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Emotional Regulation: Implications for the Psychobiology of Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Dan J. Stein
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Abstract

A range of studies have contributed to understanding the psychobiology of emotional regulation. Functional imaging studies have demonstrated that cortico-limbic circuitry plays an important role in mediating processes such as reappraisal and suppression. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex may be important in conscious reframing, while ventromedial prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex may be particularly important in emotion evaluation. Gene variants and early environments impact underlying emotional regulation and its neurobiology. It may be hypothesized that during interventions such as psychotherapy there are improvements in emotional regulation, together with the normalization of related psycho-biological mechanisms.

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Pearls in Clinical Neuroscience
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , March 2008 , pp. 195 - 201
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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