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Li Z, Jiang K, Zhu Y, Du H, Im H, Zhu Y, Feng L, Zhu W, Zhao G, Jia X, Hu Y, Zhu H, Yao Q, Wang H, Wang Q. Happy people are always similar: The evidence from brain morphological and functional inter-subject correlations. Neuroimage 2024; 297:120690. [PMID: 38880309 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2024] [Revised: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024] Open
Abstract
A fundamental question in the study of happiness is whether there is neural evidence to support a well-known hypothesis that happy people are always similar while unfortunate people have their own misfortunes. To investigate this, we employed several happiness-related questionnaires to identify potential components of happiness, and further investigated and confirmed their associations with personality, mood, aggressive behaviors, and amygdala reactivity to fearful faces within a substantial sample size of college students (n = 570). Additionally, we examined the functional and morphological similarities and differences among happy individuals using the inter-subject representational similarity analysis (IS-RSA). IS-RSA emphasizes the geometric properties in a high-dimensional space constructed by brain or behavioral patterns and focuses on individual subjects. Our behavioral findings unveiled two factors of happiness: individual and social, both of which mediated the effect of personality traits on individual aggression. Subsequently, mood mediated the impact of happiness on aggressive behaviors across two subgroup splits. Functional imaging data revealed that individuals with higher levels of happiness exhibited reduced amygdala reactivity to fearful faces, as evidenced by a conventional face-matching task (n = 104). Moreover, IS-RSA demonstrated that these participants manifested similar neural activation patterns when processing fearful faces within the visual pathway, but not within the emotional network (e.g., amygdala). Morphological observations (n = 425) indicated that individuals with similar high happiness levels exhibited comparable gray matter volume patterns within several networks, including the default mode network, fronto-parietal network, visual network, and attention network. Collectively, these findings offer early neural evidence supporting the proposition that happy individuals may share common neural characteristics.
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- Zixi Li
- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Normal College of Shihezi University, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science of Anhui Province on Adolescent Mental Health and Crisis Intelligence Intervention, Hefei 230601, China; School of Educational and Psychological Science, Hefei Normal University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China.
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China; Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science of Anhui Province on Adolescent Mental Health and Crisis Intelligence Intervention, Hefei 230601, China.
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Jiang K, Zhao G, Feng Q, Guan S, Im H, Zhang B, Wang P, Jia X, Zhu H, Zhu Y, Wang H, Wang Q. The computational and neural substrates of individual differences in impulsivity under loss framework. Hum Brain Mapp 2024; 45:e26808. [PMID: 39126347 PMCID: PMC11316248 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2024] [Revised: 07/08/2024] [Accepted: 07/21/2024] [Indexed: 08/12/2024] Open
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Numerous neuroimaging studies have identified significant individual variability in intertemporal choice, often attributed to three neural mechanisms: (1) increased reward circuit activity, (2) decreased cognitive control, and (3) prospection ability. These mechanisms that explain impulsivity, however, have been primarily studied in the gain domain. This study extends this investigation to the loss domain. We employed a hierarchical Bayesian drift-diffusion model (DDM) and the inter-subject representational similarity approach (IS-RSA) to investigate the potential computational neural substrates underlying impulsivity in loss domain across two experiments (n = 155). These experiments utilized a revised intertemporal task that independently manipulated the amounts of immediate and delayed-loss options. Behavioral results demonstrated positive correlations between the drift rate, measured by the DDM, and the impulsivity index K in Exp. 1 (n = 97) and were replicated in Exp. 2 (n = 58). Imaging analyses further revealed that the drift rate significantly mediated the relations between brain properties (e.g., prefrontal cortex activations and gray matter volume in the orbitofrontal cortex and precuneus) and K in Exp. 1. IS-RSA analyses indicated that variability in the drift rate also mediated the associations between inter-subject variations in activation patterns and individual differences in K. These findings suggest that individuals with similar impulsivity levels are likely to exhibit similar value processing patterns, providing a potential explanation for individual differences in impulsivity within a loss framework.
