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Altered Emotional Interference Processing in Affective and Cognitive-Control Brain Circuitry in Major Depression

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Background Major depression is characterized by a negativity bias: an enhanced responsiveness to, and memory for, affectively negative stimuli. However, it is not yet clear whether this bias represents 1) impaired top-down cognitive control over affective responses, potentially linked to deficits in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex function; or 2) enhanced bottom-up responses to affectively laden stimuli that dysregulate cognitive control mechanisms, potentially linked to deficits in amygdala and anterior cingulate function.Methods We used an attentional interference task using emotional distracters to test for top-down versus bottom-up dysfunction in the interaction of cognitive-control circuitry and emotion-processing circuitry. A total of 27 patients with major depression and 24 control participants was tested. Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging was carried out as participants directly attended to, or attempted to ignore, fear-related stimuli.Results Compared with control subjects, patients with depression showed an enhanced amygdala response to unattended fear-related stimuli (relative to unattended neutral). By contrast, control participants showed increased activity in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Brodmann areas 46/9) when ignoring fear stimuli (relative to neutral), which the patients with depression did not show. In addition, the depressed participants failed to show evidence of error-related cognitive adjustments (increased activity in bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on posterror trials), but the control group did show them.Conclusions These results suggest multiple sources of dysregulation in emotional and cognitive control circuitry in depression, implicating both top-down and bottom-up dysfunction.

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Authors
Fales, C. L., Barch, D. M., Rundle, M. M., Mintun, M. A., Snyder, A. Z., Cohen, J. D., Mathews, J., & Sheline, Y. I.
Affiliations
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • Princeton University (US)
Corresponding author
Sheline, Yvette I.
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-02
Volume
63
Issue
4
Pages
377-384
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2161710337
Cited by
517
References
55
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 35 · 2015: 35 · 2014: 34 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 38
FWCI
11.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH066031, R01 MH06603101, R01 MH64821, R01MH064821)
  • National Center for Research Resources (K24 RR18192, K24RR018192)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Treatment of Major Depression
Keywords
major depressive disorder, negativity bias, emotional interference, attentional interference, top-down cognitive control, amygdala, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, emotional distracters, event-related fMRI
MeSH terms
Adult, Affect, Amygdala, Attention, Cognition, Cognition Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Face, Fear, Female, Gyrus Cinguli, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Nerve Net, Neuropsychological Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires, Visual Perception

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