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Wu GR, Baeken C. Precision targeting in prediction for rTMS clinical outcome in depression: what about sgACC lateralization, metabolic connectivity, and the potential role of the cerebellum? Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2023; 273:1443-1450. [PMID: 37329365 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-023-01637-3] [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: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Predicting clinical response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in medication-resistant depression (MRD) has gained great importance in recent years. Mainly, the right subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) functional connectivity has been put forward as biomarker in relation to rTMS clinical outcome. Even though the left and right sgACC may have different neurobiological functions, little is known about the possible lateralized predictive role of the sgACC in rTMS clinical outcome. In 43 right-handed antidepressant-free MRD patients, we applied a searchlight-based interregional covariance connectivity approach using the baseline 18FDG-PET scan-collected from two previous high-frequency (HF)-rTMS treatment studies delivering stimulation to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)-and investigated whether unilateral or bilateral sgACC glucose metabolism at baseline would result in different predictive metabolic connectivity patterns. Regardless of sgACC lateralization, the weaker the sgACC seed-based baseline metabolic functional connections with the (left anterior) cerebellar areas, the significantly better the clinical outcome. However, the seed diameter seems to be crucial. Similar significant findings on sgACC metabolic connectivity with the left anterior cerebellum, also unrelated to sgACC lateralization, in relation to clinical outcome were observed when using the HCPex atlas. Although we could not substantiate that specifically right sgACC metabolic connectivity would predict HF-rTMS clinical outcome, our findings suggest considering the entire sgACC in functional connectivity predictions. Given that the interregional covariance connectivity results were significant only when using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and not with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), our sgACC metabolic connectivity observations also suggest the possible involvement of the (left) anterior cerebellum involved in higher-order cognitive processing as part of this predictive value.
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- Guo-Rong Wu
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
- School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital (UZBrussel), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Wu GR, Baeken C. Lateralized subgenual ACC metabolic connectivity patterns in refractory melancholic depression: does it matter? Cereb Cortex 2022; 33:3490-3497. [PMID: 35984291 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac286] [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: 04/06/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Although treatment resistance to antidepressant pharmacotherapy is quite common, the phenomenon of refractory major depressive disorder (rMDD) is not well understood. Nevertheless, the metabolic activity of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) has been put forward as a possible metabolic biomarker of clinical prediction and response, albeit sgACC lateralization differences in functional connectivity have not yet been extensively examined. Also not in the refractory depressed state. To examine sgACC lateralization differences in metabolic connectivity, we recruited 43 right-handed antidepressant-free unipolar melancholic rMDD patients and 32 right-handed healthy controls to participate in this 18FDG PET study and developed a searchlight-based interregional covariance connectivity approach. Compared to non-depressed individuals, sgACC covariance analysis showed stronger metabolic connections with frontolimbic brain regions known to be affected in the depressed state. Furthermore, whereas the left sgACC showed stronger metabolic connections with ventromedial prefrontal cortical regions, implicated in anhedonia, suicidal ideation, and self-referential processes, the right sgACC showed significantly stronger metabolic connections with posterior hippocampal and cerebellar regions, respectively specialized in memory and social processing. Overall, our results substantiate earlier research that the sgACC is a metabolic key player when clinically depressed and that distinct lateralized sgACC metabolic connectivity patterns are present.
