Goal pursuit despite emotional distraction: Neural-network mechanisms of emotional interference inhibition and their role for resilience (C04)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2016 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 264810226

Emotional interference inhibition (EII), i.e., inhibition of salient emotional stimuli to pursue goal-directed behavior despite emotional distraction, is considered a general resilience mechanism. In the first funding period, we have identified a brain network with specific spectral signatures common to various types of EII and correlating with proxy measures of resilience. Using information theoretic, pharmacological and neuromodulatory approaches, we now aim to gain mechanistic and causal understanding of the function of this network and its role as a resilience mechanism.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1193: Neurobiology of Resilience to stress-related mental dysfunction: from understanding mechanisms to promoting prevention
• Applicant Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Project Heads: Dr. Florian Müller-Dahlhaus; Professor Dr. Oliver Tüscher; Professor Dr. Michael Wibral