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- Keying Jiang
- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Epilepsy Center, Tsinghua University Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western MedicineBeijingChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Normal CollegeShihezi UniversityShiheziChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Institute of Biomedical EngineeringChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science of Anhui Province on Adolescent Mental Health and Crisis Intelligence InterventionHefeiChina
- Institute of Mathematics and Interdisciplinary SciencesTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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Kaas J, Stepniewska I. The basal ganglia are a target for sensorimotor domains in posterior parietal, premotor, and motor cortex in primates. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2023; 83:102783. [PMID: 37734361 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2023.102783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023]
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Our research focused on defining and characterizing parieto-frontal circuits for specific actions in primates. Part of the posterior parietal cortex is divided into eight or more domains where electrical stimulation evokes a meaningful complex movement. Domains in the posterior parietal cortex compete with each other over excitatory connections that activate inhibitory neurons, while selectively activating functionally matched domains in the premotor cortex and motor cortex. Thus, the selection process involves competition and cooperation between domains over three different regions of cortex. In addition, projections from functionally matched domains in motor regions converge in the matrix of the striatum, whereas projections from different functionally unmatched domains are separate. Thus, the projections of action-specific domains include the basal ganglia, where actions can be permitted or blocked.
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- Jon Kaas
- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 301 Wilson Hall, Nashville TN 37240, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 301 Wilson Hall, Nashville TN 37240, USA
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Wang P, Chen S, Deng K, Zhang B, Im H, Feng J, Liu L, Yang Q, Zhao G, He Q, Chen C, Wang H, Wang Q. Distributed attribute representation in the superior parietal lobe during probabilistic decision-making. Hum Brain Mapp 2023; 44:5693-5711. [PMID: 37614216 PMCID: PMC10619403 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Revised: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023] Open
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Several studies have examined the neural substrates of probabilistic decision-making, but few have systematically investigated the neural representations of the two objective attributes of probabilistic rewards, that is, the reward amount and the probability. Specifically, whether there are common or distinct neural activity patterns to represent the objective attributes and their association with the neural representation of the subjective valuation remains largely underexplored. We conducted two studies (nStudy1 = 34, nStudy2 = 41) to uncover distributed neural representations of the objective attributes and subjective value as well as their association with individual probability discounting rates. The amount and probability were independently manipulated to better capture brain signals sensitive to these two attributes and were presented simultaneously in Study 1 and successively in Study 2. Both univariate and multivariate pattern analyses showed that the brain activities in the superior parietal lobule (SPL), including the postcentral gyrus, were modulated by the amount of rewards and probability in both studies. Further, representational similarity analysis revealed a similar neural representation between these two objective attributes and between the attribute and valuation. Moreover, the SPL tracked the subjective value integrated by the hyperbolic function. Probability-related brain activations in the inferior parietal lobule were associated with the variability in individual discounting rates. These findings provide novel insights into a similar neural representation of the two attributes during probabilistic decision-making and perhaps support the common neural coding of stimulus objective properties and subjective value in the field of probabilistic discounting.
