Neuroimaging studies to investigate brain mechanisms of cognitive emotional interaction and the effects of abnormal interactions on psychiatric disorders

我们进行了神经成像研究，以调查认知-情感相互作用的特定模式，以及健康对照组和与压力相关的精神疾病（如抑郁症和饮食失调）中潜在的神经回路。本研究利用多种认知-情绪任务和功能磁共振成像的研究结果表明，前额叶和前扣带皮层在认知上调节杏仁核介导的情绪反应，并且这些区域的功能变化存在于压力相关精神疾病中。

We conducted neuroimaging studies to investigate specific patterns of cognitive-emotional interaction and the underlying neurocircuitry in healthy controls and stress-related psychiatric disorders like depression and eating-disorders. The findings of our studies using various cognitive-emotional tasks and functional magnetic resonance imaging suggest that prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex cognitively modulate emotional responses mediated by amygdala, and functional changes of these regions are present in stress-related psychiatric disorders.