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Glas VFJ, Koenders MA, Kupka RW, Regeer EJ. How to study psychological mechanisms of mania? A systematic review on the methodology of experimental studies on manic mood dysregulation of leading theories on bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord 2024. [PMID: 39043623 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.13463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/25/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Although there are several psychological theories on bipolar disorders (BD), the empirical evidence on these theories through experimental studies is still limited. The current study systematically reviews experimental methods used in studies on the main theories of BD: Reward Hypersensitivity Theory (RST) or Behavioral Activation System (BAS), Integrative Cognitive Model (ICM), Positive Emotion Persistence (PEP), Manic Defense theory (MD), and Mental Imagery (MI). The primary aim is to provide an overview of the used methods and to identify limitations and suggest areas of improvement. METHODS A systematic search of six databases until October 2023 was conducted. Study selection involved two independent reviewers extracting data on experimental study design and methodology. RESULTS A total of 84 experimental studies were reviewed. BAS and RST were the most frequently studied theories. The majority of these experimental studies focus on mechanisms of reward sensitivity. Other important elements of the reviewed theories, such as goal setting and-attainment, situation selection (avoidance or approach), activation, affective/emotional reactivity, and regulatory strategies, are understudied. Self-report and neuropsychological tasks are most often used, while mood induction and physiological measures are rarely used. CONCLUSION There is a need for more consensus on the operationalization of psychological theories of mania. Standardization of test batteries could improve comparability among studies and foster a more systematic approach to experimental research. Research on affective (activated) states is still underrepresented in comparison with studies on trait vulnerabilities.
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- V F J Glas
- Altrecht Institute for Mental Health Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Clinical Psychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Altrecht Institute for Mental Health Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Altrecht Institute for Mental Health Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Moningka H, Mason L. Misperceiving Momentum: Computational Mechanisms of Biased Striatal Reward Prediction Errors in Bipolar Disorder. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY GLOBAL OPEN SCIENCE 2024; 4:100330. [PMID: 39132577 PMCID: PMC11313182 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 04/10/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 08/13/2024] Open
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Background Dysregulated reward processing and mood instability are core features of bipolar disorder that have largely been considered separately, with contradictory findings. We sought to test a mechanistic account that emphasizes an excessive tendency in bipolar disorder to enter recursive cycles in which reward perception is biased by signals that the environment may be changing for the better or worse. Methods Participants completed a probabilistic reward task with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Using an influential computational model, we ascertained whether participants with bipolar disorder (n = 21) showed greater striatal tracking of momentum-biased reward prediction errors (RPEs) than matched control participants (n = 21). We conducted psychophysiological interaction analyses to quantify the degree to which each group modulated functional connectivity between the ventral striatum and left anterior insula in response to fluctuations in momentum. Results In participants with bipolar disorder, but not control participants, the momentum-biased RPE model accounted for significant additional variance in striatal activity beyond a standard model of veridical RPEs. Compared with control participants, participants with bipolar disorder exhibited lower insular-striatal functional connectivity modulated by momentum-biased RPEs, an effect that was more pronounced as a function of current manic symptoms. Conclusions Consistent with existing theory, we found evidence that bipolar disorder is associated with a tendency for momentum to excessively bias striatal tracking of RPEs. We identified impaired insular-striatal connectivity as a possible locus for this propensity. We argue that computational psychiatric approaches that examine momentary shifts in reward and mood dynamics have strong potential for yielding new mechanistic insights and intervention targets.
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- Hestia Moningka
- Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Isıklı S, Bektaş AB, Tamer Ş, Atabay M, Arkalı BD, Bağcı B, Bayrakcı A, Sebold M, Zorlu N. Effort-cost decision-making associated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Behav Brain Res 2024; 467:114996. [PMID: 38609021 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2024.114996] [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: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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Motivational deficits and reduced goal-directed behavior for external rewards have long been considered an important features of negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ). Negative symptoms have also a high prevalence in bipolar disorder (BP). We used a transdiagnostic approach in order to examine association between negative symptoms and effort allocation for monetary rewards. 41 patients with SCZ and 34 patients with BP were enrolled in the study along with 41 healthy controls (HC). Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT) was used to measure subjects' effort allocation for monetary rewards. Generalized estimating equation models were used to analyze EEfRT choice behavior. Negative symptoms were assessed using the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS). SCZ and BP groups expended lower effort to obtain a monetary rewards compared to HC. Severity of negative symptoms was negatively correlated with EEfRT performance in both diagnostic groups. Each diagnostic group showed lower effort allocation for monetary rewards compared to HC suggesting reduced motivation for monetary rewards. In addition, our results suggest that abnormal effort-based decision-making might be a transdiagnostic factor underlying negative symptoms.
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- Serhan Isıklı
- Department of Psychiatry, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Business and Law, Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences, Aschaffenburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
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Teh WL, Si SY, Liu J, Subramaniam M, Ho R. The clinical significance of emotional urgency in bipolar disorder: a scoping review. BMC Psychol 2024; 12:273. [PMID: 38750587 PMCID: PMC11097479 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-024-01700-1] [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: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Emotional urgency, defined as a trait concept of emotion-based impulsivity, is at least moderately associated with general psychopathology. However, its clinical significance and associations with clinically relevant features of bipolar disorder remain unclear. This scoping review aims address this gap by determining the extent of evidence in this niche scope of study. METHODS Evidence of between-group differences of positive and negative urgency, its associations with mood severity, and all peripheral associations related to illness and psychosocial outcomes were synthesized based on PRISMA checklists and guidelines for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR). DESIGN Electronic databases were searched for articles published between January 2001 and January 2024. A total of 1013 entries were gathered, and a total of 10 articles were included in the final selection after the removal of duplicates and ineligible articles. RESULTS Differences in urgency scores between bipolar disorder and healthy controls were large (Cohen's d ranged from 1.77 to 2.20). Negative urgency was at least moderately associated with overall trauma, emotional abuse, neglect, suicide ideation, neuroticism, and irritable/cyclothymic temperament, whereas positive urgency was at least moderately associated with various aspects of aggression and quality of life. Positive but not negative urgency was associated with quality of life in bipolar disorder. CONCLUSION Large between-group differences found for emotional urgency in bipolar disorder imply large clinical significance. Emotional urgency was associated with worse clinical features and outcomes. Given the high clinical heterogeneity of the disorder, emotional urgency may be an important phenotype indicative of greater disorder severity.
