Publication Date:
2012-04-21
Description:
Life-span theories explain successful aging with an adaptive management of emotional experiences like regret. As opportunities to undo regrettable situations decline with age, a reduced engagement into these situations represents a potentially protective strategy to maintain well-being in older age. Yet, little is known about the underlying neurobiological mechanisms supporting this claim. We used a multimodal psychophysiological approach in combination with a sequential risk-taking task that induces the feeling of regret and investigated young as well as emotionally successfully and unsuccessfully (i.e., late-life depressed) aged participants. Responsiveness to regret was specifically reduced in successful aging paralleled by autonomic and frontostriatal characteristics indicating adaptive shifts in emotion regulation. Our results suggest that disengagement from regret reflects a critical resilience factor for emotional health in older age.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Brassen, Stefanie -- Gamer, Matthias -- Peters, Jan -- Gluth, Sebastian -- Buchel, Christian -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 May 4;336(6081):612-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1217516. Epub 2012 Apr 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. sbrassen@uke.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22517323" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adaptation, Psychological
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Adult
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Aged
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*Aging
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*Anger
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Basal Ganglia/*physiology
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Brain Mapping
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Depression/*psychology
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*Emotions
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Female
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Gyrus Cinguli/*physiology
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Heart Rate
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Humans
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Male
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Oxygen/blood
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Personal Satisfaction
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Resilience, Psychological
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Risk-Taking
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Young Adult
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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