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Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity
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Aversive events are typically more debilitating when they occur unpredictably than predictably. Studies in humans and animals indicate that predictable and unpredictable aversive events can induce phasic and sustained fear, respectively. Research in rodents suggests that anatomically related but distinct neural circuits may mediate phasic and sustained fear. We explored this issue in humans by examining threat predictability in three virtual reality contexts, one in which electric shocks were predictably signaled by a cue, a second in which shocks occurred unpredictably but never paired with a cue, and a third in which no shocks were delivered. Evidence of threat-induced phasic and sustained fear was presented using fear ratings and skin conductance. Utilizing recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we were able to conduct whole-brain fMRI at relatively high spatial resolution and still have enough sensitivity to detect transient and sustained signal changes in the basal forebrain. We found that both predictable and unpredictable threat evoked transient activity in the dorsal amygdala, but that only unpredictable threat produced sustained activity in a forebrain region corresponding to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis complex. Consistent with animal models hypothesizing a role for the cortex in generating sustained fear, sustained signal increases to unpredictable threat were also found in anterior insula and a frontoparietal cortical network associated with hypervigilance. In addition, unpredictable threat led to transient activity in the ventral amygdala–hippocampal area and pregenual anterior cingulate cortex, as well as transient activation and subsequent deactivation of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, limbic structures that have been implicated in the regulation of emotional behavior and stress responses. In line with basic findings in rodents, these results provide evidence that phasic and sustained fear in humans may manifest similar signs of distress, but appear to be associated with different patterns of neural activity in the human basal forebrain.
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“Whereas a comparison between Uons and Nons revealed increased transient activity in anterior BNST (t17=4.41, P<0.001), a comparison between Ucxt and Ncxt showed no significant difference in sustained activity in anterior BNST (t17=1.42, P=0.18).”
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“Compared to the predictable context, the unpredictable context induced enhanced transient activity in the thalamus, mid-cingulate, and pregenual anterior cingulate cortex as well (Table 2).”
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“As was found in Uons>Nons and Uons>Pons, the predictable context transiently increased activity bilaterally in the anterior part of the BNST complex compared to the no-shock context (Table 1).”
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“Consistent with the voxel-wise analyses, there was a trend for Ucxt to show greater sustained activity in dorsal BNST relative to Ncxt (t17=1.82, P=0.08).”
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“Follow-up analyses of left and right dorsal amygdala ROIs yielded a similar result (left, t17=0.23, P=0.82; right, t17=0.71, P=0.49).”
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“Importantly, unpredictable threat elicited sustained increased activity in the dorsal portion of the BNST complex (Table 1, Fig. 3C) in the approximate vicinity of the supracapsular BNST.”
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“This contrast revealed greater brain activity to Pcue than Ucue in a region of the dorsal amygdala overlapping the dorsal amygdala activation in Pcue>Ncue (Table 1).”
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“but that only unpredictable threat produced sustained activity in a forebrain region corresponding to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis complex”
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“In addition, Uons compared to Pons showed that transient activity in anterior BNST was greater to the unpredictable context than the predictable context (t17=2.27, P<0.05), and Pons compared to Nons showed that transient activation of anterior BNST tended to be greater to the predictable context than the no-shock context (t17=1.93, P<0.07).”
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“However, when whole-brain correction was performed using a voxel-wise threshold of P<0.05, the unpredictable context showed a sustained deactivation in subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sACC) relative to the predictable context (Table 2)”
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“a brief, discrete cue that predictably signals an imminent threat evokes a rapid apprehensive state (phasic fear) that diminishes quickly once the threat is terminated”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Introduction
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- Partly supportedcites Fanselow, 1994 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The discussion of discrete conditioned stimuli (§4S; page unavailable) identifies brief tones and lights as learned threat cues, and the paper describes defensive behavior changing with threat imminence. But it associates active defenses with inevitable physical contact, not simply a predictive cue. It also describes an activity burst after shock giving way to freezing, rather than saying fear quickly diminishes when the threat ends. (LLM, conf=0.85)
- Supportedcites Grillon, 2008 source
The Context conditioning section (p. 4) says a discrete cue precisely predicts imminent threat and elicits phasic fear. Discriminating fear from anxiety (p. 2) describes fear as a phasic emergency reaction involving defensive responses, while Verbal instructions (p. 7) reports phasic startle potentiation during a predictable threat cue. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Transient activation of the ventral amygdala was present but not statistically significant after correction.”