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- Wen Lin Teh
- Institute of Mental Health, 10 Buangkok View, Buangkok Green, Medical Park, Singapore, S539747, Singapore.
- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore, S119077, Singapore.
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- MOH Holdings, 1 Maritime Square, #11-25, Singapore, S099253, Singapore
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- Institute of Mental Health, 10 Buangkok View, Buangkok Green, Medical Park, Singapore, S539747, Singapore
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- Institute of Mental Health, 10 Buangkok View, Buangkok Green, Medical Park, Singapore, S539747, Singapore
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- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore, S119077, Singapore
- Institute of Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, 14 Medical Dr, #14-01 MD6, Singapore, S117599, Singapore
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Demro C, Lahud E, Burton PC, Purcell JR, Simon JJ, Sponheim SR. Reward anticipation-related neural activation following cued reinforcement in adults with psychotic psychopathology and biological relatives. Psychol Med 2024; 54:1441-1451. [PMID: 38197294 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291723003343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is associated with hypoactivation of reward sensitive brain areas during reward anticipation. However, it is unclear whether these neural functions are similarly impaired in other disorders with psychotic symptomatology or individuals with genetic liability for psychosis. If abnormalities in reward sensitive brain areas are shared across individuals with psychotic psychopathology and people with heightened genetic liability for psychosis, there may be a common neural basis for symptoms of diminished pleasure and motivation. METHODS We compared performance and neural activity in 123 people with a history of psychosis (PwP), 81 of their first-degree biological relatives, and 49 controls during a modified Monetary Incentive Delay task during fMRI. RESULTS PwP exhibited hypoactivation of the striatum and anterior insula (AI) during cueing of potential future rewards with each diagnostic group showing hypoactivations during reward anticipation compared to controls. Despite normative task performance, relatives demonstrated caudate activation intermediate between controls and PwP, nucleus accumbens activation more similar to PwP than controls, but putamen activation on par with controls. Across diagnostic groups of PwP there was less functional connectivity between bilateral caudate and several regions of the salience network (medial frontal gyrus, anterior cingulate, AI) during reward anticipation. CONCLUSIONS Findings implicate less activation and connectivity in reward processing brain regions across a spectrum of disorders involving psychotic psychopathology. Specifically, aberrations in striatal and insular activity during reward anticipation seen in schizophrenia are partially shared with other forms of psychotic psychopathology and associated with genetic liability for psychosis.
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- Caroline Demro
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Bertocci MA, Rozovsky R, Wolfe M, Abdul-Waalee H, Chobany M, Malgireddy G, Hart JA, Skeba A, Brady T, Lepore B, Versace A, Chase HW, Birmaher B, Phillips ML, Diler RS. Neural markers of mania that distinguish inpatient adolescents with bipolar disorder from those with other psychopathology. Psychiatry Res 2024; 333:115747. [PMID: 38301286 PMCID: PMC10922873 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115747] [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: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
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Pediatric bipolar disorder (BD) is difficult to distinguish from other psychiatric disorders, a challenge which can result in delayed or incorrect interventions. Using neuroimaging we aimed to identify neural measures differentiating a rarified sample of inpatient adolescents with BD from other inpatient psychopathology (OP) and healthy adolescents (HC) during a reward task. We hypothesized reduced subcortical and elevated cortical activation in BD relative to other groups, and that these markers will be related to self-reported mania scores. We examined inpatient adolescents with diagnosis of BD-I/II (n = 29), OP (n = 43), and HC (n = 20) from the Inpatient Child and Adolescent Bipolar Spectrum Imaging study. Inpatient adolescents with BD showed reduced activity in right thalamus, left thalamus, and left amygdala, relative to inpatient adolescents with OP and HC. This reduced neural function explained 21% of the variance in past month and 23% of the variance in lifetime mania scores. Lower activity in regions associated with the reward network, during reward processing, differentiates BD from OP in inpatient adolescents and explains >20% of the variance in mania scores. These findings highlight potential targets to aid earlier identification of, and guide new treatment developments for, pediatric BD.
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- Michele A Bertocci
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 121 Meyran Avenue, 120 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 121 Meyran Avenue, 120 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 121 Meyran Avenue, 120 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 121 Meyran Avenue, 120 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 121 Meyran Avenue, 120 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 121 Meyran Avenue, 120 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 121 Meyran Avenue, 120 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Blevins E, Ko M, Park B, Qu Y, Knutson B, Tsai JL. Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2023; 18:nsad068. [PMID: 37952225 PMCID: PMC10703126 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsad068] [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: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
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European Americans view high-intensity, open-mouthed 'excited' smiles more positively than Chinese because they value excitement and other high arousal positive states more. This difference is supported by reward-related neural activity, with European Americans showing greater Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc) activity to excited (vs calm) smiles than Chinese. But do these cultural differences generalize to all rewards, and are they related to real-world social behavior? European American (N = 26) and Chinese (N = 27) participants completed social and monetary incentive delay tasks that distinguished between the anticipation and receipt (outcome) of social and monetary rewards while undergoing Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI). The groups did not differ in NAcc activity when anticipating social or monetary rewards. However, as predicted, European Americans showed greater NAcc activity than Chinese when viewing excited smiles during outcome (the receipt of social reward). No cultural differences emerged when participants received monetary outcomes. Individuals who showed increased NAcc activity to excited smiles during outcome had friends with more intense smiles on social media. These findings suggest that culture plays a specific role in modulating reward-related neural responses to excited smiles during outcome, which are associated with real-world relationships.