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Affiliation(s)
- Guo-Rong Wu
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.,School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China.,Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium.,Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital (UZBrussel), Brussels 1090, Belgium.,Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5600 MB, The Netherlands
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Neural correlates of emotion-attention interactions: From perception, learning, and memory to social cognition, individual differences, and training interventions. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2020; 108:559-601. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Wu GR, De Raedt R, Van Schuerbeek P, Baeken C. Opposite subgenual cingulate cortical functional connectivity and metabolic activity patterns in refractory melancholic major depression. Brain Imaging Behav 2018; 14:426-435. [DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-0011-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Leppanen J, Cardi V, Paloyelis Y, Simmons A, Tchanturia K, Treasure J. FMRI Study of Neural Responses to Implicit Infant Emotion in Anorexia Nervosa. Front Psychol 2017; 8:780. [PMID: 28567026 PMCID: PMC5434152 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Difficulties in social–emotional processing have been proposed to play an important role in the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa (AN). Few studies, thus far, have investigated neural processes that underlie these difficulties, including processing emotional facial expressions. However, the majority of these studies have investigated neural responses to adult emotional display, which may be confounded by elevated sensitivity to social rank and threat in AN. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the neural processes underlying implicit processing of positively and negatively valenced infant emotional display in AN. Twenty-one adult women with AN and twenty-six healthy comparison (HC) women were presented with images of positively valenced, negatively valenced, and neutral infant faces during a fMRI scan. Significant differences between the groups in positive > neutral and negative > neutral contrasts were investigated in a priori regions of interest, including the bilateral amygdala, insula, and lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC). The findings revealed that the AN participants showed relatively increased recruitment while the HC participants showed relatively reduced recruitment of the bilateral amygdala and the right dorsolateral PFC in the positive > neutral contrast. In the negative > neutral contrast, the AN group showed relatively increased recruitment of the left posterior insula while the HC groups showed relatively reduced recruitment of this region. These findings suggest that people with AN may engage in implicit prefrontal down-regulation of elevated limbic reactivity to positively social–emotional stimuli.
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- Jenni Leppanen
- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondon, UK
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondon, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondon, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondon, UK
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondon, UK.,Department of Psychology, Ilia State UniversityTbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondon, UK
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Cui X, Guo W, Wang Y, Yang TX, Yang XH, Wang Y, Gong J, Tan C, Xie G. Aberrant default mode network homogeneity in patients with first-episode treatment-naive melancholic depression. Int J Psychophysiol 2017; 112:46-51. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2016] [Revised: 12/02/2016] [Accepted: 12/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Vanderhasselt MA, De Raedt R, Namur V, Valiengo LCL, Lotufo PA, Bensenor IM, Baeken C, Boggio PS, Brunoni AR. Emotional reactivity to valence-loaded stimuli are related to treatment response of neurocognitive therapy. J Affect Disord 2016; 190:443-449. [PMID: 26551403 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2015.10.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2015] [Revised: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Emotional Context Insensitivity (ECI) is a psychological feature observed in depressed patients characterized by a decreased emotional reactivity when presented to positive- and negative valence-loaded stimuli. Given that fronto-cingulate-limbic circuits are implicated in abnormal reactivity to valence-loaded stimuli, neurocognitive treatments engaging the prefrontal cortex may be able to modulate this emotional blunting observed in MDD. Therefore, our goal was to evaluate emotional reactivity in depressed patients before and after a combination of neurocognitive interventions that engage the prefrontal cortex (cognitive control training and/or transcranial direct current stimulation). In line with the premises of the ECI framework, before the start of the antidepressant intervention, patients showed blunted emotional reactivity after exposure to negative valence-loaded stimuli. This emotional reactivity pattern changed after 9 sessions of the intervention: positive affect decreased and negative affect increased after watching a series of negative valence-loaded stimuli (i.e. images). Interestingly, higher emotional reactivity (as indexed by a larger increase in negative affect after watching the valence-loaded stimuli) at baseline predicted reductions in depression symptoms after the intervention. On the other hand, higher emotional reactivity (as indexed by a decrease in positive affect) after the intervention was marginally associated with reductions in depression symptoms. To conclude, emotional reactivity increased after the neurocognitive antidepressant intervention and it was directly associated to the degree of depression improvement.
