Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: To investigate brain activation in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during emotional experiences, we examined blood oxygenation changes of healthy female volunteers by using multi-channel Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS).Results directly confirmed that the PFC was activated during emotional tasks suggesting that the levels of oxy-Hb increased significantly larger in negative periods compared with positive or neutral in the bilateral dorsolateral PFC.There is a possibility that this brain area is associated with the regulation of negative emotion.Our results suggest that it may be possible to evaluate emotional changes using NIRS sensitively.
Language: English
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: University of Tokushima
OpenAlex ID: W195536029