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- Elizabeth Blevins
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- UC San Diego School of Medicine, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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- School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Kirsch DE, Kosted R, Le V, Almeida JRC, Fromme K, Strakowski SM, Lippard ETC. Ventral prefrontal network response to alcohol in young adults with bipolar disorder: a within-subject randomized placebo-controlled alcohol administration study. Neuropsychopharmacology 2023; 48:1910-1919. [PMID: 37474761 PMCID: PMC10584851 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-023-01657-6] [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: 03/16/2023] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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Bipolar disorder co-occurs with alcohol use disorder at a rate 3-5 times higher than the general population. We recently reported that individuals with bipolar disorder differ in the positive stimulating and anxiolytic effects of alcohol compared with healthy peers. This study used a randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over, within-subject alcohol administration design to investigate neurobiological mechanisms within ventral prefrontal cortical (vPFC) systems that may underlie altered sensitivity to alcohol in bipolar disorder (NCT04063384). Forty-seven young adults (n = 23 with bipolar disorder, 64% women) completed clinical assessment and two beverage administration sessions (alcohol and placebo, counter-balanced). Participants were dosed to 0.08 g% breath alcohol concentration during the alcohol condition and completed measures of subjective response to alcohol and an emotional processing fMRI task during the ascending limb. Timing during the placebo condition mirrored the alcohol session. Acute alcohol was associated with reduced functional connectivity between the insula - subcallosal cingulate cortex, and increased connectivity between the left nucleus accumbens - ventromedial PFC in bipolar disorder, but with no change in functional connectivity between these regions in healthy peers. Alcohol-related increases in nucleus accumbens - ventromedial PFC functional connectivity was associated with greater positive stimulating effects of alcohol in bipolar disorder and heavier recent alcohol use. Results suggest vPFC brain systems respond differently to acute alcohol during emotional processing in young adults with bipolar disorder compared with healthy peers, and that vPFC system responses relate to the subjective experience of intoxication and recent alcohol use.
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- Dylan E Kirsch
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Institute of Early Life Adversity Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
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Mellick WH, Tolliver BK, Brenner HM, Anton RF, Prisciandaro JJ. Alcohol Cue Processing in Co-Occurring Bipolar Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder. JAMA Psychiatry 2023; 80:1150-1159. [PMID: 37556131 PMCID: PMC10413222 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.2726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
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Importance Reward circuitry dysfunction is a candidate mechanism of co-occurring bipolar disorder and alcohol use disorder (BD + AUD) that remains understudied. This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research represents the first evaluation of alcohol cue reward processing in BD + AUD. Objective To determine how alcohol cue processing in individuals with BD + AUD may be distinct from that of individuals with AUD or BD alone. Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional case-control study (April 2013-June 2018) followed a 2 × 2 factorial design and included individuals with BD + AUD, AUD alone, BD alone, and healthy controls. A well-validated visual alcohol cue reactivity fMRI paradigm was administered to eligible participants following their demonstration of 1 week or more of abstinence from alcohol and drugs assessed via serial biomarker testing. Study procedures were completed at the Medical University of South Carolina. Analysis took place between June and August 2022. Main Outcomes and Measures Past-week mood symptoms were rated by clinicians using the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale and Young Mania Rating Scale. The Alcohol Dependence Scale, Obsessive-Compulsive Drinking Scale, and Barratt Impulsiveness Scale were included questionnaires. Functional MRI whole-brain data were analyzed along with percent signal change within a priori regions of interest located in the ventral striatum, dorsal striatum, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Exploratory analyses of associations between cue reactivity and select behavioral correlates (alcohol craving, impulsivity, maximum number of alcohol drinks on a single occasion, and days since last alcohol drink) were also performed. Results Of 112 participants, 28 (25.0%) had BD + AUD, 26 (23.2%) had AUD alone, 31 (27.7%) had BD alone, and 27 (24.1%) were healthy controls. The mean (SD) age was 38.7 (11.6) years, 50 (45.5%) were female, 33 (30%) were smokers, and 37 (34.9%) reported recent alcohol consumption. Whole-brain analyses revealed a BD × AUD interaction (F = 10.64; P = .001; η2 = 0.09) within a cluster spanning portions of the right inferior frontal gyrus and insula. Region of interest analyses revealed a main association of BD (F = 8.02; P = .006; η2 = 0.07) within the dorsal striatum. In each instance, individuals with BD + AUD exhibited reduced activation compared with all other groups who did not significantly differ from one another. These hypoactivations were associated with increased impulsivity and obsessive-compulsive alcohol craving exclusively among individuals with BD + AUD. Conclusion and Relevance The findings of this study suggest conceptualizing reward dysfunction in BD + AUD by the potential interaction between blunted reward responsivity and deficient inhibitory control may help guide treatment development strategies. To this end, reduced right inferior frontal gyrus and insula alcohol cue reactivity represents a novel candidate biomarker of BD + AUD that may respond to pharmacological interventions targeting impulsivity-related neural mechanisms for improved executive control.
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- Addiction Sciences Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
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- Addiction Sciences Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
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- Addiction Sciences Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
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- Addiction Sciences Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
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de Jesus JR, de Araujo Andrade T, de Figueiredo EC. Biomarkers in psychiatric disorders. Adv Clin Chem 2023; 116:183-208. [PMID: 37852719 DOI: 10.1016/bs.acc.2023.05.005] [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] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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Psychiatric disorders represent a significant socioeconomic and healthcare burden worldwide. Of these, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and anxiety are among the most prevalent. Unfortunately, diagnosis remains problematic and largely complicated by the lack of disease specific biomarkers. Accordingly, much research has focused on elucidating these conditions to more fully understand underlying pathophysiology and potentially identify biomarkers, especially those of early stage disease. In this chapter, we review current status of this endeavor as well as the potential development of novel biomarkers for clinical applications and future research study.
