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  1. Article: Cooperative behavior in adolescents: a contribution of empathy and emotional regulation?

    Martínez-Velázquez, Eduardo Salvador / Ponce-Juárez, Sandra Pamela / Díaz Furlong, Alfonso / Sequeira, Henrique

    Frontiers in psychology

    2024  Volume 15, Page(s) 1342458

    Abstract: Aim: This study aims to identify different levels of empathy and emotional regulation along adolescent years and their relationship with cooperative behavior.: Methods: Eighty healthy males were divided into four age groups: 20 Early Adolescents, 20 ... ...

    Abstract Aim: This study aims to identify different levels of empathy and emotional regulation along adolescent years and their relationship with cooperative behavior.
    Methods: Eighty healthy males were divided into four age groups: 20 Early Adolescents, 20 Middle Adolescents, 20 Late Adolescents and 20 Adults. Participants responded to empathic and emotional regulation scales, then were assigned to an unknown partner to perform the prisoner's dilemma paradigm.
    Results: The statistical analyses allowed to distinguish the groups on the basis of the components making up the two scales: scores on the Perspective Taking component were higher for Adults and Late Adolescents participants than for Middle Adolescents and Early Adolescents groups (
    Discussion: These findings suggest that the cooperative behavior changes during the different stages of adolescence seem to be related to the development of empathy and emotional regulation components.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-04
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2563826-9
    ISSN 1664-1078
    ISSN 1664-1078
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1342458
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  2. Article ; Online: The impact of attention bias modification training on behavioral and physiological responses.

    Ranfaing, Stéphane / De Zorzi, Lucas / Ruyffelaere, Rémi / Honoré, Jacques / Critchley, Hugo / Sequeira, Henrique

    Biological psychology

    2024  Volume 186, Page(s) 108753

    Abstract: Attention bias modification training aims to alter attentional deployment to symptom-relevant emotionally salient stimuli. Such training has therapeutic applications in the management of disorders including anxiety, depression, addiction and chronic pain. ...

    Abstract Attention bias modification training aims to alter attentional deployment to symptom-relevant emotionally salient stimuli. Such training has therapeutic applications in the management of disorders including anxiety, depression, addiction and chronic pain. In emotional reactions, attentional biases interact with autonomically-mediated changes in bodily arousal putatively underpinning affective feeling states. Here we examined the impact of attention bias modification training on behavioral and autonomic reactivity. Fifty-eight participants were divided into two groups. A training group (TR) received attention bias modification training to enhance attention to pleasant visual information, while a control group (CT) performed a procedure that did not modify attentional bias. After training, participants performed an evaluation task in which pairs of emotional and neutral images (unpleasant-neutral, pleasant-neutral, neutral-neutral) were presented, while behavioral (eye movements) and autonomic (skin conductance; heart rate) responses were recorded. At the behavioral level, trained participants were faster to orientate attention to pleasant images, and slower to orientate to unpleasant images. At the autonomic level, trained participants showed attenuated skin conductance responses to unpleasant images, while stronger skin conductance responses were generally associated with higher anxiety. These data argue for the use of attentional training to address both the attentional and the physiological sides of emotional responses, appropriate for anxious and depressive symptomatology, characterized by atypical attentional deployment and autonomic reactivity.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Emotions/physiology ; Anxiety/therapy ; Anxiety Disorders/psychology ; Bias ; Attentional Bias/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-18
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 185105-6
    ISSN 1873-6246 ; 0301-0511
    ISSN (online) 1873-6246
    ISSN 0301-0511
    DOI 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108753
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  3. Article ; Online: Corpus callosum damage to account for cognitive, affective, and social-cognitive dysfunctions in multiple sclerosis: A model of callosal disconnection syndrome?

    Degraeve, Béatrice / Sequeira, Henrique / Mecheri, Halima / Lenne, Bruno

    Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)

    2022  Volume 29, Issue 2, Page(s) 160–168

    Abstract: The corpus callosum (CC) is the major commissure interconnecting the two hemispheres and is particularly affected in multiple sclerosis (MS). In the present review, we aimed to investigate the role played by callosal damages in the pathogenesis of MS- ... ...

