Characteristics of cognitive emotion regulation and its relationship with brain lesions in patients with hepatolenticular degeneration / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the characteristics of cognitive emotion regulation in patients with hepatolenticular degeneration, and the relationship with brain lesions.Methods:The Chinese version of cognitive emotion regulation (CERQ-C) was used to investigate 78 patients with hepatolenticular degeneration(WD group) and 84 healthy adults, and all patients were examined with brain 3.0 T magnetic resonance.The characteristics of cognitive and emotional regulation in WD group were analyzed when they encounterd negative life events, and the differences between WD group and healthy people.The relationship was further analyzed between different brain structure damage and cognitive emotion regulation combined with brain MRI.Results:(1)The scores of self censure, contemplation and catastrophes in WD group((11.41±2.46), (11.27±3.09), (9.53±2.85), respectively) were significantly higher than those in healthy control group(respectively(9.57±2.81), (9.79±2.63), (8.05±2.42))( t=4.417, 3.409, 3.563, P<0.01). The scores of refocus planning and positive reevaluation ((13.26±3.41), (13.49±3.14)) in MD group were significantly lower than those of the healthy control group ((14.88±2.57), (14.42±2.41))( t=-3.404, -2.103, P<0.05). (2)Multiple linear regression analysis showed that frontal lobe injury was the influencing factor of the score of positive re-evaluation ( B=-2.142, P=0.035), thalamic injury ( B=2.058, P=0.037) and putamen injury ( B=-2.348, P=0.011) were the influencing factors of the score of contemplation. Conclusion:WD patients are more likely to choose self censure, contemplation and catastrophes than healthy people when they encounter negative life events.Different brain regions have different effects on the choice of cognitive emotion regulation in WD patients.