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of Alfenas, Rua Gabriel Monteiro da Silva, Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Alloy LB, Walsh RFL, Smith LT, Maddox MA, Olino TM, Zee PC, Nusslock R. Circadian, Reward, and Emotion Systems in Teens prospective longitudinal study: protocol overview of an integrative reward-circadian rhythm model of first onset of bipolar spectrum disorder in adolescence. BMC Psychiatry 2023; 23:602. [PMID: 37592214 PMCID: PMC10436678 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-023-05094-z] [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: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/08/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Bipolar spectrum disorders (BSDs) are associated with a heightened sensitivity to rewards and elevated reward-related brain function in cortico-striatal circuitry. A separate literature documents social and circadian rhythm disruption in BSDs. Recently, integrated reward-circadian models of BSDs have been proposed. These models draw on work indicating that the two systems influence each other and interact to affect mood functioning. When dysregulated, reward and circadian system signaling may combine to form a positive feedback loop, whereby dysregulation in one system exacerbates dysregulation in the other. Project CREST (Circadian, Reward, and Emotion Systems in Teens) provides a first systematic test of reward-circadian dysregulation as a synergistic and dynamic vulnerability for first onset of BSD and increases in bipolar symptoms during adolescence. METHODS This NIMH-funded R01 study is a 3-year prospective, longitudinal investigation of approximately 320 community adolescents from the broader Philadelphia area, United States of America. Eligible participants must be 13-16 years old, fluent in English, and without a prior BSD or hypomanic episode. They are being selected along the entire dimension of self-reported reward responsiveness, with oversampling at the high tail of the dimension in order to increase the likelihood of BSD onsets. At Times 1-6, every 6 months, participants will complete assessments of reward-relevant and social rhythm disruption life events and self-report and diagnostic assessments of bipolar symptoms and episodes. Yearly, at Times 1, 3, and 5, participants also will complete self-report measures of circadian chronotype (morningness-eveningness) and social rhythm regularity, a salivary dim light melatonin onset (DLMO) procedure to assess circadian phase, self-report, behavioral, and neural (fMRI) assessments of monetary and social reward responsiveness, and a 7-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) period. During each EMA period, participants will complete continuous measures of sleep/wake and activity (actigraphy), a daily sleep diary, and three within-day (morning, afternoon, evening) measures of life events coded for reward-relevance and social rhythm disruption, monetary and social reward responsiveness, positive and negative affect, and hypo/manic and depressive symptoms. The fMRI scan will occur on the day before and the DLMO procedure will occur on the first evening of the 7-day EMA period. DISCUSSION This study is an innovative integration of research on multi-organ systems involved in reward and circadian signaling in understanding first onset of BSD in adolescence. It has the potential to facilitate novel pharmacological, neural, and behavioral interventions to treat, and ideally prevent, bipolar conditions.
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- Lauren B Alloy
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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Left ventrolateral prefrontal cortical activity during reward expectancy predicts mania risk up to one year post scan. J Affect Disord 2022; 319:325-328. [PMID: 36087789 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.08.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2021] [Revised: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Identification of neural markers associated with risk for manic symptoms is an important challenge for neuropsychiatric research. Previous work has highlighted the association between predisposition for mania/hypomania and elevated reward sensitivity. Elevated activity in the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (L vlPFC) during reward expectancy (RE) is associated with measures predictive of risk for manic/hypomanic symptoms. However, no studies have examined this relationship longitudinally. The goal of this study was to identify a neural marker associated with longitudinal risk for manic/hypomanic symptoms. METHODS We used a card guessing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm to examine RE-related L vlPFC activity. One hundred and three young adults who were either healthy or experiencing psychological distress completed a single baseline fMRI scan and self-report measures of manic/hypomanic symptoms. Self-report measures were repeated up to two follow up visits over one year. RESULTS We identified a significant positive relationship between baseline RE-related L vlPFC activity and MOODS Manic Domain scores up to one-year post scan. This relationship was specific to manic symptoms and was not present for MOODS depression-related domains. LIMITATIONS This study was not designed to predict conversion to bipolar disorder, but rather the more proximal construct of lifetime risk for mania/hypomania. CONCLUSIONS RE-related L vlPFC activity may serve as an important marker of risk for future manic/hypomanic symptoms and may also be a potential target for intervention.
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Carroll AL, Damme KS, Alloy LB, Bart CP, Ng TH, Titone MK, Chein J, Cichocki AC, Armstrong CC, Nusslock R. Risk for bipolar spectrum disorders associated with positive urgency and orbitofrontal cortical grey matter volume. Neuroimage Clin 2022; 36:103225. [PMID: 36242853 PMCID: PMC9668630 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
Bipolar spectrum disorders (BSDs) are associated with reward hypersensitivity, impulsivity, and structural abnormalities within the brain's reward system. Using a behavioral high-risk study design based on reward sensitivity, this paper had two primary objectives: 1) investigate whether elevated positive urgency, the tendency to act rashly when experiencing extreme positive affect, is a risk for or correlate of BSDs, and 2) examine the nature of the relationship between positive urgency and grey matter volume in fronto-striatal reward regions, among individuals at differential risk for BSD. Young adults (ages 18-28) screened to be moderately reward sensitive (MReward; N = 42), highly reward sensitive (HReward; N = 48), or highly reward sensitive with a lifetime BSD (HReward + BSD; N = 32) completed a structural MRI scan and the positive urgency subscale of the UPPS-P scale. Positive urgency scores varied with BSD risk (MReward < HReward < HReward + BSD; ps≤0.05), and positive urgency interacted with BSD risk group in predicting lateral OFC volume (p <.001). Specifically, the MReward group showed a negative relationship between positive urgency and lateral OFC volume. By contrast, there was no relationship between positive urgency and lateral OFC grey matter volume among the HReward and HReward + BSD groups. The results suggest that heightened trait positive urgency is a pre-existing vulnerability for BSD that worsens with illness onset, and there is a distinct relationship between positive urgency and lateral OFC volume among individuals at high versus low risk for BSD. These findings have implications for understanding the expression and development of impulsivity in BSDs.