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- Pinchun Wang
- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Department of Psychological ScienceUniversity of California IrvineIrvineCaliforniaUSA
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and BehaviorTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and LearningTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and BehaviorTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and LearningTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and BehaviorTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and LearningTianjinChina
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- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and PersonalitySouthwest UniversityChongqingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchBeijing Normal UniversityBeijingChina
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- Institute of Biomedical EngineeringChinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical CollegeTianjinChina
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- Faculty of PsychologyTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and BehaviorTianjin Normal UniversityTianjinChina
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and LearningTianjinChina
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Wenzel JM, Zlebnik NE, Patton MH, Smethells JR, Ayvazian VM, Dantrassy HM, Zhang LY, Mathur BN, Cheer JF. Selective chemogenetic inactivation of corticoaccumbal projections disrupts trait choice impulsivity. Neuropsychopharmacology 2023; 48:1821-1831. [PMID: 37208501 PMCID: PMC10579332 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-023-01604-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Impulsive choice has enduring trait-like characteristics and is defined by preference for small immediate rewards over larger delayed ones. Importantly, it is a determining factor in the development and persistence of substance use disorder (SUD). Emerging evidence from human and animal studies suggests frontal cortical regions exert influence over striatal reward processing areas during decision-making in impulsive choice or delay discounting (DD) tasks. The goal of this study was to examine how these circuits are involved in decision-making in animals with defined trait impulsivity. To this end, we trained adolescent male rats to stable behavior on a DD procedure and then re-trained them in adulthood to assess trait-like, conserved impulsive choice across development. We then used chemogenetic tools to selectively and reversibly target corticostriatal projections during performance of the DD task. The prelimbic region of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) was injected with a viral vector expressing inhibitory designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs (Gi-DREADD), and then mPFC projections to the nucleus accumbens core (NAc) were selectively suppressed by intra-NAc administration of the Gi-DREADD actuator clozapine-n-oxide (CNO). Inactivation of the mPFC-NAc projection elicited a robust increase in impulsive choice in rats with lower vs. higher baseline impulsivity. This demonstrates a fundamental role for mPFC afferents to the NAc during choice impulsivity and suggests that maladaptive hypofrontality may underlie decreased executive control in animals with higher levels of choice impulsivity. Results such as these may have important implications for the pathophysiology and treatment of impulse control, SUDs, and related psychiatric disorders.
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- Jennifer M Wenzel
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, 92110, USA.
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
- Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA
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- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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Wei S, Jin W, Zhu W, Chen S, Feng J, Wang P, Im H, Deng K, Zhang B, Zhang M, Yang S, Peng M, Wang Q. Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2023; 18:6646951. [PMID: 35856605 PMCID: PMC10036871 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsac046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Revised: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Greed personality trait (GPT), characterized by the desire to acquire more and the dissatisfaction of never having enough, has been hypothesized to link with negative emotion/affect characteristics and aggressive behaviors. To describe its emotion-related features, we utilized a series of scales to measure corresponding emotion/affect and aggression (n = 411) and collected their neuroimaging data (n = 330) to explore underlying morphological substrates. Correlational analyses revealed that greedy individuals show more negative symptoms (e.g. depression, loss of interest, negative affect), lower psychological well-being and more aggression. Mediation analyses further demonstrated that negative symptoms and psychological well-being mediated greedy individuals' aggression. Moreover, exploratory factor analysis extracted factor scores across three factors (negative psychopathology, happiness, and motivation) from the measures scales. Negative psychopathology and happiness remained robust mediators. Importantly, these findings were replicated in an independent sample (n = 68). Voxel-based morphometry analysis also revealed that gray matter volumes (GMVs) in the prefrontal-parietal-occipital system were associated with negative psychopathology and happiness, and GMVs in the frontal pole and middle frontal cortex mediated the relationships between GPT and aggressions. These findings provide novel insights into the negative characteristics of dispositional greed, and suggest their mediating roles on greedy individuals' aggression and underlying neuroanatomical substrates.
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- Shiyu Wei
- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin 300060, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine 92697-7085 CA, USA
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721 AZ, USA
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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Ye Y, Wang Y. Multivariate analysis differentiates intertemporal choices in both value and cognitive control network. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1037294. [PMID: 36925738 PMCID: PMC10011120 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1037294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Choices between immediate smaller reward and long-term larger reward are referred to as intertemporal choice. Numerous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have investigated the neural substrates of intertemporal choice via conventional univariate analytical approaches, revealing dissociable activations of decisions involving immediately available rewards and decisions involving delayed rewards in value network. With the help of multivariate analyses, which is more sensitive for evaluating information encoded in spatially distributed patterns, we showed that fMRI activity patterns represent viable signatures of intertemporal choice, as well as individual differences while controlling for age. Notably, in addition to value network, regions from cognitive control network play prominent roles in differentiating between different intertemporal choices as well as individuals with distinct discount rates. These findings provide clear evidence that substantiates the important role of value and cognitive control networks in the neural representation of one's intertemporal decisions.
