down-regulation of negative emotional processing by transcranial direct current stimulation effects of personality characteristics下调的负面情绪处理通过经颅直流电刺激性格特征的影响.pdfVIP

Down-Regulation of Negative Emotional Processing by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Effects of Personality Characteristics ´ ˜ ´ 1 ´ ˜ 1 2 ´ 3,4 Cleofe Pena-Gomez , Dıdac Vidal-Pineiro , Immaculada C. Clemente , Alvaro Pascual-Leone , ´ 1,5* David Bartres-Faz ´ ´ 1 Departament de Psiquiatria i Psicobiologia Clınica, Facultat de Medicina Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2 Departament de Psiquiatria i Psicobiologia Clınica, Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 3 Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, ´ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitacio Guttmann-UAB, Badalona, Spain, 5 Institut ` d’nvestigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain Abstract Evidence from neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies indicates that the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is a core region in emotional processing, particularly during down-regulation of negative emotional conditions. However, emotional regulation is a process subject to major inter-individual differences, some of which may be explained by personality traits. In the present study we used transcranial direct current stimulatio