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“We found no significant differences in sustained activity in the extended amygdala between unpredictable and predictable contexts, or predictable and no-shock contexts (Table 1).”
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“and that the unpredictable context (Ucxt) [ANX: 7.3 (0.3); SCR: 0.33 (0.06)] was more anxiogenic than the no-shock context (Ncxt) [ANX: 0.7 (0.2); t17=18.5, P<0.001; SCR: 0.14 (0.03); t17=4.8, P<0.001] and predictable context (Pcxt) [ANX: 4.3 (0.5); t17=7.7, P<0.001; SCR: 0.26 (0.04); t17=1.8, P=0.09].”
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“Follow-up analyses indicated that increased transient activity in response to unpredictable threat was significant in the right dorsal amygdala but not the left (Fig. 5A; left, t17=0.58; P=0.57; right, t17=2.57; P=0.02).”
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“The predictable context also generated sustained increased activity in superior and middle frontal cortex, and sustained decreased activity in the cerebellum and medial orbital cortex relative to the no-shock context (Table 2).”
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“With this value temporarily removed from the analysis, the difference in sustained activity between Ucxt and Ncxt was significant in bilateral dorsal BNST (t16=2.27, P=0.037) and left dorsal BNST (left, t16=2.89, P=0.011; right, t16=1.44, P=0.17).”
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“Subjects rated the shock level used in the study as moderately painful (mean=3.4; SD=0.4) based on a 1–5 scale (1, not at all; 3, moderately; 5, extremely).”
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“The peak coordinates of the right BNST (9 0 10) activation were identical to those associated with the onset of unpredictable threat, but the peak coordinates of the left BNST (−6 0 6) activation were slightly more posteromedial and ventral compared to those associated with unpredictable threat onset (−9 2 10 ).”
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“We also found sustained increased activity in anterior insula, frontal (superior, inferior, middle, frontopolar) and inferior parietal cortical regions, and the mid-cingulate (Table 2, Fig. 4C and D).”
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“As in the voxel-wise analyses, no significant differences were found in sustained activity in dorsal BNST between unpredictable and predictable contexts (Ucxt>Pcxt, t17=1.13, P=0.28), or predictable and no-shock contexts (Pcxt>Ncxt, t17=0.75, P=0.47).”
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“Note that with the previously indentified “outlier” removed from the analysis, the linear trend in sustained activity across contexts was significant in bilateral dorsal BNST (F(1, 16)=5.17, P=0.037) and left dorsal BNST (left; F(1, 16)=8.37, P=0.010; right, F(1, 16)=2.07, P=0.169).”
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“Whereas both predictable and unpredictable threat contexts evoked transient activity in sACC, thereafter unpredictable threat contexts were associated with a greater sustained decrease in sACC activity.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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“Rodent data suggest that phasic fear responses rely on the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA), which in humans is located in the dorsal part of the amygdala (Amunts et al., 2005)”
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“animal models of sustained fear posit that cortical inputs from the insula may also underlie sustained fear, possibly mediating cognitive components of anxious apprehension (Davis et al., 2010b).”
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- Not checked yetcites Davis et al., 2010b
- Not checked yetcites McDonald et al., 1999 source
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“neuroimaging studies in humans have likewise implicated the amygdala in fear acquisition and extinction (Buchel et al., 1998; LaBar et al., 1998; Milad et al., 2007; Phelps et al., 2004)”
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“However, Somerville et al. (2010) recently examined the role of the BNST in anxious-related vigilance.”
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- Not checked yetcites Somerville et al. (2010) source
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“Rodent data suggest that highly related but partially distinct functional neuroanatomical networks may underlie phasic and sustained fear (Davis et al., 2010b).”