    Abstract The corpus callosum (CC) is the major commissure interconnecting the two hemispheres and is particularly affected in multiple sclerosis (MS). In the present review, we aimed to investigate the role played by callosal damages in the pathogenesis of MS-related dysfunctions and examine whether a model of callosal disconnection syndrome is a valid model for MS. For this purpose, we will first review structural and functional evidence of callosal pathology in MS. Second, we will account for the potential role of CC abnormalities in MS-related dysfunctions. Finally, we will report data concurring with a "multiple disconnection hypothesis" that has been proposed to explain those dysfunctions, and we will examine evidence pointing toward MS as a "callosal disconnection syndrome." We will end by discussing the contribution of this interpretation to the understanding of MS and MS-related deficits.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Corpus Callosum/pathology ; Multiple Sclerosis ; Leukoencephalopathies/pathology ; Cognition ; Cognitive Dysfunction
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1290669-4
    ISSN 1477-0970 ; 1352-4585
    ISSN (online) 1477-0970
    ISSN 1352-4585
    DOI 10.1177/13524585221091067
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  4. Article ; Online: Correction: The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: The role of personality traits and emotion regulation strategies.

    Kluwe-Schiavon, Bruno / De Zorzi, Lucas / Meireles, Joana / Leite, Jorge / Sequeira, Henrique / Carvalho, Sandra

    PloS one

    2023  Volume 18, Issue 10, Page(s) e0293490

    Abstract: This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269496.]. ...

    Abstract [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269496.].
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Published Erratum
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0293490
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  5. Article ; Online: Autonomic reactivity to emotion: A marker of sub-clinical anxiety and depression symptoms?

    De Zorzi, Lucas / Ranfaing, Stéphane / Honoré, Jacques / Sequeira, Henrique

    Psychophysiology

    2021  Volume 58, Issue 4, Page(s) e13774

    Abstract: Anxiety and depression are both characterized by dysregulated autonomic reactivity to emotion. However, most experiments until now have focused on autonomic reactivity to stimuli presented in central vision (CV) even if affective saliency is also ... ...

    Abstract Anxiety and depression are both characterized by dysregulated autonomic reactivity to emotion. However, most experiments until now have focused on autonomic reactivity to stimuli presented in central vision (CV) even if affective saliency is also observed in peripheral vision (PV). We compared autonomic reactivity to CV and PV emotional stimulation in 58 participants with high anxious (HA) or low anxious (LA) and high depressive (HD) or low depressive (LD) symptomatology, based on STAI-B and BDI scores, respectively. Unpleasant (U), pleasant (P), and neutral (N) pictures from IAPS were presented at three eccentricities (0°: CV; -12 and 12°: PV). Skin conductance (SC), skin temperature, pupillary diameter, and heart rate (HR) were recorded. First, HA participants showed greater pupil dilation to emotional than to neutral stimuli in PV than in CV. Second, in contrast to HD, the valence effect indexed by SC and emotional arousal effect indexed by skin temperature were observed in LD. Third, both anxiety and depression lead to a valence effect indexed by pupillary light reflex and heart rate. These results suggest a hyperreactivity to emotion and hypervigilance to PV in anxiety. Depression is associated with an attenuation of positive effect and a global blunted autonomic reactivity to emotion. Moreover, anxiety mostly modulates the early processes of autonomic reactivity whereas depression mainly affects the later processes. The differential impact of emotional information over the visual field suggests the use of new stimulation strategies in order to attenuate anxious and depressive symptoms.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Anxiety/physiopathology ; Arousal/physiology ; Autonomic Nervous System/physiopathology ; Depression/physiopathology ; Electrocardiography ; Emotions/physiology ; Female ; Galvanic Skin Response/physiology ; Heart Rate/physiology ; Humans ; Male ; Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology ; Pupil/physiology ; Reflex/physiology ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 209486-1
    ISSN 1540-5958 ; 0048-5772
    ISSN (online) 1540-5958
    ISSN 0048-5772
    DOI 10.1111/psyp.13774
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  6. Article ; Online: The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: The role of personality traits and emotion regulation strategies.

    Kluwe-Schiavon, Bruno / De Zorzi, Lucas / Meireles, Joana / Leite, Jorge / Sequeira, Henrique / Carvalho, Sandra

    PloS one

    2022  Volume 17, Issue 6, Page(s) e0269496

    Abstract: Recent evidence suggests that both personality traits (PT) and emotion regulation (ER) strategies play an important role in the way people cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was two folded. First, to longitudinally investigate the ... ...