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- Ann L. Carroll
- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, United States,Corresponding author at: Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, Swift Hall, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, United States,Institute for Innovation in Developmental Sciences, Chicago IL, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, United States,Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, United States
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Kaliuzhna M, Kirschner M, Tobler PN, Kaiser S. Comparing adaptive coding of reward in bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 44:523-534. [PMID: 36111883 PMCID: PMC9842918 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Deficits in neural processing of reward have been described in both bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ), but it remains unclear to what extent these deficits are caused by similar mechanisms. Efficient reward processing relies on adaptive coding which allows representing large input spans by limited neuronal encoding ranges. Deficits in adaptive coding of reward have previously been observed across the SZ spectrum and correlated with total symptom severity. In the present work, we sought to establish whether adaptive coding is similarly affected in patients with BD. Twenty-five patients with BD, 27 patients with SZ and 25 healthy controls performed a variant of the Monetary Incentive Delay task during functional magnetic resonance imaging in two reward range conditions. Adaptive coding was impaired in the posterior part of the right caudate in BD and SZ (trend level). In contrast, BD did not show impaired adaptive coding in the anterior caudate and right precentral gyrus/insula, where SZ showed deficits compared to healthy controls. BD patients show adaptive coding deficits that are similar to those observed in SZ in the right posterior caudate. Adaptive coding in BD appeared more preserved as compared to SZ participants especially in the more anterior part of the right caudate and to a lesser extent also in the right precentral gyrus. Thus, dysfunctional adaptive coding could constitute a fundamental deficit in severe mental illnesses that extends beyond the SZ spectrum.
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- Mariia Kaliuzhna
- Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology Group, Department of PsychiatryUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
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- Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of EconomicsUniversity of ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology Group, Department of PsychiatryUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland,Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsPsychiatric Hospital, University of ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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Chat IKY, Dunning EE, Bart CP, Carroll AL, Grehl MM, Damme KS, Abramson LY, Nusslock R, Alloy LB. The Interplay between Reward-Relevant Life Events and Trait Reward Sensitivity in Neural Responses to Reward Cues. Clin Psychol Sci 2022; 10:869-884. [PMID: 36381350 PMCID: PMC9662616 DOI: 10.1177/21677026211056627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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The reward hypersensitivity model posits that trait reward hypersensitivity should elicit hyper/hypo approach motivation following exposure to recent life events that activate (goal-striving and goal-attainment) or deactivate (goal-failure) the reward system, respectively. To test these hypotheses, eighty-seven young adults with high (HRew) versus moderate (MRew) trait reward sensitivity reported frequency of life events via the Life Event Interview. Brain activation was assessed during the fMRI Monetary Incentive Delay task. Greater exposure to goal-striving events was associated with higher nucleus accumbens (NAc) reward anticipation among HRew participants and lower orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) reward anticipation among MRew participants. Greater exposure to goal-failure events was associated with higher NAc and OFC reward anticipation only among HRew participants. This study demonstrated different neural reward anticipation (but not outcome) following reward-relevant events for HRew versus MRew individuals. Trait reward sensitivity and reward-relevant life events may jointly modulate reward-related brain function, with implications for understanding psychopathology.
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- Iris Ka-Yi Chat
- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Wakatsuki Y, Ogura Y, Hashimoto N, Toyomaki A, Miyamoto T, Nakagawa S, Inoue T, Kusumi I. Subjects with bipolar disorder showed different reward system activation than subjects with major depressive disorder in the monetary incentive delay task. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2022; 76:393-400. [PMID: 35608194 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Revised: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Differentiating between bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) during the depressive episode is an important clinical challenge. Reward system abnormalities have received much attention as one of the biological underpinnings of BD and MDD, but few studies have directly compared these abnormalities in remitted and depressed states. METHODS This was a functional MRI study using the Monetary Incentive Delay task in 65 patients (BD [n = 33], MDD [n = 32]) and 33 healthy controls (HC). Regions of interest (ROI) analysis with 21 ROIs related to reward anticipation and 17 ROIs related to gain outcome were implemented, as well as whole-brain analysis. The difference in the dimensional effect of depression on brain activation was also examined. RESULTS Relative to the HC group, BD patients showed significantly decreased activation during reward anticipation in the anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula (AI), and putamen, and MDD patients showed significantly decreased activation in the AI and brainstem. The dimensional effect of depression severity showed a trend-level difference between BD and MDD in the right brainstem and left AI. CONCLUSIONS The current study showed a possible differential effect of depression on the reward system between MDD and BD. Further studies on reward systems might offer reliable markers to distinguish between MDD and BD patients in the depressive phase.
