Control may play a crucial role in regulating emotional reactivity, with this regulation potentially differing between older and younger adults across various emotional subtypes. Research suggests that perceptions of control tend to decrease with age, which may result in older adults being more sensitive...
Conversely, labeling emotional expressions can decrease amygdala activity while increasing prefrontal cortex activation, suggesting aneuralbasis foremotional regulationthrough interpretation (Hariri et al., 2000). Actionable Defense: Impose cognitive friction: Introduce pauses in negotiations (e.g., “Let’s...
The eCALM trialis a therapy program for cancer patients. It found that mindfulness can reduce the physical symptoms of stress, decrease one's emotional reactivity to negative experiences, and facilitate post-traumatic growth while enhancing energy and relieving fatigue. ...
Thus, participants show generalized negative reciprocity: they transmit unfairness to innocent third persons8. Further, emotion regulation strategies were shown to decrease direct negative reciprocity in the ultimatum game13,14. The following questions remain open: 1) Does message writing as an emotion ...
If you’d like to practice how to become more empathetic, Headspace offers a 10-day Kindness course (available only to logged-in subscribers) that incorporates skillful compassion and loving-kindness visualizations, helping to foster feelings of compassion and decrease judgments. Also available to log...
People respond to trauma in various ways. Distress is a common response to trauma, which tends to decrease over time. A person may develop PTSD when their reactions to traumatic stress don't decrease over time or worsen. However, there is no one defining factor that ensures one will develop...
Deep breathing can be a powerful tool to calm the nervous system and reduce emotional intensity. When you feel the urge to cry, take slow, deep breaths. Inhale through your nose, hold your breath for a few seconds, then exhale slowly through your mouth. This can help decrease the immediate...
Britton, W. B., Shahar, B., Szepsenwol, O., & Jacobs, W. J. (2012). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy improves emotional reactivity to social stress: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Behavior Therapy, 43(2), 365–380. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2011.08.006. ...
HPA Axis Dysregulation:Increased inflammatory cytokines are believed toactivatethe hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which may increase chronicstressthat exacerbates mental health disorders. Reduced Neuroplasticity:Inflammatory cytokinesdecreasethe production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)...
Overall, brain scans of people with ADHD have consistently found many differences including a reduced density of gray matter, alterations in the composition of white matter, and even a slight decrease in total brain volume. The maturation of the cortical areas, vital for attention, has been obser...