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- Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt
- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium; Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Free University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
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- Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and Developmental Disorders Program, Centre for Health and Biological Sciences, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Neuromodulation & Clinical and Epidemiologic Research Center, University Hospital, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Service of Interdisciplinary Neuromodulation & Laboratory of Neurosciences (LIM-27), Department and Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Neuromodulation & Clinical and Epidemiologic Research Center, University Hospital, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Neuromodulation & Clinical and Epidemiologic Research Center, University Hospital, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium; University and Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital UZBrussel, Belgium
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and Developmental Disorders Program, Centre for Health and Biological Sciences, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Neuromodulation & Clinical and Epidemiologic Research Center, University Hospital, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Service of Interdisciplinary Neuromodulation & Laboratory of Neurosciences (LIM-27), Department and Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Neurostimulation as an intervention for treatment resistant depression: From research on mechanisms towards targeted neurocognitive strategies. Clin Psychol Rev 2015; 41:61-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2014.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2014] [Revised: 08/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Jaworska N, Yang XR, Knott V, MacQueen G. A review of fMRI studies during visual emotive processing in major depressive disorder. World J Biol Psychiatry 2015; 16:448-71. [PMID: 24635551 DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2014.885659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES This review synthesized literature on brain activity, indexed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), during visual affective information processing in major depressive disorder (MDD). Activation was examined in regions consistently implicated in emotive processing, including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), prefrontal cortex (PFC), amygdala, thalamus/basal ganglia and hippocampus. We also reviewed the effects of antidepressant interventions on brain activity during emotive processing. METHODS Sixty-four fMRI studies investigating neural activity during visual emotive information processing in MDD were included. RESULTS Evidence indicates increased ventro-rostral ACC activity to emotive stimuli and perhaps decreased dorsal ACC activity in MDD. Findings are inconsistent for the PFC, though medial PFC hyperactivity tends to emerge to emotive information processing in the disorder. Depressed patients display increased amygdala activation to negative and arousing stimuli. MDD may also be associated with increased activity to negative, and decreased activity to positive, stimuli in basal ganglia/thalamic structures. Finally, there may be increased hippocampus activation during negative information processing. Typically, antidepressant interventions normalize these activation patterns. CONCLUSION In general, depressed patients have increased activation to emotive, especially negative, visual stimuli in regions involved in affective processing, with the exception of certain PFC regions; this pattern tends to normalize with treatment.
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- Natalia Jaworska
- a Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education, Department of Psychiatry , University of Calgary , Calgary , AB , Canada.,b Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), University of Calgary , AB , Canada.,c Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI), University of Calgary , AB , Canada
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- a Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education, Department of Psychiatry , University of Calgary , Calgary , AB , Canada.,c Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI), University of Calgary , AB , Canada
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- d University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) , Ottawa , ON , Canada
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- a Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education, Department of Psychiatry , University of Calgary , Calgary , AB , Canada.,b Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), University of Calgary , AB , Canada
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Individual differences in brain structure and resting-state functional connectivity associated with Type A behavior pattern. Neuroscience 2014; 272:217-28. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.04.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2014] [Revised: 04/14/2014] [Accepted: 04/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Baeken C, Marinazzo D, Claes S, Wu GR, Van Schuerbeek P, De Mey J, Luypaert R, De Raedt R. COMT Val(158)Met genotypes differentially influence subgenual cingulate functional connectivity in healthy females. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:481. [PMID: 25071511 PMCID: PMC4074702 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 06/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Brain imaging studies have consistently shown subgenual Anterior Cingulate Cortical (sgACC) involvement in emotion processing. catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val(158) and Met(158) polymorphisms may influence such emotional brain processes in specific ways. Given that resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) may increase our understanding on brain functioning, we integrated genetic and rsfMRI data and focused on sgACC functional connections. No studies have yet investigated the influence of the COMT Val(158)Met polymorphism (rs4680) on sgACC resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in healthy individuals. A homogeneous group of 61 Caucasian right-handed healthy female university students, all within the same age range, underwent rsfMRI. Compared to Met(158) homozygotes, Val(158) allele carriers displayed significantly stronger rsFC between the sgACC and the left parahippocampal gyrus, ventromedial parts of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), and the nucleus accumbens (NAc). On the other hand, compared to Val(158) homozygotes, we found in Met(158) allele carriers stronger sgACC rsFC with the medial frontal gyrus (MFG), more in particular the anterior parts of the medial orbitofrontal cortex. Although we did not use emotional or cognitive tasks, our sgACC rsFC results point to possible distinct differences in emotional and cognitive processes between Val(158) and Met(158) allele carriers. However, the exact nature of these directions remains to be determined.
