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Neural correlates of rumination in depression

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Cooney, Rebecca E., Joormann, Jutta, Eugène, Fanny, Dennis, Emily L., Gotlib, Ian H.·2010·Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Rumination, or recursive self-focused thinking, has important implications for understanding the development and maintenance of depressive episodes. Rumination is associated with the worsening of negative mood states, greater affective responding to negative material, and increased access to negative memories. The present study was designed to use fMRI to examine neural aspects of rumination in depressed and healthy control individuals. We used a rumination induction task to assess differences in patterns of neural activation during ruminative self-focus as compared with a concrete distraction condition and with a novel abstract distraction condition in 14 participants who were diagnosed with major depressive disorder and 14 healthy control participants. Depressed participants exhibited increased activation in the orbitofrontal cortex, subgenual anterior cingulate, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as compared with healthy controls during rumination versus concrete distraction. Neural activity during rumination versus abstract distraction was greater for depressed than for control participants in the amygdala, rostral anterior cingulate/medial prefrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate, and parahippocampus. These findings indicate that ruminative self-focus is associated with enhanced recruitment of limbic and medial and dorsolateral prefrontal regions in depression. Supplemental materials for this article may be downloaded from http://cabn.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.

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  • One of the most frequently reported neuroimaging findings in MDD is abnormally increased connectivity and heightened activation of the amygdala.

    “One of the most frequently reported neuroimaging findings in MDD is abnormally increased connectivity and heightened activation of the amygdala 99-101 .”

    From Major depressive disorder (2016) · cites this paper as [100]

    The Between-groups activations section reports greater amygdala activation in MDD participants than in controls during rumination versus abstract distraction. It does not report increased amygdala connectivity or establish that these are among the most frequently reported neuroimaging findings in MDD. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Task-based studies examining trait levels of worry or depressive rumination or instructions to worry or ruminate demonstrate neural activations in nodes of the DN.

    “Similarly, task-based studies examining trait levels of worry or depressive rumination (e.g., Paulus and Stein, 2010; Hamilton et al., 2011) or instructions to worry or ruminate (e.g., Cooney et al., 2010; Paulus and Stein, 2010; Ottaviani et al., 2016) demonstrate neural activations in nodes of the DN.”
  • Decreased frontoparietal connectivity has been found both at rest and in response to negative stimuli, but not in response to positive stimuli.

    “Moreover, decreased frontoparietal connectivity has been found both at rest and in response to negative stimuli, but not in response to positive stimuli, suggesting that this network may contribute to inappropriate cognitive appraisals of negative events more specifically 100,105 .”

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    The Between-groups activations section reports regional activation differences, not frontoparietal connectivity at rest or in response to negative stimuli. It also states that the study presented only neutral statements and that responses to positive and negative stimuli require further research. Searches for frontoparietal and functional connectivity found no passage establishing the claimed pattern; page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.77)

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Authors
Cooney, R. E., Joormann, J., Eugène, F., Dennis, E. L., & Gotlib, I. H.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • University of Miami (US)
  • Concordia University (CA)
Corresponding author
Cooney, Rebecca E.
Venue
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Published
2010-12
Volume
10
Issue
4
Pages
470-478
ISSN
  • 1530-7026 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-135X
OpenAlex
W2083730492
Cited by
493
References
44
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FWCI
27.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (MH59259, R01MH059259)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
Keywords
rumination, major depressive disorder, neural correlates, orbitofrontal cortex, subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, amygdala, limbic system, medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, parahippocampal cortex
MeSH terms
Adult, Analysis of Variance, Brain, Brain Mapping, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Reaction Time, Thinking, Young Adult

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