CellWell record HH-5062
Putting feelings into words: Affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli
Lieberman MD et al.
Psychol Sci ยท 2007
In plain language
In an fMRI study, labeling the emotion shown in a negative image (choosing a word like 'angry') reduced amygdala activity compared with just viewing the image, and increased activity in a prefrontal region linked to cognitive control. This supports 'name it to tame it' as a real neural pattern in a lab task, not a clinical outcome trial.
- Evidence
- Established
- Studied in
- Human
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