Emotion-regulation training reduces distress and changes the brain, team reports

A five-week training intervention taught college students to better regulate their emotions in response to negative events, a new study finds. After the training, the students reported less emotional distress when viewing negative images or thinking about difficult events in their own lives, and brain scans revealed corresponding changes in the spontaneous functional connectivity of their brains.

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