4.3. Emotion processing
Emotion processing has been investigated both implicitly andexplicitly, using mainly emotional faces as stimuli. More recently,emotion regulation paradigms have been used. Originally, an exten-sion of Drapier’s study was performed by Surguladze et al. (2010)using an implicit emotional face recognition task. They showedthat, with no differences in RT or accuracy, both BDP and their URhad a significant increase in the activation of the mPFC in responseto both happy and fearful faces and in the left putamen to mod-erately fearful faces, compared to control. When amygdalae wereanalyzed by a ROI approach, both BDP and their UR showed greateractivation in the left amygdala in response to intensely happy facescompared to controls.