The phrase "altering emotions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of changing or influencing someone's feelings or emotional state.
Example: "The film was so powerful that it succeeded in altering emotions, leaving the audience in tears."
Alternatives: "modifying feelings" or "changing emotional states."
Penny Sarchet writes for New Scientist about how MIT researchers have successfully altered emotions associated with specific memories in mice.
In addition, the present data support the assumption that emotional adversities alter emotion processing, which both in turn influence FNS severity.
Furthermore, altered emotion processing may be reflected in habitual tendencies to suppress emotional expressions together with impaired cognitive elaboration of emotional conflicts ([ 31], see also [ 28, 32– 32]).
We hypothesized that acute stress could alter emotion processing in healthy aging brain and constitute a pathway to vulnerability.
Research indicates an association between childhood adversity and altered emotion processing.
A possible second explanation for altered emotion recognition in subjects with ADHD is the presence of comorbid disorders.
We did not examine women using hormone contraceptives, since this external hormone intake might alter emotion processing.
The first possible explanation of altered emotion recognition in subjects with ADHD is the presence of attention problems, as core symptom of ADHD [ 3].
Although combinations of depressive and anxiety syndromes are classified by the current diagnostic nomenclature as a mood disorder plus a comorbid anxiety disorder, researchers expect that they reflect dysfunction from a single etiology, which alters emotion regulation within the visceromotor network.
Internalizing pathology is related to alterations in amygdala resting state functional connectivity, potentially implicating altered emotional reactivity and/or emotion regulation in the etiological pathway.
