cortex during REM Sleep and Presleep Wakefulness Predict Anger in REM Sleep Dreams

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