Abstract #2764

Alteration in negative emotional regulation associated with childhood abuse: fMRI study

Seungho Kim¹, Sang Won Lee², Kyungeun Jang¹, Hyunsil Cha¹, Heajung Choi¹, Eunji Kim¹, Jiung Yang¹, Jinsu Park¹, Huijin Song³, Hui Joong Lee⁴, Moon Jung Hwang⁵, Seung Jae Lee², and Yongmin Chang^1,6

¹Department of Medical & Biological Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Psychiatry, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ³Institute of Biomedical Engineering Research, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Radiology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ⁵GE Healthcare, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁶Department of Radiology and Molecular Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of

We assessed negative emotional regulation in young adults who experienced childhood abuse. We investigated a relationship between psychological data and brain activation during emotion regulation task. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) showed significant correlation with the degree of childhood abuse in negative emotion task.

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