"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that alcohol increases emotions and feelings," Rasmussen wrote.
He maintains that our goal should be to increase flourishing by increasing emotion, engagement, meaning, positive relationships, and accomplishment.
Interventions designed to increase emotion regulation skills and clarify one's chosen values may be well-suited to address factors known to maintain BED.
Interestingly, Dillon's study using valence ratings as emotion responses revealed comparable regulation outcome between groups in increasing emotion, which differs from current study.
The PPI analysis exhibited a strengthened coupling between left amygdala and right prefrontal cortex (including dlPFC and vmPFC) and right IPL in MDD when increasing emotion.
These findings suggest increased emotion reactivity in euthymic BD-II, as was the case for BD-I; however, unlike in the latter group, BD-II behavioral, functional connectivity and white matter microstructure results suggested no deficits in emotion regulation.
Studies of aging and emotion suggest that older adults show diminished responsiveness to negative information, possibly resulting from increased emotion regulation, but the mechanisms accounting for this effect are uncertain.
To address the question of how expressive performance leads to increased emotion-related activity, tempo fluctuations and real-time ratings of emotional arousal were compared with dynamic changes in BOLD activation.
This study shows that military populations tend to contain more negative and less positive sentiments than control populations, in addition to increased emotions of sadness, fear, disgust and anger.
Darker, cooler days sometimes increase emotions like sadness and grief.
