Don't Look Back in Anger! Responsiveness to Missed Chances in Successful and Nonsuccessful Aging
Don't Look Back in Anger! Responsiveness to Missed Chances in Successful and Nonsuccessful Aging
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DOI：
10.1126/science.1217516
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发表时间：
2012-05-04
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56.9
通讯作者：
Buechel, Christian
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作者：
Brassen, Stefanie;Gamer, Matthias;Buechel, Christian
寿命理论解释成功的老龄化与情绪经验的适应性管理，如遗憾。随着年龄的增长，消除令人遗憾的情况的机会越来越少，减少参与这些情况是一种潜在的保护性策略，以保持老年人的福祉。然而，人们对支持这一说法的潜在神经生物学机制知之甚少。我们使用多模式心理生理学方法与诱发遗憾感的顺序冒险任务相结合，并调查了年轻人以及情感上成功和不成功的人（即，老年抑郁症患者。后悔的反应，特别是减少在成功的老龄化自主神经和额纹状体的特点，表明适应性变化的情绪调节。我们的研究结果表明，从后悔中解脱出来反映了老年人情绪健康的一个关键弹性因素。
Life-span theories explain successful aging with an adaptive management of emotional experiences like regret. As opportunities to undo regrettable situations decline with age, a reduced engagement into these situations represents a potentially protective strategy to maintain well-being in older age. Yet, little is known about the underlying neurobiological mechanisms supporting this claim. We used a multimodal psychophysiological approach in combination with a sequential risk-taking task that induces the feeling of regret and investigated young as well as emotionally successfully and unsuccessfully (i.e., late-life depressed) aged participants. Responsiveness to regret was specifically reduced in successful aging paralleled by autonomic and frontostriatal characteristics indicating adaptive shifts in emotion regulation. Our results suggest that disengagement from regret reflects a critical resilience factor for emotional health in older age.