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- Not checked yetcites Davis et al., 2010b
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“We tested these predictions using a well-validated instructed threat procedure (Davis et al., 2010b; Grillon et al., 2004), and neuroimaging methods that assured good signal detection of transient cue- and context-related responses, as well as sustained context-related responses in the basal forebrain.”
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“sustained fear responses are dependent on the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), which is located in the ventromedial basal forebrain and receives input from the CeA and the more ventrally located basolateral amygdala complex (BLC) (Walker and Davis, 2008)”
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- Not checked yetcites Walker and Davis, 2008 source
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“Hasler et al. (2007) found that a visual threat cue increased cerebral blood flow in the left amygdala relative to a comparable safe cue.”
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- Not checked yetcites Hasler et al. (2007) source
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“Because the CeA and BNST project to the same neural mediators of fear symptoms, each of these components of the extended amygdala are capable of generating defensive responses (Davis and Whalen, 2001).”
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“an area that also has strong projections to medial prefrontal cortical regions associated with the regulation of emotions and visceral reactions (Price and Drevets, 2010).”
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- Not checked yetcites Price and Drevets, 2010 source
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“Though no shocks were ever administered, the threat cue evoked enhanced arousal and fear as indexed by skin conductance, and relative to the safe cue, produced a rapid and short-lasting activation in left dorsal amygdala.”
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- Not checked yetcites Phelps et al. (2001) source
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“compared to generic cost functionals, provides superior spatial alignment between T2*- and T1-weighted images in brain structures near the ventricles (Saad et al., 2009).”
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- Not checked yetcites Saad et al., 2009 source
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“This allowed us to conduct whole-brain fMRI at roughly 4 times higher spatial resolution (1.7 × 1.7 × 3.5 mm3) and still have enough sensitivity to detect BOLD signal changes (Bodurka et al., 2007).”
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“Because animal models of sustained fear hypothesize that a part of the CeA different from that involved in phasic fear may be transiently involved in initiating sustained fear (Davis et al., 2010b), we tested for a transient fear response to unpredictable threat in bilateral dorsal amygdala.”
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- Not checked yetcites Davis et al., 2010b
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“A log transformation (log [1 + SCR]) was performed to normalize the distribution, and the magnitudes were range corrected (SCR/SCRmax) for each subject to attain statistical normality and to reduce error variance (Lykken and Venables, 1971).”
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- Not checked yetcites Lykken and Venables, 1971
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“statistical conclusions concerning the extended amygdala were based on small volume correction (SVC) for multiple tests (Worsley et al., 1996).”
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- Not checked yetcites Worsley et al., 1996 source
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“Anatomical delineation of the BNST was performed using a standardized protocol by a trained research assistant blind to the subjects' identity and adherence to the protocol was assessed by the first author.”
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“These results also confirm that under predictable threat, the cue elicited a phasic apprehensive state that was greater than that elicited by other cues, and greater than the predictable context in the absence of a cue.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Results
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“Therefore, the absence of cues in Pcxt may have signaled relative safety; however, unlike Ncxt, Pcxt was not a safe context in an absolute sense because Pcxt was associated with cue-related shock, much like the context in background contextual conditioning studies (Calandreau et al., 2005).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Materials and methods > Experimental procedures
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“The above correction procedures resulted in a minimum cluster size threshold of 40 mm3 for the extended amygdala, and a minimum cluster size threshold of 120 mm3 for all other brain regions.”
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“To optimize our ability to detect fMRI signal changes from small brain structures and to avoid any reduction in spatial resolution, we did not spatially filter or smooth the EPI data.”
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“Since entry into each context occurred at several locations within the VR environment, it is unlikely that the onset of a context would be associated with any specific cue within a context.”
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“Imaging at a higher spatial resolution can decrease partial volume effects but can come at the cost of a reduced MRI signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) (Edelstein et al., 1986).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Edelstein et al., 1986 source
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“Retrospective fear ratings obtained immediately following scanning were used to confirm understanding of the threat instructions.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Materials and methods > Experimental procedures
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“Previous studies of instructed fear using simple threat cues (e.g., colored squares) have associated phasic fear responses with a left hemisphere bias (Phelps et al., 2001; Funayama et al., 2001; Hasler et al., 2007).”
