Cited by 128Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesTreatment of Major Depression

Abnormal prefrontal activity subserving attentional control of emotion in remitted depressed patients during a working memory task with emotional distracters

Kerestes, R., Ladouceur, C. D., Meda, S., Nathan, P. J., Blumberg, H. P., Maloney, K., Ruf, B., Saricicek, A. +3 more·2012·Psychological Medicine

Abstract

Background: Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) show deficits in processing of facial emotions that persist beyond recovery and cessation of treatment. Abnormalities in neural areas supporting attentional control and emotion processing in remitted depressed (rMDD) patients suggests that there may be enduring, trait-like abnormalities in key neural circuits at the interface of cognition and emotion, but this issue has not been studied systematically. Method: Nineteen euthymic, medication-free rMDD patients (mean age 33.6 years; mean duration of illness 34 months) and 20 age- and gender-matched healthy controls (HC; mean age 35.8 years) performed the Emotional Face N-Back (EFNBACK) task, a working memory task with emotional distracter stimuli. We used blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure neural activity in the dorsolateral (DLPFC) and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ventral striatum and amygdala, using a region of interest (ROI) approach in SPM2. Results: rMDD patients exhibited significantly greater activity relative to HC in the left DLPFC [Brodmann area (BA) 9/46] in response to negative emotional distracters during high working memory load. By contrast, rMDD patients exhibited significantly lower activity in the right DLPFC and left VLPFC compared to HC in response to positive emotional distracters during high working memory load. These effects occurred during accurate task performance. Conclusions: Remitted depressed patients may continue to exhibit attentional biases toward negative emotional information, reflected by greater recruitment of prefrontal regions implicated in attentional control in the context of negative emotional information.

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Kerestes, R., Ladouceur, C. D., Meda, S., Nathan, P. J., Blumberg, H. P., Maloney, K., Ruf, B., Saricicek, A., Pearlson, G. D., Bhagwagar, Z., & Phillips, M. L.
Affiliations
  • Yale University (US)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
Corresponding author
Kerestes, R.
Venue
Psychological Medicine
Published
2011-07-07
Volume
42
Issue
1
Pages
29-40
ISSN
  • 0033-2917 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8978
OpenAlex
W2031594408
Cited by
128
References
69
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FWCI
4.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Psychological Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5k23mh077914-02, 5r01mh076971-05)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH076971, K23-MH077914, K01MH083001, R01MH074797, 5 R37 MH43775-14, R37MH043775, R01MH077945)
  • National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR024139)
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 › Treatment of Major Depression
Keywords
remitted depression, major depressive disorder, attentional control, attentional bias, working memory, emotional distracters, prefrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, ventral striatum, emotional face processing
MeSH terms
Adult, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Basal Ganglia, Brain Mapping, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Regression Analysis, Case-Control Studies, Prefrontal Cortex

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