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- Yumi Wakatsuki
- Department of Psychiatry, The Hokkaido medical center, Sapporo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Chat IKY, Gepty AA, Kautz M, Giollabhui NM, Adogli ZV, Coe CL, Abramson LY, Olino TM, Alloy LB. Residence in High-Crime Neighborhoods Moderates the Association Between Interleukin 6 and Social and Nonsocial Reward Brain Responses. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY GLOBAL OPEN SCIENCE 2022; 2:273-282. [PMID: 35873737 PMCID: PMC9306340 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Residence in high-crime neighborhoods, especially in childhood, is linked to mental health issues later. Detecting distinct neurobiological processes underlying the effects of this environmental stressor may be critical to identifying prevention and intervention targets. This study examined the relationships of levels of a circulating inflammatory protein with social and monetary reward-related brain function among adolescents who lived in high- versus low-crime neighborhoods during childhood. METHODS A total of 70 participants (mean age = 16.3 years; 57% female) completed measures of inflammatory markers, depression history, and health and 2 functional magnetic resonance imaging tasks assessing responsivity to monetary and social rewards. Multivariate linear regression tested whether individuals with higher interleukin 6, an inflammatory cytokine, who also lived in neighborhoods with higher crime had distinct orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens activation to monetary reward and social acceptance. RESULTS For adolescents who lived in neighborhoods with more crime, higher interleukin 6 was associated with higher nucleus accumbens responses to social acceptance. We did not detect significant moderating effects of neighborhood crime rates on the associations of interleukin 6 with orbitofrontal cortex responses to social acceptance or orbitofrontal cortex/nucleus accumbens activation during monetary reward anticipation or outcome. These results were obtained before and after adjusting for neighborhood income and other covariates. We did not detect significant moderating effects of neighborhood income. CONCLUSIONS High-threat residence environment and specific demands of the social context in childhood may have shaped the effect of peripheral immune activation on reward-related neural function in adolescence. The prevailing view that inflammation-associated behaviors are characterized by blunted responsiveness to reward may be oversimplistic.
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- Iris Ka-Yi Chat
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Psychological and Brain Sciences Department, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Depression Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Nimarko AF, Gorelik AJ, Carta KE, Gorelik MG, Singh MK. Neural correlates of reward processing distinguish healthy youth at familial risk for bipolar disorder from youth at familial risk for major depressive disorder. Transl Psychiatry 2022; 12:31. [PMID: 35075136 PMCID: PMC8786954 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-022-01800-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Youth at familial risk for bipolar disorder (BD-risk) and major depressive disorder (MDD-risk) have aberrant reward processing, a core feature of these mood disorders. Whether BD risk differentiates from MDD risk in reward processing merits further study. We compared neural activation and connectivity during anticipation and outcome of monetary gain and loss during fMRI using the Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) Task among BD-risk (n = 40), MDD-risk (n = 41), and healthy comparison youth (HC) (n = 45), in the absence of any lifetime or current history of psychopathology [mean age 13.09 ± 2.58, 56.3% female]. Participants completed the MID task at baseline and were followed for behavioral and clinical outcomes over 4.37 ± 2.29 years. Region-of-interest (ROI) analyses conducted using anatomically defined thalamus, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and putamen seeds showed that relative to MDD-risk and HC, BD-risk had decreased activation of the thalamus during anticipation of monetary gain [F(2,118) = 4.64, p = 0.01 (FDR-corrected p = 0.04)]. Psychophysiological interaction analyses revealed that BD-risk had less connectivity between the thalamus and left middle frontal gyrus (Z > 3.1, p < 0.001) and left-superior temporal gyrus (Z > 3.1, p < 0.05) compared with MDD-risk. Voxelwise, BD-risk had decreased activation in the cerebellum during anticipation and outcome of monetary gain relative to MDD-risk and HC (Z > 3.1, p < 0.001; Z > 3.1, p < 0.01). In BD-risk, decreased thalamic connectivity was associated with increased impulsivity at baseline and reduced prosocial behavior at follow-up. Reduced thalamic activation and connectivity during reward processing may distinguish familial risk for BD from familial risk for MDD and represent early markers of vulnerability that may herald social dysfunction later in adolescence.
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- Akua F. Nimarko
- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA United States
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA United States
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA United States
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- grid.15276.370000 0004 1936 8091University of Florida, Gainesville, FL United States
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA United States
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Ventral Striatal-Hippocampus Coupling During Reward Processing as a Stratification Biomarker for Psychotic Disorders. Biol Psychiatry 2022; 91:216-225. [PMID: 34607654 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Revised: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Altered ventral striatal (vST) activation to reward expectancy is a well-established intermediate phenotype for psychiatric disorders, specifically schizophrenia (SZ). Preclinical research suggests that striatal alterations are related to a reduced inhibition by the hippocampal formation, but its role in human transdiagnostic reward-network dysfunctions is not well understood. METHODS We performed functional magnetic resonance imaging during reward processing in 728 individuals including healthy control subjects (n = 396), patients (SZ: n = 46; bipolar disorder: n = 45; major depressive disorder: n = 60), and unaffected first-degree relatives (SZ: n = 46; bipolar disorder: n = 50; major depressive disorder: n = 85). We assessed disorder-specific differences in functional vST-hippocampus coupling and transdiagnostic associations with dimensional measures of positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. We also probed the genetic underpinning using polygenic risk scores for SZ in a subset of healthy participants (n = 295). RESULTS Functional vST-hippocampus coupling was 1) reduced in patients with SZ and bipolar disorder (pFWE < .05, small-volume corrected [SVC]); 2) associated transdiagnostically to dimensional measures of positive (pFWE = .01, SVC) and cognitive (pFWE = .02, SVC), but not negative, (pFWE > .05, SVC) symptoms; and 3) reduced in first-degree relatives of patients with SZ (pFWE = .017, SVC) and linked to the genetic risk for SZ in healthy participants (p = .035). CONCLUSIONS We provide evidence that reduced vST-hippocampus coupling during reward processing is an endophenotype for SZ linked to positive and cognitive symptoms, supporting current preclinical models of the emergence of psychosis. Moreover, our data indicate that vST-hippocampus coupling is familial and linked to polygenic scores for SZ, supporting the use of this measure as an intermediate phenotype for psychotic disorders.
