During the MRI participants have to stay really still in the scanner for about 50 minutes at a time, we measure their brain structure as well as their brain functional activity during the emotion regulation tasks, which we adapted for this particular
During the MRI participants have to stay really still in the
scanner for about 50 minutes at a time, we measure their brain structure as well as their brain functional activity
during the emotion regulation tasks, which we adapted for this particular
during the emotion regulation
tasks, which we adapted for this particular study.
At a second point in time, their brains were scanned while they participated in a virtual social
task in the
scanner,
during which they were gradually excluded from the social interaction; this paradigm has previously been found to provoke significant social distress that is correlated with activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC)(31), a brain region associated with monitoring threat.