Abstract: In recent years, researches on brain mechanisms of emotion regulation have made much progress, along with multiple utilization of the brain imaging. New theoretical model of neural mechanisms of emotion regulation has been proposed, bringing with an alternative perspective of emotion regulation. The research focus has been extended from conscious emotion regulation to unconscious or automatic emotion regulation. The range of emotions in this field is expanded and more attention is focused on specific emotions, changing from negative and positive emotions to sadness, anxiety and so on. Emotional regulation strategies becomes much more clear and various, and the research focus are no longer limited to neural correlates of reappraisal and suppression, more attention are being paid to neural networks of distraction or self-distraction. Furthermore, the target research groups are extended to clients of affective disorders, and the relationship between abnormalities in neural mechanisms of emotion regulation and the occurrence of affective disorders is becoming an important issue in this field. In addition, concerns about individual differences in brain mechanisms and their implications for clinical diagnosis and therapy are also arising. In order to promote the research in this field, the present article makes a full introduction of research results on brain mechanisms of emotion regulation, and future research directions are also proposed

Key words: emotion regulation, emotional regulation strategy, brain mechanisms

摘要： 随着脑成像等新技术的运用，关于情绪调节脑机制的研究有了很大进展。近期国外情绪调节脑机制的研究在理论模型上有了新发展；研究关注的情绪调节从有意情绪调节扩展到自动情绪调节；研究针对的情绪、情绪调节策略以及目标群体都有了进一步的扩展和深化；情绪调节脑机制的个体差异研究也有了新进展。本文试图对近期国外情绪调节脑机制研究的发展状况进行梳理，并展望未来研究方向，以期为国内研究提供参考。

关键词: 情绪调节, 情绪调节策略, 脑机制