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- Chris Baeken
- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium ; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital (UZBrussel) Brussels, Belgium ; Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital (UZLeuven) Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Data Analysis, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium ; Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University Chongqing, China
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University Hospital (UZBrussel) Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University Hospital (UZBrussel) Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University Hospital (UZBrussel) Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium
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Sex differences in the response to emotional distraction: an event-related fMRI investigation. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2013; 13:116-34. [PMID: 23293019 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-012-0134-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Evidence has suggested that women have greater emotional reactivity than men. However, it is unclear whether these differences in basic emotional responses are also associated with differences in emotional distractibility, and what the neural mechanisms that implement differences in emotional distractibility between women and men are. Functional MRI recording was used in conjunction with a working memory (WM) task, with emotional distraction (angry faces) presented during the interval between the memoranda and the probes. First, we found an increased impact of emotional distraction among women in trials associated with high-confidence responses, in the context of overall similar WM performance in women and men. Second, women showed increased sensitivity to emotional distraction in brain areas associated with "hot" emotional processing, whereas men showed increased sensitivity in areas associated with "cold" executive processing, in the context of overall similar patterns of response to emotional distraction in women and men. Third, a sex-related dorsal-ventral hemispheric dissociation emerged in the lateral PFC related to coping with emotional distraction, with women showing a positive correlation with WM performance in left ventral PFC, and men showing similar effects in the right dorsal PFC. In addition to extending to men results that have previously been reported in women, by showing that both sexes engage mechanisms that are similar overall in response to emotional distraction, the present study identifies sex differences in both the response to and coping with emotional distraction. These results have implications for understanding sex differences in the susceptibility to affective disorders, in which basic emotional responses, emotional distractibility, and coping abilities are altered.
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Iordan AD, Dolcos S, Dolcos F. Neural signatures of the response to emotional distraction: a review of evidence from brain imaging investigations. Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:200. [PMID: 23761741 PMCID: PMC3672684 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2013] [Accepted: 04/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Prompt responses to emotional, potentially threatening, stimuli are supported by neural mechanisms that allow for privileged access of emotional information to processing resources. The existence of these mechanisms can also make emotional stimuli potent distracters, particularly when task-irrelevant. The ability to deploy cognitive control in order to cope with emotional distraction is essential for adaptive behavior, while reduced control may lead to enhanced emotional distractibility, which is often a hallmark of affective disorders. Evidence suggests that increased susceptibility to emotional distraction is linked to changes in the processing of emotional information that affect both the basic response to and coping with emotional distraction, but the neural correlates of these phenomena are not clear. The present review discusses emerging evidence from brain imaging studies addressing these issues, and highlights the following three aspects. First, the response to emotional distraction is associated with opposing patterns of activity in a ventral "hot" affective system (HotEmo, showing increased activity) and a dorsal "cold" executive system (ColdEx, showing decreased activity). Second, coping with emotional distraction involves top-down control in order to counteract the bottom-up influence of emotional distraction, and involves interactions between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex. Third, both the response to and coping with emotional distraction are influenced by individual differences affecting emotional sensitivity and distractibility, which are linked to alterations of both HotEmo and ColdEx neural systems. Collectively, the available evidence identifies specific neural signatures of the response to emotional challenge, which are fundamental to understanding the mechanisms of emotion-cognition interactions in healthy functioning, and the changes linked to individual variation in emotional distractibility and susceptibility to affective disorders.
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- A. D. Iordan
- Neuroscience Program, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, IL, USA
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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- Psychology Department, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, IL, USA
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, IL, USA
- Psychology Department, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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Takeuchi H, Taki Y, Nouchi R, Hashizume H, Sekiguchi A, Kotozaki Y, Nakagawa S, Miyauchi CM, Sassa Y, Kawashima R. Anatomical correlates of self-handicapping tendency. Cortex 2013; 49:1148-54. [PMID: 23465364 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2012] [Revised: 01/07/2013] [Accepted: 01/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Self-handicaps are obstacles created (or claimed) by individuals in anticipation of failure. Despite the vast amount of psychological research on self-handicapping tendency, the neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in self-handicapping tendency in young and healthy subjects are unknown. We used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and a questionnaire to measure individual self-handicapping tendency, and we investigated the association between regional gray matter volume (rGMV) and self-handicapping tendency across the brain in healthy young adult (mean age, 21.3 years; standard deviation - SD = 1.9) men (n = 94) and women (n = 91). We discovered that higher individual self-handicapping tendency was associated with larger rGMV in the subgenual cingulate gyrus (sgCG). A wide range of previous studies showed (a) the opposite pattern is seen in the association between rGMV in the sgCG and depression and (b) this area is active when negative emotions are suppressed. The present results suggest that the sgCG is also involved in self-handicapping, which is a behavior thought to be engaged in the protection of self-esteem.
