Anxiety Reduction through Detachment: Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Effects

The ability to volitionally regulate emotions helps to adapt behavior to changing environmental demands and can alleviate subjective distress. We show that a cognitive strategy of detachment attenuates subjective and physiological measures of anticipatory anxiety for pain and reduces reactivity to receipt of pain itself. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we locate the potentialsite andsourceof this modulation of anticipatory anxiety in the medial prefrontal/anterior cingulate and anterolateral prefrontal cortex, respectively.

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2005-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1162/0898929054021184PMID 15969906
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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