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. 2021 Aug 26;47(1):180–195. doi: 10.1038/s41386-021-01131-1

Fig. 5. The suppression of amygdala activity during retrieval stopping of aversive scenes and its relation to affect regulation.

Fig. 5

Top Panels. Whereas retrieving an aversive image during Think trials increased left and right amygdala activity (Green bars), suppressing retrieval on No-Think trials reduced it, more so during intrusions (light blue bars) than non-intrusions (blue bars). A similar though weaker pattern arose for neutral scenes. Bottom Panels. Intrusion-related down-regulations in the amygdala and anterior hippocampus were related to both reduced intrusion frequency and affect suppression (a reduction in perceived negative valence for the suppressed content), according to a behavioral partial least squares (PLS) analysis. Represented here are those voxels significantly associated to the first significant latent variable from PLS, whose downregulation significantly correlated with intrusion proportion for both Negative and Neutral scenes, as well as with affect suppression exclusively for Negative scenes. Error bars indicate bootstrapped 95% CI.