Luo Yangmei, Chen Xuhai, Qi Senqing, You Xuqun, Huang Xiting
Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China.
Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality of Ministry of Education, School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jan 9;8:2199. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02199. eCollection 2017.
Anticipation for future confers great benefits to human well-being and mental health. However, previous work focus on how people's well-being correlate with brain activities during perception of emotional stimuli, rather than anticipation for the future events. Here, the current study investigated how well-being relates to neural circuitry underlying the anticipating process of future desired events. Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, 40 participants were scanned while they were performing an emotion anticipation task, in which they were instructed to anticipate the positive or neutral events. The results showed that bilateral medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) were activated during anticipation for positive events relative to neutral events, and the enhanced brain activation in MPFC was associated with higher level of well-being. The findings suggest a neural mechanism by which the anticipation process to future desired events correlates to human well-being, which provide a future-oriented view on the neural sources of well-being.
对未来的预期给人类福祉和心理健康带来极大益处。然而，先前的研究工作聚焦于人们在感知情绪刺激时的福祉与大脑活动如何关联，而非对未来事件的预期。在此，当前这项研究调查了福祉与未来期望事件预期过程背后的神经回路之间的关系。利用事件相关功能磁共振成像技术，40名参与者在执行情绪预期任务时接受扫描，在该任务中他们被指示预期积极或中性事件。结果显示，相对于中性事件，在预期积极事件期间双侧内侧前额叶皮质（MPFC）被激活，并且MPFC中增强的大脑激活与更高水平的福祉相关。这些发现表明了一种神经机制，通过该机制对未来期望事件的预期过程与人类福祉相关，这为福祉的神经来源提供了一个面向未来的视角。