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“Besides the 18 subjects included in the study, 4 were excluded because of excessive shock-related head motion (n=1), failure of the shock delivery system (n=2), and scanner malfunction (n=1).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Materials and methods > Subjects
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“All subjects in the study exhibited minimal head motion during imaging (mean= 2.1 mm, SD=1.6).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Materials and methods > Subjects
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“Previous research in our laboratory has shown that similarly constructed VR stimuli are effective for studying context manipulations in the MRI environment (Alvarez et al., 2008).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Materials and methods > Experimental procedures
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- Not checked yetcites Alvarez et al., 2008 source
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“To ensure that subjects understood the threat procedure, they were exposed to the VR contexts and tone prior to the study, and were required to paraphrase the shock and no-shock contingencies.”
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“The quality of coregistration between EPI and anatomical datasets was visually verified for each subject.”
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“Context assignment was reversed for the remaining subjects so as to counterbalance across subjects which environment was associated with predictable and unpredictable shock; the virtual restaurant was always the no-shock context.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Materials and methods > Experimental procedures
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“SCRs to cue and context onset that were contaminated by a shock, or an early cue in the case of a context, were omitted from analyses, assuring that the SCR data were not affected by nuisance factors.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Materials and methods > Experimental procedures
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“these results provide evidence that phasic and sustained fear in humans may manifest similar signs of distress, but appear to be associated with different patterns of neural activity in the human basal forebrain.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Abstract
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“Because subjects in the present study were forewarned of the threat associated with each cue, subjects encountering a predictable cue would be expected to engage in conscious appraisal of imminent threat.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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“It is also consistent with previous studies showing a rapid reduction in amygdala activation over time in fear conditioning (Buchel et al., 1998; LaBar et al., 1998) and threat of shock (Phelps et al., 2001).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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“This result is consistent with studies in rodents, primates, and humans that demonstrate a role for the CeA in mediating behavioral and physiological responses evoked by conditioned and unconditioned stimuli including contexts (Davis and Whalen, 2001; Kalin et al., 2004; LeDoux, 2000).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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“Hence, any conclusions regarding fMRI signals in the CeA must remain tentative.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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“This conjecture is supported by research indicating that the BLC is well positioned to receive incoming sensory information concerning threats in the environment, and to convey this information to output areas including the CeA and BNST (Amaral et al., 1992; Dong et al., 2001).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Amaral et al., 1992
- Not checked yetcites Dong et al., 2001 source
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“This null finding is perplexing considering that ROIs typically increase the power to detect an effect.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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“The posterior cingulate and precuneus are part of a cortical midline network associated with self-referential processing in the spatial domain (Northoff et al., 2006)”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Northoff et al., 2006 source
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“It has been suggested that anterior insula might mediate cognitive aspects of worry (Walker and Davis, 2008).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Walker and Davis, 2008 source
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“According to this model, cortical and subcortical input converge on the basolateral amygdala and lateral CeA, which in turn project to the lateral BNST and trigger a cascade of neurochemical release, resulting in a relatively long-lasting apprehensive state.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Davis et al., 2010b
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“The supracapsular BNST is a small basal forebrain structure that is relatively well developed in humans (Strenge et al., 1977).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Strenge et al., 1977
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“A comparable area of the BNST has been associated with hypervigilant threat monitoring (Somerville et al., 2010).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Somerville et al., 2010 source
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“suggesting that imminent threats likely evoke greater phasic fear than temporally unpredictable threats, but the latter may give rise to greater vigilance.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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“Because enhanced activity in the BNST occurred during an anticipatory period of 10–28 s, Straube et al. (2007) interpreted their finding as evidence for BNST involvement in anticipatory anxiety.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Straube et al. (2007) source
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“This proposal is compatible with a recently described neural model of sustained fear (Davis et al., 2010b).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Davis et al., 2010b