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Srirangarajan T, Mortazavi L, Bortolini T, Moll J, Knutson B. Multi-band FMRI compromises detection of mesolimbic reward responses. Neuroimage 2021; 244:118617. [PMID: 34600102 PMCID: PMC8626533 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 09/20/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Recent innovations in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) have sped data collection by enabling simultaneous scans of neural activity in multiple brain locations, but have these innovations come at a cost? In a meta-analysis and preregistered direct comparison of original data, we examined whether acquiring FMRI data with multi-band versus single-band scanning protocols might compromise detection of mesolimbic activity during reward processing. Meta-analytic results (n = 44 studies; cumulative n = 5005 subjects) indicated that relative to single-band scans, multi-band scans showed significantly decreased effect sizes for reward anticipation in the Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc) by more than half. Direct within-subject comparison of single-band versus multi-band scanning data (multi-band factors = 4 and 8; n = 12 subjects) acquired during repeated administration of the Monetary Incentive Delay task indicated that reductions in temporal signal-to-noise ratio could account for compromised detection of task-related responses in mesolimbic regions (i.e., the NAcc). Together, these findings imply that researchers should opt for single-band over multi-band scanning protocols when probing mesolimbic responses with FMRI. The findings also have implications for inferring mesolimbic activity during related tasks and rest, for summarizing historical results, and for using neuroimaging data to track individual differences in reward-related brain activity.
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- Tara Srirangarajan
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
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Zhang L, Wu H, Zhang A, Bai T, Ji GJ, Tian Y, Wang K. Aberrant brain network topology in the frontoparietal-limbic circuit in bipolar disorder: a graph-theory study. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2021; 271:1379-1391. [PMID: 33386961 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-020-01219-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Characterizing the properties of brain networks across mood states seen in bipolar disorder (BP) can provide a deeper insight into the mechanisms involved in this type of affective disorder. In this study, graph theoretical methods were used to examine global, modular and nodal brain network topology in the resting state using functional magnetic resonance imaging data acquired from 95 participants, including those with bipolar depression (BPD; n = 30) and bipolar mania (BPM; n = 39) and healthy control (HC) subjects (n = 26). The threshold value of the individual subjects' connectivity matrix varied from 0.15 to 0.30 with steps of 0.01. We found that: (1) at the global level, BP patients showed a significantly increased global efficiency and synchronization and a decreased path length; (2) at the nodal level, BP patients showed impaired nodal parameters, predominantly within the frontoparietal and limbic sub-network; (3) at the module level, BP patients were characterized by denser FCs (edges) between Module III (the front-parietal system) and Module V (limbic/paralimbic systems); (4) at the nodal level, the BPD and BPM groups showed state-specific differences in the orbital part of the left superior-frontal gyrus, right putamen, right parahippocampal gyrus and left fusiform gyrus. These results revealed abnormalities in topological organization in the whole brain, especially in the frontoparietal-limbic circuit in both BPD and BPM. These deficits may reflect the pathophysiological processes occurring in BP. In addition, state-specific regional nodal alterations in BP could potentially provide biomarkers of conversion across different mood states.
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- Li Zhang
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, 230022, China
- Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, 218 Jixi Road, Hefei, 230022, Anhui Province, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, 230022, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, 230022, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, 230022, China
- Department of Medical Psychology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, 218 Jixi Road, Hefei, 230022, Anhui Province, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, 230022, China
- Department of Medical Psychology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, 218 Jixi Road, Hefei, 230022, Anhui Province, China.
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, 230022, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, 230022, China.
- Department of Medical Psychology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.
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Bart CP, Titone MK, Ng TH, Nusslock R, Alloy LB. Neural reward circuit dysfunction as a risk factor for bipolar spectrum disorders and substance use disorders: A review and integration. Clin Psychol Rev 2021; 87:102035. [PMID: 34020138 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 03/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
Bipolar spectrum disorders (BSDs) and substance use disorders (SUDs) are associated with neural reward dysfunction. However, it is unclear what pattern of neural reward function underlies pre-existing vulnerability to BSDs and SUDs, or whether neural reward function explains their high co-occurrence. The current paper provides an overview of the separate literatures on neural reward sensitivity in BSDs and SUDs. We provide a systematic review of 35 studies relevant to identifying neural reward function vulnerability to BSDs and SUDs. These studies include those examining neural reward processing on a monetary reward task with prospective designs predicting initial onset of SUDs, familial risk studies that examine unaffected offspring or first-degree relatives of family members with BSDs or SUDs, and studies that examine individuals with BSDs or SUDs who are not currently in an episode of the disorder. Findings from the review highlight that aberrant responding and connectivity across neural regions associated with reward and cognitive control confers risk for the development of BSDs and SUDs. Discussion focuses on limitations of the extant literature. We conclude with an integration and theoretical model for understanding how aberrant neural reward responding may constitute a vulnerability to the development of both BSDs and SUDs.
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- Corinne P Bart
- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America.
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Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are associated with opposite brain reward anticipation-associated response. Neuropsychopharmacology 2021; 46:1152-1160. [PMID: 33452432 PMCID: PMC8115687 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-020-00940-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Blunted and exaggerated neuronal response to rewards are hypothesized to be core features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), respectively. Nonetheless, direct tests of this hypothesis, in which response between SZ and BD is compared in the same study, are lacking. Here we examined the functional correlates of reward processing during the Incentivized Control Engagement Task (ICE-T) using 3T fMRI. Reward-associated activation was examined in 49 healthy controls (HCs), 52 recent-onset individuals with SZ, and 22 recent-onset individuals with Type I BD using anterior cingulate (ACC), anterior insula, and ventral striatal regions of interest. Significant group X reward condition (neutral vs. reward) interactions were observed during reward anticipation in the dorsal ACC (F(2,120) = 4.21, P = 0.017) and right insula (F(2,120) = 4.77, P = 0.010). The ACC interaction was driven by relatively higher activation in the BD group vs. HCs (P = 0.007) and vs. individuals with SZ (P = 0.010). The insula interaction was driven by reduced activation in the SZ group relative to HCs (P = 0.018) and vs. people with BD (P = 0.008). A composite of reward anticipation-associated response across all associated ROIs also differed significantly by diagnosis (F(1,120) = 5.59, P = 0.02), BD > HC > SZ. No effects of group or group X reward interactions were observed during reward feedback. These results suggest that people with SZ and BD have opposite patterns of activation associated with reward anticipation but not reward receipt. Implications of these findings in regard to Research Domain Criteria-based classification of illness and the neurobiology of reward in psychosis are discussed.