    Abstract Recent evidence suggests that both personality traits (PT) and emotion regulation (ER) strategies play an important role in the way people cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was two folded. First, to longitudinally investigate the psychological distress (depression, anxiety, and stress levels) taking in consideration PT and ER strategies in 3 different moments: during the first lockdown period (April/20), at the first deconfinement (May/20) and 1-month after the first deconfinement (Jun/20)-Experiment I. Second, to cross-sectionally evaluate the impact of the pandemic in psychological distress and the correlates with PT and ER 6-months after the first deconfinement November/20 to February/21 -Experiment II. A total of 722 volunteers (Experiment I = 180; Experiment II = 542) aged 18 years or older participated in this online survey. The findings from Experiment I show that psychological distress decreased after the lockdown period, however, neuroticism traits predicted higher levels of depression, anxiety and stress symptoms, while difficulties in ER strategies were identified as a risk factor for depression and stress. For experiment II, neuroticism traits and being infected with COVID-19 were associated to higher levels of symptomatology, while unemployment and the use of emotional suppression strategies to cope with emotional situations were associated to depressive and anxiety symptoms. Although the psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak decreased over time in our sample, the current findings suggest that difficulties in emotional regulation and high levels of neuroticism traits might be potential risk factors for psychiatric symptomatology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, people with difficulties in ER and neuroticism traits would benefit from psychological interventions that provide personality-appropriate support and promote emotion regulation skills during stressful events, such as the case of the global pandemic.
    MeSH term(s) Anxiety/epidemiology ; Anxiety/psychology ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; Communicable Disease Control ; Emotional Regulation ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Personality ; Portugal/epidemiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0269496
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  7. Article ; Online: Sex differences in cognitive processing: An integrative review of electrophysiological findings.

    Ramos-Loyo, Julieta / González-Garrido, Andrés A / Llamas-Alonso, Luis A / Sequeira, Henrique

    Biological psychology

    2022  Volume 172, Page(s) 108370

    Abstract: Sex differences in cognition and their underlying brain mechanisms have attracted increasing attention. Brain electrical activity (EEG) represents a reliable, high-temporal resolution approach to assessing the neural correlates of ongoing cognitive ... ...

    Abstract Sex differences in cognition and their underlying brain mechanisms have attracted increasing attention. Brain electrical activity (EEG) represents a reliable, high-temporal resolution approach to assessing the neural correlates of ongoing cognitive activity. The aim of the present work was to provide a comprehensive review of the literature regarding sex differences in brain electrical activity during cognitive processing, and their potential relation to behavioral performance. The cognitive domains addressed are perception, attention, language, visuospatial reasoning, and the executive functions. Overall, the literature reviewed shows sex differences in brain electrical activity during cognitive processing. Differences were observed in such EEG characteristics as hemispheric specialization, scalp topography, amplitudes of event-related potential components, temporal dynamics, and connectivity patterns. While these between-sex differences varied across the cognitive domains analyzed, there were consistent results for visuospatial reasoning and language. Regarding the relationships between behavioral manifestations of cognitive functions and underlying brain dynamics, further research is required to draw reasonable conclusions, since many of the EEG studies reviewed did not assess behavioral differences. Future research must contemplate several confounding factors, such as the precise characteristics of the experimental tasks employed, the phases of the menstrual cycle, individual traits, subjective stimuli saliency, and the interaction of brain development with educational and sociocultural factors. Despite these concerns, the present review contributes to supporting a broad debate that aims to optimize cognitive and behavioral abilities in order to improve teaching strategies and learning skills and thus expand the potentialities of each sex.
    MeSH term(s) Attention/physiology ; Brain ; Cognition ; Executive Function ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Sex Characteristics
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-01
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 185105-6
    ISSN 1873-6246 ; 0301-0511
    ISSN (online) 1873-6246
    ISSN 0301-0511
    DOI 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108370
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  8. Article ; Online: Attention orientation to pleasantness and depressive symptomatology predict autonomic reactivity.

    Ranfaing, Stéphane / De Zorzi, Lucas / Honoré, Jacques / Critchley, Hugo / Sequeira, Henrique

    Cognition & emotion

    2021  Volume 35, Issue 6, Page(s) 1203–1213

    Abstract: Depression is characterised by attentional bias to emotional information and dysregulated autonomic reactivity. Despite its relevance to understanding depressive mechanisms, the association between attentional bias and autonomic reactivity to emotional ... ...

