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Hua JPY, Trull TJ, Merrill AM, Tidwell EA, Kerns JG. Functional connectivity between the ventral anterior cingulate and amygdala during implicit emotional conflict regulation and daily-life emotion dysregulation. Neuropsychologia 2021; 158:107905. [PMID: 34058174 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Emotional conflict adaptation involving ventral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) suppression of the amygdala is thought to be important in emotion regulation, with evidence of impaired implicit emotion regulation in emotional distress disorders. However, it is unclear how this impairment is associated with daily-life emotion dysregulation in emotional distress disorders. In the current study, female participants with an emotional distress disorder (N = 27) were scanned with MRI while completing an implicit emotion conflict regulation task that involved identifying the facial expression of an image while ignoring an overlaid congruent or incongruent affect label. Participants then completed two weeks of ambulatory assessment of daily-life emotion dysregulation. Consistent with previous research on comorbid emotional distress disorders (Etkin and Schatzberg, 2011), there was no behavioral effect of emotional conflict adaptation (p = .701) but a significant effect of congruent adaptation (p = .006), suggesting impairment is specific to implicit emotional conflict regulation. Additionally, there was no neural evidence of emotional conflict adaptation in the ventral ACC and amygdala (ps > .766). Further, in our primary psychophysiological interactions analyses, we examined ventral ACC-amygdala functional connectivity. As hypothesized, increased ventral ACC-amygdala functional connectivity for emotional conflict adaptation was associated with increased daily-life affective instability (p = .022), but not mean daily-life negative affect (p = .372). Overall, results provide behavioral and neural evidence of impaired implicit emotional conflict adaptation in individuals with emotional distress disorders and suggests that this impairment is related to daily-life affective instability in these disorders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jessica P Y Hua
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA; Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Centers, San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; Mental Health Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA; Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, 64128, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
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Alders GL, Davis AD, MacQueen G, Strother SC, Hassel S, Zamyadi M, Sharma GB, Arnott SR, Downar J, Harris JK, Lam RW, Milev R, Müller DJ, Ravindran A, Kennedy SH, Frey BN, Minuzzi L, Hall GB. Reduced accuracy accompanied by reduced neural activity during the performance of an emotional conflict task by unmedicated patients with major depression: A CAN-BIND fMRI study. J Affect Disord 2019; 257:765-773. [PMID: 31400735 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.07.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2019] [Revised: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 07/04/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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METHODS We studied 48 MDD and 30 HC who performed an emotional conflict task in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. RESULTS On the emotional conflict task, MDD and HC demonstrated a robust emotional Stroop effect in reaction time and accuracy. Overall, accuracy was lower in MDD compared to HC with no significant reaction time differences. The fMRI data indicated lower BOLD activation in MDD compared to HC on comparisons of all trials, congruent, incongruent, and incongruent > congruent trials in regions including right inferior temporal gyrus, lateral occipital cortex, and occipital fusiform gyrus. Behavioural and neuroimaging data indicated no group differences in fearful versus happy face processing. LIMITATIONS Inclusion of a neutral condition may have provided a valuable contrast to how MDD and HC process stimuli without emotional valence compared to stimuli with a strong emotional valence. CONCLUSIONS MDD and HC demonstrated a robust emotional Stroop effect. Compared to HC, MDD demonstrated an overall reduced accuracy on the emotional conflict task and reduced BOLD activity in regions important for face perception and emotion information processing, with no differences in responding to fearful versus happy faces. These findings provide support for the theory of emotion context insensitivity in individuals with depression.
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- Gésine L Alders
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Mental Health, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Queen's University, Providence Care Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Mental Health, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Depression and Suicide Studies, and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Women's Health Concerns Clinic, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Mood Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Women's Health Concerns Clinic, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
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