Open AccessEffects of Acute Drug Administration on Emotion: a Review of Pharmacological MRI Studies
Author(s) -
Kathryne Van Hedger,
Leah M. Mayo,
Anya K. Bershad,
Racheal Madray,
Harriet de Wit
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current addiction reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 2196-2952
DOI - 10.1007/s40429-021-00362-y
Subject(s) - amygdala , psychology , mdma , affect (linguistics) , drug , hallucinogen , neuroscience , neural correlates of consciousness , anhedonia , limbic system , brain activity and meditation , cognition , psychiatry , central nervous system , electroencephalography , dopamine , communication
Many drug users claim to use drugs to cope with negative emotions, which may, in turn, result in persistent emotional blunting or anhedonia even when they are not using drugs. The purpose of this review is to describe the ways acute administration of psychoactive drugs impacts brain regions during emotion-related tasks, as a first step in understanding how drugs influence emotion processing in the brain.