    Abstract Depression is characterised by attentional bias to emotional information and dysregulated autonomic reactivity. Despite its relevance to understanding depressive mechanisms, the association between attentional bias and autonomic reactivity to emotional information remains poorly characterised. This study compared behavioural and autonomic responses to emotional images in 32 participants in whom subclinical depressive symptomatology was quantified using the Beck Depression Inventory. Pairs of emotional and neutral images (unpleasant-neutral, U-N; pleasant-neutral, P-N; neutral-neutral, N-N) were presented while attentional indices (eye movements) and autonomic activity (skin conductance responses, SCRs; heart rate, HR) were recorded. Results showed that all recorded ocular parameters indicated a preferential orientation and maintenance of attention to emotional images. SCRs were associated with a valence effect on fixation latency: lower fixation latency to pleasant stimuli leads to lower SCRs whereas the opposite was observed for unpleasant stimuli. Finally, stepwise linear regression analysis revealed that latency of fixation to pleasant images and scores of depression predicted SCRs of participants. Thus, our research reveals an association between autonomic reactivity and attentional bias to pleasant information, on the one hand, and depressive symptomatology on the other. Present findings therefore suggest that depressive individuals may benefit from attention training towards pleasant information in association with autonomic biofeedback procedures.
    MeSH term(s) Attentional Bias ; Emotions ; Eye Movements ; Heart Rate ; Humans
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 639123-0
    ISSN 1464-0600 ; 0269-9931
    ISSN (online) 1464-0600
    ISSN 0269-9931
    DOI 10.1080/02699931.2021.1929852
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  9. Article ; Online: Telling functional networks apart using ranked network features stability.

    Zanin, Massimiliano / Güntekin, Bahar / Aktürk, Tuba / Yıldırım, Ebru / Yener, Görsev / Kiyi, Ilayda / Hünerli-Gündüz, Duygu / Sequeira, Henrique / Papo, David

    Scientific reports

    2022  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 2562

    Abstract: Over the past few years, it has become standard to describe brain anatomical and functional organisation in terms of complex networks, wherein single brain regions or modules and their connections are respectively identified with network nodes and the ... ...

    Abstract Over the past few years, it has become standard to describe brain anatomical and functional organisation in terms of complex networks, wherein single brain regions or modules and their connections are respectively identified with network nodes and the links connecting them. Often, the goal of a given study is not that of modelling brain activity but, more basically, to discriminate between experimental conditions or populations, thus to find a way to compute differences between them. This in turn involves two important aspects: defining discriminative features and quantifying differences between them. Here we show that the ranked dynamical stability of network features, from links or nodes to higher-level network properties, discriminates well between healthy brain activity and various pathological conditions. These easily computable properties, which constitute local but topographically aspecific aspects of brain activity, greatly simplify inter-network comparisons and spare the need for network pruning. Our results are discussed in terms of microstate stability. Some implications for functional brain activity are discussed.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-15
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-06497-w
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  10. Article ; Online: Diurnal emotional reactivity: Ultradian changes at neural and behavioral levels in men.

    Hot, Pascal / Sequeira, Henrique

    Chronobiology international

    2015  Volume 32, Issue 5, Page(s) 687–696

    Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the ultradian dynamic of emotional processing in men. Event-related potentials were recorded while participants watched different sets of unpleasant and neutral pictures every 15 min for 3 h. Emotional feelings ... ...

    Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the ultradian dynamic of emotional processing in men. Event-related potentials were recorded while participants watched different sets of unpleasant and neutral pictures every 15 min for 3 h. Emotional feelings induced by unpleasant pictures were also assessed with self-rating scales at the end of each picture set. Whereas brain processing of neutral pictures remained stable over time, a late positive component elicited by unpleasant pictures presented ultradian oscillations varying between 65 and 110 min in 77% of the participants, mainly in the right centro-posterior area. Ultradian rhythms were also observed for values self-rating the intensity of unpleasant feelings. Correlative analyses performed between brain and behavioral ultradian oscillations indicated that these rhythms follow a temporal opposite pattern. For the first time, these results raise questions regarding the modulating role of ultradian oscillations when the brain computes the significance of unpleasant stimuli and produces the final emotional feelings. Overall, these findings open new perspectives on the temporal regulation of emotional reactivity in healthy individuals and in those with affective disorders.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Behavior/physiology ; Brain/physiology ; Circadian Rhythm/physiology ; Electroencephalography ; Emotions/physiology ; Evoked Potentials/physiology ; Humans ; Male ; Photic Stimulation/methods ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-06
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 998996-1
    ISSN 1525-6073 ; 0742-0528
    ISSN (online) 1525-6073
    ISSN 0742-0528
    DOI 10.3109/07420528.2015.1039645
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