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- Yuting Ye
- Institute of Psychology, School of Public Affairs, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Cui L, Ye M, Sun L, Zhang S, He G. Common and Distinct Neural Correlates of Intertemporal and Risky Decision-Making: Meta-Analytical Evidence for the Dual-System Theory. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2022; 141:104851. [PMID: 36058404 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Revised: 08/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/27/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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The relationship between intertemporal and risky decision-making has received considerable attention in decision research. Single-process theories suggest that choices involving delay and risk are simply two manifestations of the same psychological mechanism, which implies similar patterns of neural activation. Conversely, the dual-system theory suggests that delayed and risky choices are two contrasting types of processes, which implies distinct brain networks. How these two types of choices relate to each other remains unclear. The current study addressed this issue by performing a meta-analysis of 28 intertemporal decision-making studies (862 subjects) and 51 risky decision-making studies (1539 subjects). We found no common area activated in the conjunction analysis of the delayed and risky rewards. Based on the contrast analysis, delayed rewards were associated with stronger activation in the left dorsal insula, while risky rewards were associated with activation in the bilateral ventral striatum and the right anterior insula. The results align with the dual-system theory with separate neural networks for delayed and risky rewards.
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- Lidan Cui
- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China.
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- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China.
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Yu F, Huang Y, Chen T, Wang X, Guo Y, Fang Y, He K, Zhu C, Wang K, Zhang L. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation promotes response inhibition in patients with major depression during the stop-signal task. J Psychiatr Res 2022; 151:427-438. [PMID: 35597226 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Response inhibition (RI) deficit is an aspect of cognitive impairment in depressed individuals, but currently no effective treatment has been established. This study aimed to explore the effect of individualized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC)-nucleus accumbens (NAcc) network on RI in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS Fourty-four patients diagnosed with MDD were randomized to receive 15 once-daily sessions of active (10 Hz, 100% of resting motor threshold) or sham rTMS within a double-blind, sham-controlled trial. We measured the efficacy of rTMS by the improvements in behavioral and neurological manifestations during the stop-signal task. The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale-17 items (HAMD-17) was used to assess depressive symptoms. We analyzed the differences in RI performance between MDD patients and 30 healthy controls (HCs) at baseline and assessed whether MDD patients who completed rTMS treatment had comparable RI ability to HCs. RESULTS At baseline, the depressed patients showed longer stop-signal response time (SSRT), smaller P3 amplitudes, and weaker theta-band power in successful stop trials (SSTs) than HCs. The active group exhibited RI ability comparable to that of HCs after rTMS treatment, but the improvements were not significant in the sham group. The active group showed significant remission in depression symptoms post-treatment compared to the sham group, and the changes in P3 amplitudes and theta-band power during SSTs were negatively correlated with the decrease of HAMD-17 scores. CONCLUSION The depressed patients have impaired RI and treatment with the individualized rTMS protocol may be an effective approach.
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- Fengqiong Yu
- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
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Wang P, Feng J, Wang Y, Zhu W, Wei S, Im H, Wang Q. Sex-specific static and dynamic functional networks of sub-divisions of striatum linking to the greed personality trait. Neuropsychologia 2021; 163:108066. [PMID: 34678357 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The study of greed has been broadly investigated and discussed in the field of social sciences, including economics, political science, and psychology. However, the neural mechanisms underlying greed personality trait (GPT) have received little attention from the cognitive neuroscience field and still remain unclear. In this study, we explored the associations between GPT and static/dynamic reward circuit-specifically its sub-regions' functional networks including caudate, nucleus accumbens (NAcc), and putamen. Behavioral analyses revealed significant associations of GPT with Past-Negative and Present-Fatalistic time attitude as well as attention impulsivity. Imaging analyses revealed a significant interaction effect between sex and GPT on the static reward functional networks. In particular, GPT was positively correlated with static caudate-NAcc, caudate-cerebellum, and NAcc-parahippocampus/medial orbitofrontal cortex (PHG/mOFC) for males but negatively correlated for females. GPT was also marginally and negatively correlated with static putamen-occipital pole functional connectivities among males. Interestingly, sex difference interaction patterns were further observed in the dynamic reward functional networks. Further, dynamic reward functional networks also exhibited some specific characteristics, manifesting in more brain regions involved for greedy behaviors. These findings suggest sex-specific static and dynamic functional networks underlying human dispositional greed, and also implicate the critical contributions of reward circuit, especially for sub-circuits of reward, on greed.
