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Morawetz, Carmen ORCID: 0000-0003-3607-7627, Steyrl, David ORCID: 0000-0002-3215-8115, Berboth, Stella ORCID: 0000-0002-9272-4465, Heekeren, Hauke R. and Bode, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0002-0258-7795 (2020). Emotion Regulation Modulates Dietary Decision-Making via Activity in the Prefrontal-Striatal Valuation System. Cereb. Cortex, 30 (11). S. 5731 - 5750. CARY: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. ISSN 1460-2199

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Abstract

The consumption of indulgent, carbohydrate- and fat-rich foods is often used as a strategy to cope with negative affect because they provide immediate self-reward. Such dietary choices, however, can severely affect people's health. One countermeasure could be to improve one's emotion regulation ability. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the neural activity underlying the downregulation of incidental emotions and its effect on subsequent food choices. We investigated whether emotion regulation leads to healthier food choices and how emotion regulation interacts with the brain's valuation and decision-making circuitry. We found that 1) the downregulation of incidental negative emotions was associated with a subsequent selective increase in decisions for tasty but also for healthy foods, 2) food preferences were predicted by palatability but also by the current emotional state, and 3) emotion regulation modulated decision-related activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum. These results indicate that emotional states are indeed important for food choice and that the process of emotion regulation might boost the subsequent processing of health attributes, possibly via neural reward circuits. In consequence, our findings suggest that increasing emotion regulation ability could effectively modulate food choices by stimulating an incidental upvaluation of health attributes.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Morawetz, Carmen UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3607-7627 UNSPECIFIED Steyrl, David UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3215-8115 UNSPECIFIED Berboth, Stella UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-9272-4465 UNSPECIFIED Heekeren, Hauke R. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bode, Stefan UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-0258-7795 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-313723
DOI:	10.1093/cercor/bhaa147
Journal or Publication Title:	Cereb. Cortex
Volume:	30
Number:	11
Page Range:	S. 5731 - 5750
Date:	2020
Publisher:	OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
Place of Publication:	CARY
ISSN:	1460-2199
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language COGNITIVE REAPPRAISAL; SUBJECTIVE VALUE; NEGATIVE AFFECT; UP-REGULATION; HIGH-CALORIE; SELF-CONTROL; FOOD-INTAKE; RESPONSES; STRESS; TASTE Multiple languages Neurosciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31372