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“The supracapsular and lateral BNST share a similar cellular and neurochemical makeup, and the supracapsular BNST merges into and shares afferent and efferent pathways with the lateral BNST (Shammah-Lagnado et al., 2000)”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Shammah-Lagnado et al., 2000 source
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“Conscious appraisal processes have been hypothesized to involve a neural circuit including the dmPFC/dACC (Mechias et al., 2010).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Mechias et al., 2010 source
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“This may account for the dynamic pattern of activation observed in sACC in response to unpredictable threat.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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“Contexts that signal a longer duration threat initially elicit transient activity in the ventral amygdala/hippocampus and dorsal amygdala, with the former structures possibly being responsible for activation of the latter.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Summary and caveats
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“Subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sACC) is central to the medial prefrontal network that has been associated with mood and anxiety dysregulation, and has been implicated in the regulation of visceral responses during stress and anxiety (Price and Drevets, 2010).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Price and Drevets, 2010 source
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“In addition, we suggest that long-duration states of anxiety engender hypervigilance mediated by frontoparietal networks, and modulation of visceral function via mechanisms within anterior insula, pACC and sACC.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Summary and caveats
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“The finding that unpredictable threat induced sustained activity of frontoparietal areas involved in sustained attention (Pardo et al., 1991), is consistent with previous neuroimaging studies linking unpredictable threat to hypervigilance (Carlsson et al., 2006; Hasler et al., 2007).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Pardo et al., 1991 source
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“In the present study, unpredictable threat contexts compared to predictable threat contexts elicited greater transient activity in pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pACC), a cingulate subregion that differs from sACC in its cytological and transmitter receptor architecture (Palomero-Gallagher, et al., 2008).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Palomero-Gallagher, et al., 2008 source
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“Although the medial prefrontal network was not the focus of this study, the activations observed in this network are consistent with previous imaging studies implicating medial prefrontal cortex in distal threat (Mobbs et al., 2009), and suggest that contextually induced sustained anxiety may involve complex oscillations in neural activity in key prefrontal regions such as pACC and sACC.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Mobbs et al., 2009 source
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“Previous neuroimaging findings indicating that contextual fear conditioning elicits sustained activity in anterior insula are consistent with this interpretation (Alvarez et al., 2008).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Alvarez et al., 2008 source
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“Notwithstanding the limitations of this investigation, the present study took advantage of recent advances in fMRI data acquisition and processing, allowing us to conduct whole-brain fMRI at about 4 times higher spatial resolution than typical fMRI studies, yet still have sufficient sensitivity to detect small signal changes in the basal forebrain.”
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“Clinical studies indicate that metabolism in sACC is elevated in the depressed phase relative to the remitted phase of the same patients with major depressive disorder (Drevets et al., 2008).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Not checked yetcites Drevets et al., 2008 source
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“To sum up, the present study suggests that predictable and unpredictable threats can induce phasic and sustained fear in humans, and that these apprehensive states elicit distinct patterns of activation in the basal forebrain including, potentially, the extended amygdala.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Summary and caveats
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In the paper
“The finding that unpredictable threat induced sustained activity of frontoparietal areas involved in sustained attention (Pardo et al., 1991), is consistent with previous neuroimaging studies linking unpredictable threat to hypervigilance (Carlsson et al., 2006; Hasler et al., 2007).”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Predictable and unpredictable threat are associated with different patterns of brain activation
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- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
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In the paper
“The present study provides further support for this hypothesis.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Summary and caveats
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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Probably not a substantial claim.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Conscious appraisal of predictable threat cues may activate threat evaluation processes in dmPFC/dACC.”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Discussion > Summary and caveats
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: fails — The paper may give no reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
The paper relies on this without support.
It is currently unclear whether similar mechanisms support the expression of phasic and sustained fear in humans.
“It is currently unclear whether similar mechanisms support the expression of phasic and sustained fear in humans.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Standard fMRI voxel volumes are typically not small enough to decrease partial volume effects nor provide the spatial resolution required to detect fMRI signal changes from small brain regions.
