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COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 1027-1038Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-016-0450-3
Keywords
Selective attention; Attentional control; Emotion; DLPFC; Neurostimulation
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- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
- Ghent University [BOF16/GOA/017]
- Ghent University Multidisciplinary Research Partnership
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The aim of this study was to increase insight in the neural substrates of attention processes involved in emotion regulation. The effects of right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (i.e., DLPFC) stimulation on attentional processing of emotional information were evaluated. A novel attention task allowing a straightforward measurement of attentional engagement toward, and attentional disengagement away from emotional faces was used. A sample of healthy participants received 20 minutes of active and sham anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (i.e., tDCS) applied over the right DLPFC on 2 separate days and completed the attention task after receiving real or sham stimulation. Compared to sham stimulation, tDCS over the right DLPFC led to impairments in attentional disengagement from both positive and negative faces. Findings demonstrate a causal role of right DLPFC activity in the generation of attentional impairments that are implicated in emotional disturbances such as depression and anxiety.
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