The ability to adaptively regulate emotion is essential for mental and physical well-being.
How should we organize the myriad ways people attempt to regulate their emotions? We …

Putting feelings into words, or “affect labeling,” can attenuate our emotional experiences.
However, unlike explicit emotion regulation techniques, affect labeling may not even feel like …

Objective: Disrupted emotional processing is a common feature of many psychiatric
disorders. The authors investigated functional disruptions in neural circuitry underlying …

This review examines mechanisms contributing to the intergenerational transmission of self-
regulation. To provide an integrated account of how self-regulation is transmitted across …

In our TICS Review in 2004, we proposed that a sector of the right inferior frontal cortex
(rIFC) in humans is critical for inhibiting response tendencies. Here we survey new …

In many circumstances alternative courses of action and thoughts have to be inhibited to
allow the emergence of goal-directed behavior. However, this has not been the accepted …

Executive functions (EFs) include high-order cognitive abilities such as working memory,
inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, planning, reasoning, and problem solving. EFs enable …

Background Methamphetamine has long been considered as a neurotoxic substance
causing cognitive deficits. Recently, however, the magnitude and the clinical significance of …

Self-regulation is a core aspect of adaptive human behavior that has been studied, largely in
parallel, through the lenses of social and personality psychology as well as cognitive …

This paper reviews and synthesizes functional imaging research that over the past decade
has begun to offer new insights into the brain mechanisms underlying emotion regulation …