大脑如何解读社交情绪与焦虑

Summary The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is important for social hierarchy and facial emotion interpretation, relevant to anxiety and mood disorders. A research used advanced imaging to study it, finding strong activation during social - emotional decisions. Anxiety may disrupt semantic - emotional processing balance in this area. Future work includes mapping ATL connections and understanding gender differences.

Key Facts

• ATL's Role: Crucial for social and emotional meaning - making.
• Anxiety Link: High - anxiety individuals have increased ATL activity, reflecting disrupted emotional interpretation.
• Future Focus: Mapping connections like the uncinate fasciculus may uncover anxiety - guilt pathways.

Source: UJI

Research led by Maya Visser at Universitat Jaume I aims to understand how the brain interprets social hierarchy and facial emotions to learn about anxiety and mood disorders. The ATL has been under - studied in fMRI due to geometric distortions. Previous NFN group studies overcame this. The current project, funded by the 2021 National Plan for Scientific Research, studies ATL's communication with other brain regions during social - emotional situations and in subclinical anxiety. Preliminary analyses show the upper ATL is activated during social hierarchy interpretation and emotional - based decisions. High - anxiety people have more activation in this area, perhaps due to negative affect during social concept interpretation. The semantic - emotional system collaboration is disrupted. There are still steps like completing analyses of brain region connections and getting a gender - balanced sample. Maya Visser is a researcher at Universitat Jaume I, part of the NFN group. The Universitat Jaume I is committed to research on the human brain and mental health.

Funding: This research is part of project PID2021 - 127516NB - I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and FEDER/UE.

Author: Mari Luz Blanco Burgueño Source: UJI Contact: Mari Luz Blanco Burgueño – UJI

Another Study In healthy young adults, we analyzed whole - brain resting - state functional connectivity (N = 155) as brain activity during positive - negative emotional processing may be important. Most findings showed interactions between sleep quality and reinforcement sensitivity in good and poor sleepers. Only one finding related to sleep quality (coupling between subgenual anterior cingulate cortex and thalamus) was also related to emotion suppression strategy use.