Older adults use a prefrontal regulatory mechanism to reduce negative memory vividness of a highly emotional real-world event

This study replicated previous episodic memory tasks: age was associated with more negative hippocampal connectivity with dorsomedial prefrontal regions during retrieval of memories triggered by negative relative to positive cues. Such findings suggest that older adults may be recruiting a similar regulatory mechanism during retrieval of both negative laboratory stimuli and highly negative events from their past. These findings are discussed in relation to previous work showing that young and older adults interact differently with the negative details related to a highly negative event.
Source: NeuroReport - Category: Neurology Tags: Integrative Systems Source Type: research