During times of emotional stress, individuals often engage in emotion regulation to reduce
the experiential and physiological impact of negative emotions. Interestingly, emotion�…

Emotion has a lasting effect on memory, encouraging certain aspects of our experiences to
become durable parts of our memory stores. Although emotion exerts its influence at every�…

Affective experiences are commonly represented by either transient emotional reactions to
discrete events or longer term, sustained mood states that are characterized by a more�…

Emotional memories are better remembered than neutral ones. The amygdala is involved in
this enhancement not only by modulating the hippocampal activity, but possibly also by�…

Emotional experiences are typically remembered with a greater sense of recollection than
neutral experiences, but memory benefits for emotional items do not typically extend to their�…

INTRODUCTION it is a notorious fact that what interests us most vividly at the time is... what
we remember best. An experience may be so exciting emotionally as almost to leave a scar�…

BACKGROUND: Although the ability to adaptively reflect on negative autobiographical
experiences without ruminating is critical to mental health, to our knowledge no research�…

The purpose of this chapter is to review some of the empirical findings in the study of
memory for emotional events, focusing on memory for negative emotional or traumatic�…

Over the past decade, fMRI techniques have been increasingly used to interrogate the
neural correlates of successful emotional memory encoding. These investigations have�…

The hippocampus and caudate nucleus are anatomical components of relatively
independent memory systems and recent research has focused on the nature of the�…