Key Points
A therapeutic tool focused on emotional awareness that increased activation and connectivity of an emotion-regulating centre in the brain has been discovered by researchers..
The findings of the study were published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Patients with bipolar disorder have alternating extreme mood states characterised by mania, depression, and impaired social functioning..
Led by Kristina Meyer, PhD, and Catherine Hindi Attar, PhD, at Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, in Berlin, Germany, the researchers investigated the impact of two psychotherapeutic interventions on BD symptoms and on amygdala activation and connectivity with other emotion-related brain regions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...
"In line with our expectations, the patients participating in the emotion-focused therapy showed an increased activation and connectivity of the amygdala post-intervention compared to the patients receiving the cognitive-behavioral intervention, which may reflect improved emotion processing and increased tolerance towards negative emotions," said Dr. Meyer..
In contrast, the patients of the cognitive-behavioural intervention demonstrated increased activation of brain regions related to social function but not altered amygdala activity...
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