Table 3.

Neuroimaging Studies of Emotional Autobiographical Memory

Study	Description	Key finding
(Fink et al., 1996)	PET study of listening to affect-laden autobiographical memories.	Right mesial temporal activity, including the amygdala.
(Piefke et al., 2003)	fMRI study of reading emotional autobiographical memories.	Medial PFC activity during presentation of positive versus negative memories; right temporal activity during presentation of negative memories.
(Piefke, Weiss, Markowitsch, & Fink, 2005)	Same as above.	Greater right-insula activity in women during presentation of negative memories.
(Markowitsch et al., 2000)	PET study of processing real versus fictitious autobiographical memories.	Right-amygdala activity during real but not fictitious memories.
(Markowitsch, Vandekerckhove, Lanfermann, & Russ, 2003)	fMRI study of retrieval of strongly positive or strongly negative autobiographical events.	Bilateral medial PFC activity during retrieval of sad versus happy memories.
(Greenberg et al., 2005)	Event-related fMRI study of autobiographical memory retrieval.	Left amygdala and hippocampal; right-PFC activity during autobiographical retrieval compared with semantic retrieval.
(Addis, Moscovitch, Crawley, & McAndrews, 2004)	Event-related fMRI study of cue-induced retrieval of autobiographical events.	Emotion rating of memory modulated hippocampal activity during retrieval.

Note. PET = positron emission tomography; fMRI = functional magnetic resonance imaging; PFC = prefrontal cortex.