<story><title>Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40666-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychphysic</author><text>The paper suggests rTMS to disrupt the disruptive activities.&lt;p&gt;The emotional challenge in this study was that you had a joystick and sometimes you pulled that joystick towards you when you saw an unhappy face. That&amp;#x27;s what was paralysing emotional challenge was for highly anxious people. Meaning it&amp;#x27;s unlikely their PFl could have any control in real life scenarios. It&amp;#x27;s important to note that in both anxious and non-anxious people the PFl was highly excitable. It&amp;#x27;s the pattern of its activity that makes a difference.&lt;p&gt;Cognition is hard work and the truth is you can&amp;#x27;t reason about your entire life and expect much success. Like driving a car as a learner your whole life, I remember the first driving lesson I had, I couldn&amp;#x27;t even focus with the radio on. Imagine if every time you got in you had less intuition about how to drive.&lt;p&gt;Think of the absence of fpi as a lack of intuition you get once you learn to drive.&lt;p&gt;CBT +&amp;#x2F;- an SSRI for 6months is a small price to pay to regain intuition.</text></item><item><author>riazrizvi</author><text>So, heightened anxiety triggers alternate emotional regulation, with traits like pro-avoidance behavior.&lt;p&gt;To me this is not necessarily dysfunctional. It may also go hand-in-hand with motivating heightened deliberation. I can see how one can fall into  regressive patterns like distracting ourselves away from critical path actions, especially if a particular person only uses one of two strategies, 1) try going on as before or 2) try forgetting we need to go this way.&lt;p&gt;I take a more neutral approach on the finding and don’t yet assume this is something that is best medicated out of. 
They show that &lt;i&gt;even mild emotional challenges can saturate FPl neural range&lt;/i&gt;, which to me is simply a greater sensitivity that can be easily overloaded (like when you put the voltmeter on a more sensitive setting).
Exposure Therapy is a methodical, deliberate, routine heavy strategy. ET doesn’t simply get us to re-engage, it gets us to re-engage with new and different behavior, which may be essential to success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xtiansimon</author><text>&amp;gt; “Like driving a car as a learner your whole life, I remember the first driving lesson I had, I couldn&amp;#x27;t even focus with the radio on.”&lt;p&gt;This reminded me of starting to ride a motorcycle (again) in 2021. Lots of anxiety and stress.&lt;p&gt;Two years later I’m not as stressed. But, each near-accident I’ve had was following not paying attention.&lt;p&gt;Thinking about this on a ride over the weekend, I mused about solo-jet fighter pilots and Olympians. I recalled breathing exercises are supposed to help.&lt;p&gt;Reading the abstract, I’m reminded of awkward social situations and inexperience in primary school. I’m thinking the biggest lesson was trying, and realizing failure is not life threatening. But it didn’t stop me from developing some bad habits for cheating on tests, and waiting until the last 48 hours to write my papers.&lt;p&gt;I think getting a job at 16 helped a lot. It was at a comic book shop. I held that job for seven years.</text></comment>
<story><title>Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40666-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychphysic</author><text>The paper suggests rTMS to disrupt the disruptive activities.&lt;p&gt;The emotional challenge in this study was that you had a joystick and sometimes you pulled that joystick towards you when you saw an unhappy face. That&amp;#x27;s what was paralysing emotional challenge was for highly anxious people. Meaning it&amp;#x27;s unlikely their PFl could have any control in real life scenarios. It&amp;#x27;s important to note that in both anxious and non-anxious people the PFl was highly excitable. It&amp;#x27;s the pattern of its activity that makes a difference.&lt;p&gt;Cognition is hard work and the truth is you can&amp;#x27;t reason about your entire life and expect much success. Like driving a car as a learner your whole life, I remember the first driving lesson I had, I couldn&amp;#x27;t even focus with the radio on. Imagine if every time you got in you had less intuition about how to drive.&lt;p&gt;Think of the absence of fpi as a lack of intuition you get once you learn to drive.&lt;p&gt;CBT +&amp;#x2F;- an SSRI for 6months is a small price to pay to regain intuition.</text></item><item><author>riazrizvi</author><text>So, heightened anxiety triggers alternate emotional regulation, with traits like pro-avoidance behavior.&lt;p&gt;To me this is not necessarily dysfunctional. It may also go hand-in-hand with motivating heightened deliberation. I can see how one can fall into  regressive patterns like distracting ourselves away from critical path actions, especially if a particular person only uses one of two strategies, 1) try going on as before or 2) try forgetting we need to go this way.&lt;p&gt;I take a more neutral approach on the finding and don’t yet assume this is something that is best medicated out of. 
They show that &lt;i&gt;even mild emotional challenges can saturate FPl neural range&lt;/i&gt;, which to me is simply a greater sensitivity that can be easily overloaded (like when you put the voltmeter on a more sensitive setting).
Exposure Therapy is a methodical, deliberate, routine heavy strategy. ET doesn’t simply get us to re-engage, it gets us to re-engage with new and different behavior, which may be essential to success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riazrizvi</author><text>I think we might each be talking to different ends of the extreme here.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; recruitment of FPl when controlling emotional behavior fails in patients with emotional disorders&lt;p&gt;I won’t comment on people who have emotional disorders, or who have operated in this modality for very long periods of time. I’m more interested in it as a transient mechanism in people without disorders.</text></comment>