Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level.

Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci

Biofunctional Imaging Laboratory, Division of Preeminent Bioimaging Research, Institute of Photonics Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1, Handayama, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan.

Published: December 2024

Distancing involves changing perspectives to alter the psychological distance from stimuli that elicit emotional reactions as a tactic to regulate emotions. Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging, this study aimed to examine 1) whether the neural correlates of emotion upregulation via distancing differ across emotional valence (i.e., emotional responses toward positive and negative pictures), and 2) whether the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) concentration in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), one of the crucial areas of emotion regulation, is correlated with brain activity related to either negative or positive emotion upregulation. Thirty-four healthy Japanese adults participated in this study. Compared to the condition involving positive emotion upregulation, negative emotion upregulation induced increased activation in the MPFC, left temporoparietal junction, bilateral anterior insula, pre-supplementary motor area, and bilateral cerebellum. In contrast, when comparing positive emotion upregulation with negative emotion upregulation, no significant activation was found. Right cerebellar activity during negative emotion upregulation positively correlated with GABA concentration in the MPFC. These findings provide evidence of cerebellar involvement in the upregulation of negative emotion via distancing and its association with the prefrontal GABA concentration.

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