Neural correlates of cognitive reappraisal of positive and negative affect in older adults

Halfmann, Kameko; Hedgcock, William; Denburg, Natalie L.

doi:10.1080/13607863.2019.1693970

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“…However, several other studies have investigated age effects on reappraisal using both behavioral and neural measures. Findings suggest that older adults are less “successful” in using and benefitting affectively from reappraisal (Halfmann et al, 2021; Opitz et al, 2012), although not focusing specifically on positive reappraisal may have masked age advantages.…”

Section: What Is the Actual Evidence On Age Differences In Emotion Re...mentioning

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What Do We Know About Aging and Emotion Regulation?

Isaacowitz

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Older adults report surprisingly positive affective experience. The idea that older adults are better at emotion regulation has emerged as an intuitively appealing explanation for why they report such high levels of affective well-being despite other age-related declines. In this article, I review key theories and current evidence on age differences in the use and effectiveness of emotion-regulation strategies from a range of studies, including laboratory-based and experience sampling. These studies do not yet provide consistent evidence for age differences in emotion regulation and thus do not clearly support the assertion that older adults are better at emotion regulation. However, current approaches may be limited in describing and testing possible age-related changes in emotion regulation. Future work will need to more directly investigate individual trajectories of stability and change in emotion-regulation strategy use and effectiveness over time and also consider the possible roles of context, physiological reactivity, neural changes, acceptance, and personality.

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What Do We Know About Aging and Emotion Regulation?

Isaacowitz

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…Indeed, they observed greater CR‐related recruitment in the lateral and medial PFC in older relative to younger healthy adults (Allard & Kensinger, 2014). A more recent study by Halfmann et al., performed in a group of older adults, found increased PFC activity and, unexpectedly, greater activation in the amygdala and insular cortex during CR processing (Halfmann et al., 2021). Taken together, these results seem to suggest that, although functional‐related differences in ER processing between younger and older adults have been reported (particularly in frontal regions), the direction of the effect emerging from fMRI data is not yet clear.…”

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Aging modulates frontal lobes involvement in emotion regulation processing

Orlando,

Filippini

2023

J of Neuroscience Research

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Emotion regulation (ER) is the process by which individuals can modulate the intensity of their emotional experience and it plays a crucial role in daily life. So far, behavioral analyses seem to suggest that ER ability remains stable throughout the lifespan. However, imaging studies evaluating the neural correlates of ER performance during the aging process have shown mixed results. In this study, we used the “Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience cohort sample” to investigate: (1) ER behavioral performance and (2) the differential association between brain measures (based on both structural and functional connectivity data) and ER performance, in a group of younger/middle‐aged participants (N = 159; age range: 18y < x < 58y) relative to a group of older healthy subjects (N = 136; age range: 58y < =x < 89y). Whereas we found no group‐related differences either in ER behavioral data or the association between ER performance and structural data, we did observe that ER performance was differentially correlated in our two study groups to functional connectivity measures in the fronto‐insular‐temporal network, which has been shown to be involved in emotional processing. Group‐related differences were specifically localized in a cluster of voxels within the anterior cingulate areas which revealed a reverse pattern between our study groups: in younger/middle‐aged participants better ER performance was associated with increase connectivity, whereas among older participants better ER performance was related to reduced connectivity. Based on our results, we suggest that a de‐differentiation mechanism, known to affect the frontal lobes brain activity and connectivity in older subjects, might explain our findings.

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