TY  - JOUR
AU  - Koush, Yury
AU  - Pichon, Swann
AU  - Eickhoff, Simon
AU  - Van De Ville, Dimitri
AU  - Vuilleumier, Patrik
AU  - Scharnowski, Frank
TI  - Brain networks for engaging oneself in positive-social emotion regulation
JO  - NeuroImage
VL  - 189
SN  - 1053-8119
CY  - Orlando, Fla.
PB  - Academic Press
M1  - FZJ-2019-00028
SP  - 106-115
PY  - 2019
N1  - This study was supported by the Center for Neuroscience of the University of Geneva, the Ernest 6 Boninchi  Foundation,  the  Swiss  National  Science  Foundation  (YK:  P300PB_161083;  FS: 7 PZ00P3-131932, PP00P2-146318, BSSG10_155915, 100014_178841, 32003B_166566), and the 8 Wyss  Center  at  the  Campus  Biotech  Geneva.  FS  is  also  supported  by  the  Foundation  for 9 Research  in  Science  and  the  Humanities  at  the  University  of  Zurich  (STWF-17-012),  the 10 Baugarten  Stiftung,  and  the  European  Union.  We  thank  Hanneke  den  Ouden for  helpful 11 discussions. The computations were performed at the EPFL on the Castor HPC cluster, and at the 12 University  of  Geneva  on  the  Baobab  HPC  cluster.  The  authors  declare  no  competing  financial 13 interests.
AB  - Positive emotions facilitate cognitive performance, and their absence is associated with burdening psychiatric disorders. However, the brain networks regulating positive emotions are not well understood, especially with regard to engaging oneself in positive-social situations. Here we report convergent evidence from a multimodal approach that includes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain activations, meta-analytic functional characterization, Bayesian model-driven analysis of effective brain connectivity, and personality questionnaires to identify the brain networks mediating the cognitive up-regulation of positive-social emotions. Our comprehensive approach revealed that engaging in positive-social emotion regulation with a self-referential first-person perspective is characterized by dynamic interactions between functionally specialized prefrontal cortex (PFC) areas, the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) and the amygdala. Increased top-down connectivity from the superior frontal gyrus (SFG) controls affective valuation in the ventromedial and dorsomedial PFC, self-referential processes in the TPJ, and modulate emotional responses in the amygdala via the ventromedial PFC. Understanding the brain networks engaged in the regulation of positive-social emotions that involve a first-person perspective is important as they are known to constitute an effective strategy in therapeutic settings
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C6  - pmid:30594682
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DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.049
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/859077
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