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Migeot J, Hesse E, Fittipaldi S, Mejía J, Fraile M, García AM, García MDC, Ortega R, Lawlor B, Lopez V, Ibáñez A. Allostatic-interoceptive anticipation of social rejection. Neuroimage 2023; 276:120200. [PMID: 37245560 PMCID: PMC11163516 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Anticipating social stress evokes strong reactions in the organism, including interoceptive modulations. However, evidence for this claim comes from behavioral studies, often with inconsistent results, and relates almost solely to the reactive and recovery phase of social stress exposure. Here, we adopted an allostatic-interoceptive predictive coding framework to study interoceptive and exteroceptive anticipatory brain responses using a social rejection task. We analyzed the heart-evoked potential (HEP) and task-related oscillatory activity of 58 adolescents via scalp EEG, and 385 human intracranial recordings of three patients with intractable epilepsy. We found that anticipatory interoceptive signals increased in the face of unexpected social outcomes, reflected in larger negative HEP modulations. Such signals emerged from key brain allostatic-interoceptive network hubs, as shown by intracranial recordings. Exteroceptive signals were characterized by early activity between 1-15 Hz across conditions, and modulated by the probabilistic anticipation of reward-related outcomes, observed over distributed brain regions. Our findings suggest that the anticipation of a social outcome is characterized by allostatic-interoceptive modulations that prepare the organism for possible rejection. These results inform our understanding of interoceptive processing and constrain neurobiological models of social stress.
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Affiliation(s)
- Joaquín Migeot
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago, Chile
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Matemática y Ciencias, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, United States and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, United States and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, United States and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, United States and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Predictive Brain Health Modelling Group, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin, Ireland.
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Smith AR, Jones EL, Subar AR, Do QB, Kircanski K, Leibenluft E, Brotman MA, Pine DS, Silk JS. The role of anxiety and gender in anticipation and avoidance of naturalistic anxiety‐provoking experiences during adolescence: An ecological momentary assessment study. JCPP ADVANCES 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/jcv2.12084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Ashley R. Smith
- National Institute of Mental Health, Emotion and Development Branch Bethesda Maryland USA
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- Department of Psychology University of Denver Denver Colorado USA
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- Department of Psychology University of Denver Denver Colorado USA
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- Department of Psychology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Emotion and Development Branch Bethesda Maryland USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Emotion and Development Branch Bethesda Maryland USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Emotion and Development Branch Bethesda Maryland USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Emotion and Development Branch Bethesda Maryland USA
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- Department of Psychology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA
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Leathem LD, Currin DL, Montoya AK, Karlsgodt KH. Socioemotional mechanisms of loneliness in subclinical psychosis. Schizophr Res 2021; 238:145-151. [PMID: 34688116 PMCID: PMC8896506 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Revised: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Abstract
Loneliness is an important predictor of physical and mental health in the general population and in individuals across the psychosis spectrum, including those experiencing subclinical psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). However, the mechanisms underlying loneliness in the psychosis spectrum are not well understood. Emotion processing deficits are well described across the psychosis spectrum, and socioemotional processing biases are critical for the development and maintenance of loneliness through altered social appraisal, including judgements of rejection. Therefore, we propose that PLEs are associated with increased loneliness, and the relationship is mediated by alterations in socioemotional processing. We also explored how this pathway may be affected by mood and anxiety symptoms, which have been associated with loneliness across the psychosis spectrum. As part of the Human Connectome Project, generally healthy adults (n = 1180) reported symptomatology and social functioning and completed the Penn Emotion Recognition Task to assess efficiency in identifying emotions. We found that higher reported PLEs were associated with elevated levels of loneliness and perceived rejection and that these factors were linked by multiple independent pathways. First, anxiety/depression and emotion processing efficiency independently mediated the PLE-loneliness relationship. Second, we found that the association between PLEs and loneliness was serially mediated through inefficient emotion recognition then higher levels of perceived rejection. These separable mechanisms of increased loneliness in subclinical psychosis have implications for treatment and continued study of social functioning in the psychosis spectrum.