“Standard fMRI voxel volumes (e.g., 3.8 × 3.8 × 4.0 mm3) are typically not small enough to decrease partial volume effects nor do they provide the spatial resolution required to detect fMRI signal changes from small brain regions.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The transition at context onset prevented unwanted orienting responses.
“This transition at context onset prevented unwanted orienting responses.”
Claims other papers make about this one
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In the citing paper
“Also, it appears to be involved in anticipatory anxiety and threat monitoring.[32][33][34]”
From Electrical stimulation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis alleviates severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (2016) · cites this paper as [32]
In the citing paper
“both Alvarez et al (2011) and Mobbs et al (2010) also show amygdala activation during threat conditions, highlighting the well-documented role of the amygdala in evaluating threat”
From The human BNST: functional role in anxiety and addiction (2016) · cites this paper as Alvarez et al (2011)
In the citing paper
“Alvarez et al (2011) used the NPU-threat task to examine brain responses during unpredictable contexts compared with predictable contexts.Analogous to findings in rodents, the BNST was active during unpredictable threat ('anxiety') conditions but not during predictable threat ('fear') conditions, whereas the amygdala showed the opposite pattern-the amygdala was active during predictable threat”
From The human BNST: functional role in anxiety and addiction (2016) · cites this paper as Alvarez et al (2011)
Statistics that don’t add up
Each reported p-value recomputed from its test statistic and degrees of freedom.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
“F(1, 17)=4.21, P=0.055”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Results
Reported p = .055 · recomputed p = .056
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
“F(1, 17)=5.80, P=0.027”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Results
Reported p = .027 · recomputed p = .028
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
“F(1, 16)=8.37, P=0.010”
§ Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity > Results
Reported p = .01 · recomputed p = .011
Statistics recomputed
Every reported test result, recomputed from its test statistic and degrees of freedom. A result shows as not adding up only once an independent check has confirmed it.
- Doesn’t add upF(1, 17) = 5.8reported p = .027 · recomputed p = .028
“F(1, 17)=5.80, p = .027”
- Doesn’t add upF(1, 17) = 4.21reported p = .055 · recomputed p = .056
“F(1, 17)=4.21, p = .055”
- Doesn’t add upF(1, 16) = 8.37reported p = .01 · recomputed p = .011
“F(1, 16)=8.37, p = .010”
- Not confirmedF(1, 17) = 1.72reported p = .206 · recomputed p = .207
“F(1, 17)=1.72, p = .206”
- ConsistentF(1.6, 27.5) = 38.13reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“F(1.6, 27.5)=38.13, p < .001”
- ConsistentF(1.6, 28.5) = 17.74reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“F(1.6, 28.5)= 17.74, p < .001”
- ConsistentF(1, 17) = 343.2reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“F(1,17)=343.2, p < .001”
- ConsistentF(1, 17) = 22.9reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“F(1,17)=22.9, p < .001”
- ConsistentF(1, 17) = 19.44reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“F(1, 17)=19.44, p < .001”
- ConsistentF(1, 17) = 14.45reported p = .0014 · recomputed p = .001
“F(1, 17)=14.45, p = .0014”
- ConsistentF(1, 17) = 3.32reported p = .086 · recomputed p = .086
“F(1, 17)=3.32, p = .086”
- ConsistentF(1, 16) = 5.17reported p = .037 · recomputed p = .037
“F(1, 16)=5.17, p = .037”
- ConsistentF(1, 16) = 2.07reported p = .169 · recomputed p = .169
“F(1, 16)=2.07, p = .169”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Alvarez, R. P., Chen, G., Bodurka, J., Kaplan, R., & Grillon, C.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Alvarez, Ruben P.
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 389-400
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3100535
- OpenAlex
- W2027289999
- Semantic Scholar
- 99e0c06ed1cdabb20db71e1b5b5f5ffe3ba61183
- Cited by
- 299
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 7.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (ZIAMH002798)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, anterior insula, hypervigilance, pregenual anterior cingulate cortex, subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, basal forebrain, skin conductance
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Fear, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Nerve Net, Young Adult
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