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Albert Wabnegger1, Sonja Übel1, Anne Schienle1
1a Department of Psychology, Section Clinical Psychology , University of Graz, BioTechMedGraz , Graz , Austria.
Background:
Difficulties with the regulation of negative affect have been extensively studied in neuroimaging research. However, dysregulation of a specific emotion, disgust, has hardly been investigated. In the present study, we used voxel-based morphometry to identify whether gray matter volume (GMV) of frontal regions is correlated with personality traits associated with general and disgust-specific emotion regulation difficulties.
Method:
We analyzed T1-weighted images of 49 females (mean age = 22.8 years, SD = 3.2). The women rated their disgust sensitivity (DS) (temporally stable tendency to experience disgust as uncontrollable and extremely aversive) as well as general difficulties with emotion regulation.
Results:
DS and general emotion regulation deficits were positively associated with a heightened GMV of the orbitofrontal cortex. DS additionally showed a negative association with GMV of the medial prefrontal cortex.
Conclusion:
The present study revealed shared and distinct contributions of frontal brain regions to disgust-specific and general emotion regulation difficulties.
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