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- Logan D. Leathem
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America,Corresponding author at: Department of Psychology, UCLA, 502 Portola Plaza, 1285 Psychology Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America. (L.D. Leathem)
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America,Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America
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Rapp AM, Tan PZ, Grammer JK, Gehring WJ, Miller GA, Chavira DA. Cultural group differences in the association of neural sensitivity to social feedback and social anxiety among diverse adolescents. J Psychiatr Res 2021; 143:400-408. [PMID: 34637997 PMCID: PMC8557129 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.09.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Social anxiety disproportionately impacts individuals from certain cultural and developmental groups, namely those from Latinx and Asian American cultures and adolescents. Neural sensitivity to social feedback has been shown to vary across individuals and could contribute to this disparity by further exacerbating differences; thus, this could be an important phenomenon for understanding, preventing, and treating social anxiety. The goal of the present study was to examine the association of social anxiety with a neural correlate of feedback processing, the feedback-related negativity (FRN), and determine if there was a moderating effect of racial/ethnic group. A community sample of 104 Latinx (n = 41), Asian American (n = 24), and non-Latinx White (NLW; n = 39) adolescents (ages 13-17) completed a computerized peer feedback task while continuous electroencephalogram was recorded. Social anxiety and FRN measures were differentially associated as a function of race/ethnicity. NLW adolescents demonstrated greater FRN responses to acceptance feedback as social anxiety increased, whereas FRN responses to both rejection and acceptance feedback were related to greater social anxiety for Asian American adolescents. Notably, the Latinx group showed the greatest FRN responses yet endorsed the least amount of social anxiety, with no relation between social anxiety and FRN detected. Results highlight cultural variation in the relation between neural correlates of self-regulatory processes and social anxiety. This information could guide culturally-informed models of social anxiety that adopt a multiple units of analysis framework.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amy M. Rapp
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 502 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90095,Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY, USA, 10032,New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY USA, 10032
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90024,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, 3620 South McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90089
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- Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90095
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 48109
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 502 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90095,Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90024
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 502 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90095
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Smith AR, Nelson EE, Kircanski K, Rappaport BI, Do QB, Leibenluft E, Pine DS, Jarcho JM. Social anxiety and age are associated with neural response to social evaluation during adolescence. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2020; 42:100768. [PMID: 32077442 PMCID: PMC7030986 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Revised: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Adolescence is a sensitive period for the development of adaptive social behaviors and social anxiety, possibly due to aspects of brain development. However, research is needed to examine interactions among age, social anxiety, and social dynamics previously shown to influence neural responding. The current functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study examines brain function in 8-18 year-olds with varying levels of social anxiety. Interactions are examined among age, social anxiety, and two key task factors: valence and predictability of social interactions. Results demonstrate age, social anxiety severity, and each of the two key task-based factors interact to predict neural response in the caudate, middle and superior temporal gyri. In particular, among adolescents less-than 13 years of age, higher social anxiety predicted greater responding to unpredictable negative evaluations. However, in this same age group, the opposite pattern emerged during receipt of unpredictable positive evaluations, with less neural response in more anxious youth. Adolescents aged 13 and older overall showed less robust effects. We discuss these findings in terms of age- and anxiety-related differences in socioemotional processing.
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- A R Smith
- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD United States.
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- Center for Biobehavioral Health, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH United States
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD United States
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD United States
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD United States
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States
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Neuroimaging depression and anxiety in essential tremor: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Clin Imaging 2019; 58:96-104. [PMID: 31284179 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2019.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 05/26/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Patients with essential tremor (ET) may exhibit non-motor features, including those that are neuropsychiatric. Depression and anxiety are the most common among these. This study aims to investigate the possible relationship between microstructural brain changes and symptoms of depression and anxiety in ET. METHODS We assessed 62 ET patients (40 women and 22 men, mean age 46.0 ± 20.4) for symptoms of depression and anxiety using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Thirty-two patients had severe or moderate symptoms of anxiety, and 15 patients had severe or moderate depressive symptoms. Microstructural brain changes were evaluated using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which was reported using fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), radial diffusivity (RD), and axial diffusivity (AD) values calculated for 17 regions of interest including the prefrontal cortex, paralimbic and limbic structures and cerebellar peduncles. We evaluated the relationship between observed changes in brain regions and symptoms of depression and anxiety. RESULTS Decreased left amygdala FA (p = 0.003) and increased left amygdala RD (p = 0.04) were detected in depressed vs. non-depressed ET patients. Left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) FA (p = 0.02) and left precuneus FA (p = 0.02) values differed between anxious patients vs. non-anxious ET patients. BDI scores were correlated with left amygdala FA and left RD, while BAI scores were correlated with left VLPFC FA and left precuneus FA. DISCUSSION Our results provide evidence that symptoms of depression and anxiety could be based in structural brain changes observed in patients with ET.
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Van der Cruijsen R, Peters S, Zoetendaal KPM, Pfeifer JH, Crone EA. Direct and reflected self-concept show increasing similarity across adolescence: A functional neuroimaging study. Neuropsychologia 2019; 129:407-417. [PMID: 31075284 PMCID: PMC7500182 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Revised: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 05/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
In adolescence, the perceived opinions of others are important in the construction of one’s self-concept. Previous studies found involvement of medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC) and temporal-parietal junction (TPJ) in direct (own perspective) and reflected (perceived perspective of others) self-evaluations, but no studies to date examined differences in these processes across adolescence. In this study, 150 adolescents between 11 and 21 years old evaluated their traits from their own perspective and from the perceived perspective of peers in a fMRI session. Results showed overlapping behavioural and neural measures for direct and reflected self-evaluations, in mPFC, precuneus and right TPJ. The difference in behavioural ratings declined with age, and this pattern was mirrored by activity in the mPFC, showing a diminishing difference in activation for direct > reflected self-evaluations with increasing age. Right TPJ was engaged more strongly for reflected > direct evaluations in adolescents who were less positive about themselves, and those who showed who showed less item-by-item agreement between direct and reflected self-evaluations. Together, the results suggest that the internalization of others’ opinions in constructing a self-concept occurs on both the behavioural and neural levels across adolescence, which may aid in developing a stable self-concept.
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- Renske Van der Cruijsen
- Department of Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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- Department of Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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- Department of Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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