Resting state frontal alpha asymmetry predicts emotion regulation difficulties in impulse control

Zhang, Jing; Yan, Hua; Xiu, Lichao; Oei, Tian P. S.; Hu, Ping

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.109870

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“…The literature research for this review was delimited by a period that ranged from January 1990 to June 2020. In the 47 articles selected, from a total of 50 studies, 7120 healthy adult participants, aged between 17 [26,33,35,43,56,71] and 82 years old [38] took part. The studies showed a percentage of men and women variable.…”

Section: Demographic Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among studies testing the association between resting-EEG activity and BIS (or parallel measures), 11 articles have considered the role of state or trait anxiety [27,29,34,40,43,44,47,49,63,69,71], four articles studied the role of negative affect [26,28,29,57], 21 articles evaluated the role of neuroticism [29][30][31][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]43,49,51,[53][54][55][56][60][61][62]70], three articles considered the role of defensiveness [27,30,43], seven articles studied the role of depression trait [27,40,[42][43][44]63,71] and finally, one study considered the role of nostalgia [62].…”

Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Traits and Electrocortical Mementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this review of the literature, 33 studies that found a relationship between resting-EEG alpha rhythm and approach/avoidance behavioral traits, or other parallel trait measures were included. Of these studies, 27 analyzed the relationship among EEG alpha activity and approach/avoidance personality traits [26][27][28][29][30]33,[35][36][37][38][39][40][42][43][44], [45] (studies 1 and 2), [46,50], [52] (studies 3 and 4), [57,59,[62][63][64]71], while, the remaining six studies analyzed the influence of the interactional or contextual variables, on the relationship between approach/avoidance personality traits and resting EEG alpha activity [31,32], [48] (studies 1 and 2), [60,66]. For this reason, we decided to discuss the results highlighted by this research line in two separate sections.…”

Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Trait Interactional Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Zhang and colleagues [71], participants who showed a higher relative left frontal activity during a resting state condition, exhibited fewer difficulties in everyday emotion regulation, especially in the dimension of impulsive control. Among personality traits related to impulsive control, the positive urgency (defined by Cyders and colleagues [108] as the tendency towards rash action in response to extreme positive emotional states) is related to left frontal alpha asymmetry.…”

Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Traits and Eeg Alpha Rhythmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately, the study of this relationship provides controversial and unclear results. Several studies have supported the motivational model [28,[43][44][45]57,59,62,63,71], many others have supported it partially [59,64,67], and others have disconfirmed it [29,33,37,52,64,66,175].…”

Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Traits and Eeg Alpha Rhythmmentioning

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EEG Resting Asymmetries and Frequency Oscillations in Approach/Avoidance Personality Traits: A Systematic Review

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Pascalis

2020

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Background: Brain cortical activity in resting electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings can be considered as measures of latent individual disposition to approach/avoidance behavior. This systematic review aims to provide an updated overview of the relationship between resting EEG cortical activity and approach/avoidance motivation personality traits. Methods: The review process was conducted according to the PRISMA-Statement, using PsycArticles, MEDLINE, Scopus, Science Citation Index, and Research Gate database. Restrictions were made by selecting EEG studies conducted in resting idling conditions, which included approach/avoidance personality traits or parallel measures, and an index of EEG brain activity. In the review 50 studies were selected, wherein 7120 healthy adult individuals participated. Results: The study of the relationship between resting EEG cortical activity and approach/avoidance personality traits provides controversial and unclear results. Therefore, the validity of resting asymmetry or frequency oscillations as a potential marker for approach/avoidance personality traits is not supported. Conclusions: There are important contextual and interactional factors not taken into account by researchers that could mediate or moderate this relationship or prove it scarcely replicable. Further, it would be necessary to conduct more sessions of EEG recordings in different seasons of the year to test the validity and the reliability of the neurobiological measures.

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Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Traits and Electrocortical Mementioning

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Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Trait Interactional Variablementioning

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Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Traits and Eeg Alpha Rhythmmentioning

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Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling

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LoBue

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Developmental Psychobiology

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Resting‐state electroencephalography (EEG) provides developmental neuroscientists a noninvasive view into the neural underpinnings of cognition and emotion. Recently, the psychometric properties of two widely used neural measures in early childhood—frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling—have come under scrutiny. Despite their growing use, additional work examining how the psychometric properties of these neural signatures may change across infancy is needed. The current study examined the developmental stability, split‐half reliability, and construct validity of infant frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling. Infants provided resting‐state EEG data at 8, 12, and 18 months of age (N = 213). Frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling showed significant developmental change from 8 to 18 months. Reliability for alpha asymmetry, and alpha, delta, and beta power, individually, was generally good. In contrast, the reliability of delta–beta coupling scores was poor. Associations between frontal alpha asymmetry and approach tendencies generally emerged, whereas stronger (over‐coupled) delta–beta coupling scores were associated with profiles of dysregulation and low inhibition. However, the individual associations varied across time and specific measures of interest. We discuss these findings with a developmental lens, highlighting the importance of repeated measures to better understand links between neural signatures and typical and atypical development.

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A questionnaire measure of adult attachment anxiety correlates with frontal hemispheric asymmetry in sleep spindle activity

Becske

Lengyel

Bódizs

2022

Sleep Biol. Rhythms

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Subjects with high levels of attachment anxiety and neuroticism were proposed to be characterized by higher relative right rather than left frontal activity. Since sleep spindles are argued to reflect enhanced offline neuroplasticity, higher spindle activity measured over the right frontal areas relative to the corresponding left frontal ones could index higher attachment anxiety and neuroticism. Our aim was to explore the relationship between the lateralization patterns of frontally dominant slow sleep spindles and questionnaire measures of adult attachment anxiety and neuroticism. Thirty-four healthy subjects (male = 19; Mage = 31.64; SDage = 9.5) were enrolled in our preliminary study. Second night EEG/polysomnography records and questionnaire measures of personality (Zuckerman–Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire) and adult attachment (Relationship Scales Questionnaire) were collected. Frontal slow sleep spindles were measured by the Individual Adjustment Method (IAM), whereas hemispheric asymmetry indexes of spindle occurrence rate, duration, and amplitude were derived as normalized left–right differences (electrode pairs: Fp1–Fp2, F3–F4, and F7–F8). Relative right lateralization of frontolateral and frontopolar slow sleep spindle density and mid-frontal slow spindle duration were associated with attachment anxiety, but spindle lateralization was less closely related to neuroticism. The relationships between frontal slow spindle laterality and attachment anxiety remained statistically significant even after controlling for the effect of neuroticism, whereas attachment avoidance–independence was not correlated with frontal slow spindle lateralization. Right frontal lateralization of slow sleep spindle activity might indicate attachment status in terms of the negative view of the self.

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Resting state frontal alpha asymmetry predicts emotion regulation difficulties in impulse control

Cited by 39 publications

References 51 publications

EEG Resting Asymmetries and Frequency Oscillations in Approach/Avoidance Personality Traits: A Systematic Review

EEG Resting Asymmetries and Frequency Oscillations in Approach/Avoidance Personality Traits: A Systematic Review

Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling

A questionnaire measure of adult attachment anxiety correlates with frontal hemispheric asymmetry in sleep spindle activity

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