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- Pinchun Wang
- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, 92697-7085, CA, USA.
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China; Key Research Base of Humanities and Social of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China; Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin, 300387, China.
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Wang Q, Wang Y, Wang P, Peng M, Zhang M, Zhu Y, Wei S, Chen C, Chen X, Luo S, Bai X. Neural representations of the amount and the delay time of reward in intertemporal decision making. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:3450-3469. [PMID: 33934449 PMCID: PMC8249888 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
Numerous studies have examined the neural substrates of intertemporal decision-making, but few have systematically investigated separate neural representations of the two attributes of future rewards (i.e., the amount of the reward and the delay time). More importantly, no study has used the novel analytical method of representational connectivity analysis (RCA) to map the two dimensions' functional brain networks at the level of multivariate neural representations. This study independently manipulated the amount and delay time of rewards during an intertemporal decision task. Both univariate and multivariate pattern analyses showed that brain activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) and lateral frontal pole cortex (LFPC) was modulated by the amount of rewards, whereas brain activity in the DMPFC and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) was modulated by the length of delay. Moreover, representational similarity analysis (RSA) revealed that even for the regions of the DMPFC that overlapped between the two dimensions, they manifested distinct neural activity patterns. In terms of individual differences, those with large delay discounting rates (k) showed greater DMPFC and LFPC activity as the amount of rewards increased but showed lower DMPFC and DLPFC activity as the delay time increased. Lastly, RCA suggested that the topological metrics (i.e., global and local efficiency) of the functional connectome subserving the delay time dimension inversely predicted individual discounting rate. These findings provide novel insights into neural representations of the two attributes in intertemporal decisions, and offer a new approach to construct task-based functional brain networks whose topological properties are related to impulsivity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Qiang Wang
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Faculty of Education, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- The National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders & Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin, China
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Wang Q, Wei S, Im H, Zhang M, Wang P, Zhu Y, Wang Y, Bai X. Neuroanatomical and functional substrates of the greed personality trait. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 226:1269-1280. [PMID: 33683479 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02240-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Greedy individuals often exhibit more impulsive decision-making and short-sighted behaviors. It has been assumed that altered reward circuitry and prospection network is associated with greed personality trait (GPT). In this study, we first explored the morphological characteristics (i.e., gray matter volume; GMV) of GPT combined with univariate and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) approaches. Second, we adopted a revised version of inter-temporal choice task and independently manipulated the amount and delay time of future rewards. Using brain-imaging design, reward- and prospection-related brain activations were assessed and their associations with GPT were further examined. The MVPA results showed that GPT was associated with the GMVs in the right lateral frontal pole cortex, left ventromedial prefrontal cortex, right lateral occipital cortex, and right occipital pole. Additionally, we observed that the amount-relevant brain activations (responding to reward circuitry) in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex were negatively associated with individual's variability in GPT scores, whereas the delay time-relevant brain activations (responding to prospection network system) in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, superior parietal lobule, and anterior cingulate cortex were positively associated with individual's variability in GPT scores. These findings not only provide novel insights into the neuroanatomical substrates underlying the human dispositional greed, but also suggest the critical roles of reward and prospection processing on the greed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Qiang Wang
- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-7085, USA
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- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China.
- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China.
- Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students' Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin, 300387, China.
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