TY - JOUR
AU1 - Brassen, Stefanie
AU2 - Gamer, Matthias
AU3 - Peters, Jan
AU4 - Gluth, Sebastian
AU5 - Büchel, Christian
AB - 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.
TI - Don't look back in anger! Responsiveness to missed chances in successful and nonsuccessful aging.
JF - Science (New York, N.Y.)
DO - 10.1126/science.1217516
DA - 2012-05-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/pubmed/don-t-look-back-in-anger-responsiveness-to-missed-chances-in-FaucEc1mZg
SP - 612
EP - 4
VL - 336
IS - 6081
DP - DeepDyve
ER -