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Co-occurring anxiety influences patterns of brain activity in depression

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Engels, A. S., Heller, W., Spielberg, J. M., Warren, S. L., Sutton, B. P., Banich, M. T., Miller, G. A.·2010·Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Brain activation associated with anhedonic depression and co-occurring anxious arousal and anxious apprehension was measured by fMRI during performance of an emotion word Stroop task. Consistent with EEG findings, depression was associated with rightward frontal lateralization in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), but only when anxious arousal was elevated and anxious apprehension was low. Activity in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) was also reduced for depression under the same conditions. In contrast, depression was associated with more activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (dorsal ACC and rostral ACC) and the bilateral amygdala. Results imply that depression, particularly when accompanied by anxious arousal, may result in a failure to implement top-down processing by appropriate brain regions (left DLPFC, right IFG) due to increased activation in regions associated with responding to emotionally salient information (right DLPFC, amygdala).

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Authors
Engels, A. S., Heller, W., Spielberg, J. M., Warren, S. L., Sutton, B. P., Banich, M. T., & Miller, G. A.
Affiliations
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • University of Colorado Boulder (US)
Corresponding author
Engels, A. S.
Venue
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Published
2010-03-01
Volume
10
Issue
1
Pages
141-156
ISSN
  • 1530-7026 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-135X
OpenAlex
W2013128451
Cited by
133
References
83
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6.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH-61358, P50MH079485, T32MH019554, T32 MH-19554, R01MH061358)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21DA014111, R21 DA 14111)
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
anhedonic depression, anxious arousal, anxious apprehension, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal gyrus, anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, top-down processing
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety, Association, Brain, Brain Mapping, Depression, Emotions, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reaction Time, Time Factors, Vocabulary, Multivariate Analysis, Young Adult

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