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Elman I, Upadhyay J, Lowen S, Karunakaran K, Albanese M, Borsook D. Mechanisms Underlying Unconscious Processing and Their Alterations in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Neuroimaging of Zero Monetary Outcomes Contextually Framed as "No Losses" vs. "No Gains". Front Neurosci 2020; 14:604867. [PMID: 33390889 PMCID: PMC7772193 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.604867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Although unconscious processing is a key element of mental operation, its neural correlates have not been established. Also, clinical observations suggest that unconscious processing may be involved in the pathophysiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but the neurobiological mechanisms underlying such impairments remain unknown. The purpose of the present study was to examine putative mechanisms underlying unconscious processing by healthy participants and to determine whether these mechanisms may be altered in PTSD patients. Twenty patients with PTSD and 27 healthy individuals were administered a validated wheel of fortune-type gambling task during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Unconscious processing was elicited using unconscious contextual framing of the zero monetary outcomes as "no loss," "no gain" or as "neutral." Brief passive visual processing of the "no loss" vs. "no gain" contrast by healthy participants yielded bilateral frontal-, temporal- and insular cortices and striatal activations. Between-group comparison revealed smaller activity in the left anterior prefrontal-, left dorsolateral prefrontal-, right temporal- and right insular cortices and in bilateral striatum in PTSD patients with the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activity been more pronounced in those with greater PTSD severity. These observations implicate frontal-, temporal-, and insular cortices along with the striatum in the putative mechanisms underlying unconscious processing of the monetary outcomes. Additionally, our results support the hypothesis that PTSD is associated with primary cortical and subcortical alterations involved in the above processes and that these alterations may be related to some aspects of PTSD symptomatology.
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- Igor Elman
- Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, United States
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- Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, United States
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Hou L, Han ZR, Meng Y, Huang D, Zhou R. Neural evidence of dysfunction of reward processing in women with premenstrual syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2020; 149:107669. [PMID: 33160966 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107669] [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: 04/09/2020] [Revised: 10/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Most studies on the mechanism behind premenstrual syndrome (PMS) have focused on negative emotional overreaction, but little evidence exists regarding the weakening of positive emotions. Given the close relationship between positive emotions and reward processing, the aim of this study is to investigate the dysfunction of reward processing in women with PMS. METHOD Seventeen women with PMS and seventeen healthy women were scanned during a card guessing task in the late luteal phase. By selecting bilateral caudate and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) as seed regions, region-of-interest (ROI) analysis and functional connectivity (psycho-physiological interaction [PPI]) analysis were conducted to compare the difference between two groups. Exploratory whole brain analysis was also conducted to examine the group differences in other reward-related brain regions. RESULTS ROI analysis revealed that healthy women showed stronger activation at the bilateral caudate and OFC when gains were contrasted to losses feedback, whereas women with PMS showed no significant difference between these two conditions. Whole brain analysis indicated that healthy women showed stronger activation at the right middle frontal gyrus (MFG) when gains were contrasted to losses feedback, whereas women with PMS showed no significant difference between these two conditions. Furthermore, separate analysis on healthy women revealed significant clusters of greater activation to gains minus losses that included the bilateral caudate, right middle temporal gyrus, and left inferior occipital gyrus; conversely, no significant clusters of activations to gains minus losses were observed in women with PMS. PPI analysis results revealed that women with PMS exhibited lower functional connectivity between the right caudate and the right cerebellum than healthy women when experiencing gains versus losses. CONCLUSIONS Our findings provide one of the first evidence that PMS is related to dysfunction in reward processing, which could be associated with the weakening of positive emotions.
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- Lulu Hou
- Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China; Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China; School of Nursing, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, 210028, China
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- Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
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Zhang L, Li W, Wang L, Bai T, Ji GJ, Wang K, Tian Y. Altered functional connectivity of right inferior frontal gyrus subregions in bipolar disorder: a resting state fMRI study. J Affect Disord 2020; 272:58-65. [PMID: 32379621 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Revised: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) is a key cortical node in the circuits of emotion and cognitive control, and it has been frequently associated with bipolar disorder (BP); however, a reliable pattern of aberrant rIFG activation and connectivity in bipolar disorder has yet to be established. To further elucidate rIFG abnormalities in different states of bipolar disorder, we examined activation and functional connectivity (FC) in five subregions of rIFG in bipolar disorder. A total of 83 participants, including those with bipolar depression (BPD; n = 25) and bipolar mania (BPM; n = 37) along with healthy control (HC) subjects (n = 26), were examined by resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Both BPD and BPM groups showed higher values of amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) than healthy control in four of the five rIFG subregions except cluster 2(posterior-ventral rIFG). Using five subregions of rIFG as seeds, the decreased FC in bipolar disorder was mainly between posterior-ventral rIFG(cluster 2) and multiple brain regions including the postcentral gyrus, the precentral gyrus, paracentral lobule, lingual Gyrus, fusiform and cerebellum posterior lobe. These results indicated that local activity and FC were altered within specific subregions of the rIFG in BP. These findings may provide the distinct functional connectivity of rIFG subregions in BP and suggest that the cluster2 (posterior-ventral rIFG) circuitry plays a crucial role in BP. Also, such abnormalities might help define a more precise intervention targets.
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- Li Zhang
- Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China;; Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei 230022, China; Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
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- Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China;; Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei 230022, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei 230022, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei 230022, China;; Department of Medical Psychology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
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- Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China;; Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei 230022, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei 230022, China;; Department of Medical Psychology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China.
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- Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China;; Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei 230022, China; Department of Medical Psychology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China.
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