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- Hikaru Takeuchi
- Smart Ageing International Research Center, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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Groenewold NA, Opmeer EM, de Jonge P, Aleman A, Costafreda SG. Emotional valence modulates brain functional abnormalities in depression: evidence from a meta-analysis of fMRI studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2012. [PMID: 23206667 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Models describing the neural correlates of biased emotion processing in depression have focused on increased activation of anterior cingulate and amygdala and decreased activation of striatum and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. However, neuroimaging studies investigating emotion processing in depression have reported inconsistent results. This meta-analysis integrates these findings and examines whether emotional valence modulates such abnormalities. A systematic literature search identified 26 whole-brain and 18 region-of-interest studies. Peak coordinates and effect sizes were combined in an innovative parametric meta-analysis. Opposing effects were observed in the amygdala, striatum, parahippocampal, cerebellar, fusiform and anterior cingulate cortex, with depressed subjects displaying hyperactivation for negative stimuli and hypoactivation for positive stimuli. Anterior cingulate activity was also modulated by facial versus non-facial stimuli, in addition to emotional valence. Depressed subjects also showed reduced activity in left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for negative stimuli and increased activity in orbitofrontal cortex for positive stimuli. Emotional valence is a moderator of neural abnormalities in depression, and therefore a critical feature to consider in models of emotional dysfunction in depression.
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- Nynke A Groenewold
- BCN Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Baeken C, De Raedt R, Van Schuerbeek P, De Mey J, Bossuyt A, Luypaert R. The influence of emotional priming on the neural substrates of memory: A prospective fMRI study using portrait art stimuli. Neuroimage 2012; 61:876-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2011] [Revised: 02/16/2012] [Accepted: 03/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Cusi AM, Nazarov A, Holshausen K, MacQueen GM, McKinnon MC. Systematic review of the neural basis of social cognition in patients with mood disorders. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2012; 37:154-69. [PMID: 22297065 PMCID: PMC3341408 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.100179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND This review integrates neuroimaging studies of 2 domains of social cognition--emotion comprehension and theory of mind (ToM)--in patients with major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. The influence of key clinical and method variables on patterns of neural activation during social cognitive processing is also examined. METHODS Studies were identified using PsycINFO and PubMed (January 1967 to May 2011). The search terms were "fMRI," "emotion comprehension," "emotion perception," "affect comprehension," "affect perception," "facial expression," "prosody," "theory of mind," "mentalizing" and "empathy" in combination with "major depressive disorder," "bipolar disorder," "major depression," "unipolar depression," "clinical depression" and "mania." RESULTS Taken together, neuroimaging studies of social cognition in patients with mood disorders reveal enhanced activation in limbic and emotion-related structures and attenuated activity within frontal regions associated with emotion regulation and higher cognitive functions. These results reveal an overall lack of inhibition by higher-order cognitive structures on limbic and emotion-related structures during social cognitive processing in patients with mood disorders. Critically, key variables, including illness burden, symptom severity, comorbidity, medication status and cognitive load may moderate this pattern of neural activation. LIMITATIONS Studies that did not include control tasks or a comparator group were included in this review. CONCLUSION Further work is needed to examine the contribution of key moderator variables and to further elucidate the neural networks underlying altered social cognition in patients with mood disorders. The neural networks under lying higher-order social cognitive processes, including empathy, remain unexplored in patients with mood disorders.
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- Correspondence to: M.C. McKinnon, Mood Disorders Program, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, 100 West 5th St., Box 585, Hamilton ON L8N 3K7;
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