Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat (Song A Day #1505)
50Long story short: They did a study where they gave women mild electric shocks to their ankles. They found that when a woman's husband was holding her hand, it wasn't as painful as when he wasn't. IN ADDITION, they found that the HEALTHIER and HAPPIER the relationship, the less the shock hurt. Damn, that's awesome. Read about it here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17201784
Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat
Song A Day #1505
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Social Regulation of the Neural Response to
Social Regulation of the Neural Response to
Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat
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Social contact promotes enhanced health and well-being,
B A
likely as a function of the social regulation
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of emotional responding in the face of various life stressors.
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For this fMRI study,
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16 married women
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were subjected to the threat of electric shock
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while holding their husband's hand,
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the hand of an anonymous male,
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or no hand at all.
E G# A
when the women held their husband's hand.
E G# A
Results indicated a pervasive attenuation
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of activation in the neural systems supporting
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emotional and behavioral threat responses
B
they felt better
E G# A
A more limited attenuation of activation in these systems
E G# A
occurred when they held the hand of a stranger.
C#m B G#m Amaj7
Most strikingly, the effects of spousal hand-holding
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on neural threat responses varied as a function
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of marital quality, with higher marital quality
A B
predicting less threat related neural activation
A
in the right anterior insula
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superior frontal gyrus
A
and hypothalamus
B
during spousal,
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but not stranger, hand-holding
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