http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=5034 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/></tr></table> <p><b>Effect of emotional arousal on inter-temporal decision-making: an fMRI study.</b></p> <p>J Physiol Anthropol. 2015;34(1):8</p> <p>Authors: Sohn JH, Kim HE, Sohn S, Seok JW, Choi D, Watanuki S</p> <p>Abstract<br/> BACKGROUND: Previous research has shown that emotion can significantly impact decision-making in humans. The current study examined whether or not and how situationally induced emotion influences people to make inter-temporal choices.<br/> METHODS: Affective pictures were used as experiment stimuli to provoke emotion, immediately followed by subjects' performance of a delay-discounting task to measure impulsivity during functional magnetic resonance imaging.<br/> RESULTS: Results demonstrate a subsequent process of increased impulsive decision-making following a prior exposure to both high positive and negative arousal stimuli, compared to the experiment subjects' experiences with neutral stimuli. Findings indicate that increased impulsive decision-making behaviors can occur with high arousal and can be characterized by decreased activities in the cognitive control regions such as prefronto-parietal regions.<br/> CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that 'stabilization of high emotional arousal' may facilitate a reduction of impulsive decision-making and implementation of longer term goals.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 25858095 [PubMed - in process]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Sat, 02 May 2026 4:51:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator