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Zubarev I, Parkkonen L. Evidence for a general performance-monitoring system in the human brain. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:4322-4333. [PMID: 29974560 PMCID: PMC6220993 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Adaptive behavior relies on the ability of the brain to form predictions and monitor action outcomes. In the human brain, the same system is thought to monitor action outcomes regardless of whether the information originates from internal (e.g., proprioceptive) and external (e.g., visual) sensory channels. Neural signatures of processing motor errors and action outcomes communicated by external feedback have been studied extensively; however, the existence of such a general action‐monitoring system has not been tested directly. Here, we use concurrent EEG‐MEG measurements and a probabilistic learning task to demonstrate that event‐related responses measured by electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography display spatiotemporal patterns that allow an effective transfer of a multivariate statistical model discriminating the outcomes across the following conditions: (a) erroneous versus correct motor output, (b) negative versus positive feedback, (c) high‐ versus low‐surprise negative feedback, and (d) erroneous versus correct brain–computer‐interface output. We further show that these patterns originate from highly‐overlapping neural sources in the medial frontal and the medial parietal cortices. We conclude that information about action outcomes arriving from internal or external sensory channels converges to the same neural system in the human brain, that matches this information to the internal predictions.
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- Ivan Zubarev
- Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.,Aalto Neuroimaging, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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Metin B, Tas ZC, Çebi M, Büyükaslan A, Soysal A, Hatıloglu D, Tarhan N. Reward Processing Deficits During a Spatial Attention Task in Patients With ADHD: An fMRI Study. J Atten Disord 2018; 22:694-702. [PMID: 28423978 DOI: 10.1177/1087054717703188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to explore how cues signaling rewards and feedbacks about rewards are processed in ADHD. METHOD Inside the scanner, 16 healthy children and 19 children with ADHD completed a spatial attention paradigm where cues informed about the availability of reward and feedbacks were provided about the earned reward. RESULTS In ventral anterior thalamus (VA), the controls exhibited greater activation in response to reward-predicting cues, as compared with no-reward cues, whereby in the ADHD group, the reverse pattern was observed (nonreward > reward). For feedbacks; absence of rewards produced greater activation than presence in the left caudate and frontal eye field for the control group, whereas for the ADHD group, the reverse pattern was again observed (reward > nonreward). DISCUSSION The present findings indicate that ADHD is associated with difficulty integrating reward contingency information with the orienting and regulatory phases of attention.
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- 1 Uskudar University, Turkey.,4 NPIstanbul Brain Hospital, Turkey
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Damme KS, Young CB, Nusslock R. Elevated nucleus accumbens structural connectivity associated with proneness to hypomania: a reward hypersensitivity perspective. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2018; 12:928-936. [PMID: 28338785 PMCID: PMC5472153 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsx017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The Reward Hypersensitivity Model of bipolar disorder argues that hypersensitivity to reward-relevant cues characterizes risk for hypo/mania. This hypersensitivity leads to increased goal-directed motivation during reward-relevant life events that, in the extreme, is reflected in hypo/manic symptoms. In line with this perspective, individuals with bipolar disorder display elevated activation in a cortico-striatal reward circuit including the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC). To date, however, research on reward-related neural circuitry underlying bipolar symptoms focuses on syndromal bipolar disorder (bipolar I, bipolar II), and typically examines neural regions in isolation of each other. Accordingly, this study examines the relationship between subsyndromal hypo/mania proneness and structural connectivity between the NAcc and both the mOFC and amygdala in a medication-free sample. Fifty-four community participants completed diffusion-weighted imaging and a self-report measure of bipolar risk (hypo/mania proneness). As predicted, elevated structural connectivity between the NAcc and both the mOFC and amygdala were associated with elevated hypo/mania proneness. This relationship was specific to NAcc-centered reward connectivity, as there was no relationship between hypo/mania proneness and either whole-brain or cortico-amygdala connectivity. Results suggest that reward-relevant tractography from cortical (mOFC) and subcortical (amygdala) regions amplify NAcc-centered reward processing in bipolar risk.
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- Katherine S Damme
- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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Many researchers have used the standard Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) to assess decision-making in adolescence given increased risk-taking during this developmental period. Most studies are cross-sectional and do not observe behavioral trajectories over time, limiting interpretation. This longitudinal study investigated healthy adolescents' and young adults' IGT performance across a 10-year span. A total of 189 individuals (aged 9-23 at baseline) completed a baseline session and were followed at 2-year intervals yielding 5 time-points. IGT deck contingencies were shuffled over time to reduce practice effects. IGT performance (good minus bad decisions) was measured at each assessment point and separated into 3 metrics: overall performance (all blocks), decision-making under ambiguity (blocks 1 and 2), and decision-making under risk (blocks 3, 4, and 5). Covariates included estimated intelligence and affective dispositions as measured by the Behavioral Inhibition and Activation System (BIS/BAS) Scales. A linear effect of age yielded the best fit when comparing linear and quadratic effects of age on overall IGT performance. Age and intelligence positively predicted overall performance, whereas affective approach tendencies (BAS) negatively predicted overall performance. Practice effects were observed and controlled for. Models of ambiguity and risk metrics yielded different patterns of significant predictors. Age predicted better performance and affective approach tendencies predicted worse performance for both metrics. Intelligence was a significant predictor for risk, but not ambiguity. This longitudinal study extends prior work by showing age-related improvements in reward-based decision-making and associating those improvements with cognitive and affective variables. Implications of the results for adolescent development are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Brandon Almy
- Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware Street SE, Ste. 333, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware Street SE, Ste. 333, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Boehm I, King JA, Bernardoni F, Geisler D, Seidel M, Ritschel F, Goschke T, Haynes JD, Roessner V, Ehrlich S. Subliminal and supraliminal processing of reward-related stimuli in anorexia nervosa. Psychol Med 2018; 48:790-800. [PMID: 28832300 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291717002161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have highlighted the role of the brain reward and cognitive control systems in the etiology of anorexia nervosa (AN). In an attempt to disentangle the relative contribution of these systems to the disorder, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate hemodynamic responses to reward-related stimuli presented both subliminally and supraliminally in acutely underweight AN patients and age-matched healthy controls (HC). METHODS fMRI data were collected from a total of 35 AN patients and 35 HC, while they passively viewed subliminally and supraliminally presented streams of food, positive social, and neutral stimuli. Activation patterns of the group × stimulation condition × stimulus type interaction were interrogated to investigate potential group differences in processing different stimulus types under the two stimulation conditions. Moreover, changes in functional connectivity were investigated using generalized psychophysiological interaction analysis. RESULTS AN patients showed a generally increased response to supraliminally presented stimuli in the inferior frontal junction (IFJ), but no alterations within the reward system. Increased activation during supraliminal stimulation with food stimuli was observed in the AN group in visual regions including superior occipital gyrus and the fusiform gyrus/parahippocampal gyrus. No group difference was found with respect to the subliminal stimulation condition and functional connectivity. CONCLUSION Increased IFJ activation in AN during supraliminal stimulation may indicate hyperactive cognitive control, which resonates with clinical presentation of excessive self-control in AN patients. Increased activation to food stimuli in visual regions may be interpreted in light of an attentional food bias in AN.
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- I Boehm
- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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- Department of Psychology,Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Charité Universitäts-Medizin,Berlin,Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden,Dresden,Germany
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Howse AD, Hassall CD, Williams CC, Hajcak G, Krigolson OE. Alcohol hangover impacts learning and reward processing within the medial-frontal cortex. Psychophysiology 2018; 55:e13081. [PMID: 29600513 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2017] [Revised: 03/05/2018] [Accepted: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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It is common knowledge that alcohol intoxication impairs motor coordination, judgment, and decision making. Indeed, an abundance of literature links intoxication to impaired cognitive control that leads to accidents and injury. A broadening body of research, however, suggests that the impact of alcohol may continue beyond the point of intoxication and into the period of alcohol hangover. Here, we examined differences in the amplitude of reward positivity-a component of the human ERP associated with learning-between control and hangover participants. During performance of a learnable gambling task, we found a reduction in the reward positivity during alcohol hangover. Additionally, participants experiencing alcohol hangover demonstrated reduced performance in the experimental task in comparison to their nonhangover counterparts. Our results suggest that the neural systems that underlie performance monitoring and reward-based learning are impaired during alcohol hangover.
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- Ashley D Howse
- Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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- Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Yanes JA, Riedel MC, Ray KL, Kirkland AE, Bird RT, Boeving ER, Reid MA, Gonzalez R, Robinson JL, Laird AR, Sutherland MT. Neuroimaging meta-analysis of cannabis use studies reveals convergent functional alterations in brain regions supporting cognitive control and reward processing. J Psychopharmacol 2018; 32:283-295. [PMID: 29338547 PMCID: PMC5858977 DOI: 10.1177/0269881117744995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Lagging behind rapid changes to state laws, societal views, and medical practice is the scientific investigation of cannabis's impact on the human brain. While several brain imaging studies have contributed important insight into neurobiological alterations linked with cannabis use, our understanding remains limited. Here, we sought to delineate those brain regions that consistently demonstrate functional alterations among cannabis users versus non-users across neuroimaging studies using the activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis framework. In ancillary analyses, we characterized task-related brain networks that co-activate with cannabis-affected regions using data archived in a large neuroimaging repository, and then determined which psychological processes may be disrupted via functional decoding techniques. When considering convergent alterations among users, decreased activation was observed in the anterior cingulate cortex, which co-activated with frontal, parietal, and limbic areas and was linked with cognitive control processes. Similarly, decreased activation was observed in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which co-activated with frontal and occipital areas and linked with attention-related processes. Conversely, increased activation among users was observed in the striatum, which co-activated with frontal, parietal, and other limbic areas and linked with reward processing. These meta-analytic outcomes indicate that cannabis use is linked with differential, region-specific effects across the brain.
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- Julio A Yanes
- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Auburn University Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Advanced Alabama Imaging Consortium, Alabama, USA
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- Center for Imaging Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Imaging Research Center, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Auburn University Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Advanced Alabama Imaging Consortium, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Auburn University Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Advanced Alabama Imaging Consortium, Alabama, USA
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- Center for Imaging Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA,Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Auburn University Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Advanced Alabama Imaging Consortium, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Auburn University Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA,Advanced Alabama Imaging Consortium, Alabama, USA
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- Center for Imaging Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA,Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Center for Imaging Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA,Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Jin-Tao Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of General Psychology: Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
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Kirschner M, Hager OM, Muff L, Bischof M, Hartmann-Riemer MN, Kluge A, Habermeyer B, Seifritz E, Tobler PN, Kaiser S. Ventral Striatal Dysfunction and Symptom Expression in Individuals With Schizotypal Personality Traits and Early Psychosis. Schizophr Bull 2018; 44:147-157. [PMID: 27798223 PMCID: PMC5767950 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbw142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Striatal abnormalities play a crucial role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Growing evidence suggests an association between aberrant striatal activity during reward anticipation and symptom dimensions in schizophrenia. However, it is not clear whether this holds across the psychosis continuum. The aim of the present study was to investigate alterations of ventral striatal activation during reward anticipation and its relationship to symptom expression in persons with schizotypal personality traits (SPT) and first-episode psychosis. Twenty-six individuals with high SPT, 26 patients with non-affective first-episode psychosis (including 13 with brief psychotic disorder (FEP-BPD) and 13 with first-episode schizophrenia [FEP-SZ]) and 25 healthy controls underwent event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a variant of the Monetary Incentive Delay task. Ventral striatal activation was positively correlated with total symptom severity, in particular with levels of positive symptoms. This association was observed across the psychosis continuum and within each subgroup. Patients with FEP-SZ showed the strongest elevation of striatal activation during reward anticipation, although symptom levels did not differ between groups in the psychosis continuum. While our results provide evidence that variance in striatal activation is mainly explained by dimensional symptom expression, patients with schizophrenia show an additional dysregulation of striatal activation. Trans-diagnostic approaches are promising in order to disentangle dimensional and categorical neural mechanisms in the psychosis continuum.
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- Matthias Kirschner
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland; tel: +41-44-384-36-14, fax: +41-44-383-44-56, e-mail:
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Humans tend to reduce inequitable distributions. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that inequitable decisions are related to brain regions that associated with negative emotion and signaling conflict. In the highly complex human social environment, our opinions and behaviors can be affected by social information. In current study, we used a modified dictator game to investigate the effect of social influence on making an equitable decision. We found that the choices of participants in present task was influenced by the choices of peers. However, participants' decisions were influenced by equitable rather than inequitable group choices. fMRI results showed that brain regions that related to norm violation and social conflict were related to the inequitable social influence. The neural responses in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, rostral cingulate zone, and insula predicted subsequent conforming behavior in individuals. Additionally, psychophysiological interaction analysis revealed that the interconnectivity between the dorsal striatum and insula was elevated in advantageous inequity influence versus no-social influence conditions. We found decreased functional connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex and insula, supplementary motor area, posterior cingulate gyrus and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in the disadvantageous inequity influence versus no-social influence conditions. This suggests that a disadvantageous inequity influence may decrease the functional connectivity among brain regions that are related to reward processes. Thus, the neural mechanisms underlying social influence in an equitable decision may be similar to those implicated in social norms and reward processing.
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- Zhenyu Wei
- Center for Studies of Education and Psychology of Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality – Ministry of Education, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Ethridge P, Kujawa A, Dirks MA, Arfer KB, Kessel EM, Klein DN, Weinberg A. Neural responses to social and monetary reward in early adolescence and emerging adulthood. Psychophysiology 2017; 54:1786-1799. [PMID: 28700084 PMCID: PMC5757310 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Revised: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Reward processing is often considered to be a monolithic construct, with different incentive types eliciting equivalent neural and behavioral responses. The majority of the literature on reward processing has used monetary incentives to elicit reward-related activity, yet social incentives may be particularly important due to their powerful ability to shape behavior. Findings from studies comparing social and monetary rewards have identified both overlapping and distinct responses. In order to explore whether reward processing is domain general or category specific (i.e., the same or different across reward types), the present study recorded ERPs from early adolescents (ages 12-13) and emerging adults (ages 18-25) while they completed social and monetary reward tasks. Temporospatial principal components analysis revealed morphologically similar reward positivities (RewPs) in the social and monetary reward tasks in each age group. In early adolescents, no significant difference was found between the magnitude of the RewP to social and monetary rewards. In emerging adults, however, the RewP to monetary rewards was significantly larger than the RewP to social rewards. Additionally, responses to feedback between the two tasks were not significantly correlated in either age group. These results suggest that both domain-general and category-specific processes underlie neural responses to rewards and that the relative incentive value of different types of rewards may change across development. Findings from this study have important implications for understanding the role that neural response to rewards plays in the development of psychopathology during adolescence.
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Boecker-Schlier R, Holz NE, Hohm E, Zohsel K, Blomeyer D, Buchmann AF, Baumeister S, Wolf I, Esser G, Schmidt MH, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Banaschewski T, Brandeis D, Laucht M. Association between pubertal stage at first drink and neural reward processing in early adulthood. Addict Biol 2017; 22:1402-1415. [PMID: 27345375 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2015] [Revised: 04/20/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Puberty is a critical time period during human development. It is characterized by high levels of risk-taking behavior, such as increased alcohol consumption, and is accompanied by various neurobiological changes. Recent studies in animals and humans have revealed that the pubertal stage at first drink (PSFD) significantly impacts drinking behavior in adulthood. Moreover, neuronal alterations of the dopaminergic reward system have been associated with alcohol abuse or addiction. This study aimed to clarify the impact of PSFD on neuronal characteristics of reward processing linked to alcohol-related problems. One hundred sixty-eight healthy young adults from a prospective study covering 25 years participated in a monetary incentive delay task measured with simultaneous EEG-fMRI. PSFD was determined according to the age at menarche or Tanner stage of pubertal development, respectively. Alcohol-related problems in early adulthood were assessed with the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT). During reward anticipation, decreased fMRI activation of the frontal cortex and increased preparatory EEG activity (contingent negative variation) occurred with pubertal compared to postpubertal first alcohol intake. Moreover, alcohol-related problems during early adulthood were increased in pubertal compared to postpubertal beginners, which was mediated by neuronal activation of the right medial frontal gyrus. At reward delivery, increased fMRI activation of the left caudate and higher feedback-related EEG negativity were detected in pubertal compared to postpubertal beginners. Together with animal findings, these results implicate PSFD as a potential modulator of psychopathology, involving altered reward anticipation. Both PSFD timing and reward processing might thus be potential targets for early prevention and intervention.
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- Regina Boecker-Schlier
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
- Department Neuroimaging, Central Institute of Mental Health; Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Psychology; University of Potsdam; Potsdam Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
- Center for Integrative Human Physiology; University of Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
- Neuroscience Center Zurich; University of Zurich and ETH Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
- Department of Psychology; University of Potsdam; Potsdam Germany
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Zhu X, Helpman L, Papini S, Schneier F, Markowitz JC, Van Meter PE, Lindquist MA, Wager TD, Neria Y. Altered resting state functional connectivity of fear and reward circuitry in comorbid PTSD and major depression. Depress Anxiety 2017; 34:641-650. [PMID: 28030757 PMCID: PMC5667358 DOI: 10.1002/da.22594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Individuals with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder (PTSD-MDD) often exhibit greater functional impairment and poorer treatment response than individuals with PTSD alone. Research has not determined whether PTSD-MDD is associated with different network connectivity abnormalities than PTSD alone. METHODS We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure resting state functional connectivity (rs-FC) patterns of brain regions involved in fear and reward processing in three groups: patients with PTSD-alone (n = 27), PTSD-MDD (n = 21), and trauma-exposed healthy controls (TEHCs, n = 34). Based on previous research, seeds included basolateral amygdala (BLA), centromedial amygdala (CMA), and nucleus accumbens (NAcc). RESULTS Regardless of MDD comorbidity, PTSD was associated with decreased connectivity of BLA-orbitalfrontal cortex (OFC) and CMA-thalamus pathways, key to fear processing, and fear expression, respectively. PTSD-MDD, compared to PTSD-alone and TEHC, was associated with decreased connectivity across multiple amygdala and striatal-subcortical pathways: BLA-OFC, NAcc-thalamus, and NAcc-hippocampus. Further, while both the BLA-OFC and the NAcc-thalamus pathways were correlated with MDD symptoms, PTSD symptoms correlated with the amygdala pathways (BLA-OFC; CMA-thalamus) only. CONCLUSIONS Comorbid PTSD-MDD may be associated with multifaceted functional connectivity alterations in both fear and reward systems. Clinical implications are discussed.
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- Xi Zhu
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Institute for Mental Health Research, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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von Rhein D, Beckmann CF, Franke B, Oosterlaan J, Heslenfeld DJ, Hoekstra PJ, Hartman CA, Luman M, Faraone SV, Cools R, Buitelaar JK, Mennes M. Network-level assessment of reward-related activation in patients with ADHD and healthy individuals. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 38:2359-2369. [PMID: 28176434 PMCID: PMC6584954 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Revised: 01/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Reward processing is a key aspect of cognitive control processes, putatively instantiated by mesolimbic and mesocortical brain circuits. Deficient signaling within these circuits has been associated with psychopathology. We applied a network discovery approach to assess specific functional networks associated with reward processing in participants with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). METHODS To describe task-related processes in terms of integrated functional networks, we applied independent component analysis (ICA) to task response maps of 60 healthy participants who performed a monetary incentive delay (MID) task. The resulting components were interpreted on the basis of their similarity with group-level task responses as well as their similarity with brain networks derived from resting state fMRI analyses. ADHD-related effects on network characteristics including functional connectivity and communication between networks were examined in an independent sample comprising 150 participants with ADHD and 48 healthy controls. RESULTS We identified 23 components to be associated with 4 large-scale functional networks: the default-mode, visual, executive control, and salience networks. The salience network showed a specific association with reward processing as well as the highest degree of within-network integration. ADHD was associated with decreased functional connectivity between the salience and executive control networks as well as with peripheral brain regions. CONCLUSIONS Reward processing as measured with the MID task involves one reward-specific and three general functional networks. Participants with ADHD exhibited alterations in connectivity of both the salience and executive control networks and associated brain regions during task performance. Hum Brain Mapp 38:2359-2369, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Daniel von Rhein
- Department of Cognitive NeuroscienceRadboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud UniversityNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive NeuroscienceRadboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud UniversityNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Centre for Functional MRI of the BrainUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Department of PsychiatryRadboud University Medical CenterNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Department of Human GeneticsRadboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Section of Clinical NeuropsychologyVU University AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Section of Clinical NeuropsychologyVU University AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity Medical CenterGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Section of Clinical NeuropsychologyVU University AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Departments of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience and PhysiologySUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySyracuseNew York
- K.G. Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of BergenBergenNorway
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- Department of Cognitive NeuroscienceRadboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud UniversityNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive NeuroscienceRadboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University CentreNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud UniversityNijmegenThe Netherlands
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van Noordt S, Wu J, Venkataraman A, Larson MJ, South M, Crowley MJ. Inter-trial Coherence of Medial Frontal Theta Oscillations Linked to Differential Feedback Processing in Youth and Young Adults with Autism. Res Autism Spectr Disord 2017; 37:1-10. [PMID: 28983326 PMCID: PMC5624320 DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2017.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Impairment in prediction and appreciation for choice outcomes could contribute to several core symptoms of ASD. We examined electroencephalography (EEG) oscillations in 27 youth and young adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 22 IQ-matched neurotypical controls while they performed a chance-based reward prediction task. METHOD We re-analyzed our previously published ERP data (Larson et al., 2011) and examined theta band oscillations (4-8 Hz) at frontal midline sites, within a timing window that overlaps with the feedback-related negativity (FRN). We focused on event-related changes after presentation of feedback for reward (WIN) and punitive (LOSE) outcomes, both for spectral power and inter-trial phase coherence. RESULTS In our reward prediction task, for both groups, medial frontal theta power and phase coherence were greater following LOSE compared to WIN feedback. However, compared to controls, inter-trial coherence of medial frontal theta was significantly lower overall (across both feedback types) for individuals with ASD. Our results indicate that while individuals with ASD are sensitive to the valence of reward feedback, comparable to their neurotypical peers, they have reduced synchronization of medial frontal theta activity during feedback processing. CONCLUSIONS This finding are consistent with previous studies showing neural variability in ASD and suggest that the processes underlying decision-making and reinforcement learning may be atypical and less efficient in ASD.
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- Stefon van Noordt
- Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine 230 South Frontage Rd., New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine 230 South Frontage Rd., New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University 3400 N Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602, USA
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- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine 230 South Frontage Rd., New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Becker A, Kirsch M, Gerchen MF, Kiefer F, Kirsch P. Striatal activation and frontostriatal connectivity during non-drug reward anticipation in alcohol dependence. Addict Biol 2017; 22:833-843. [PMID: 28398011 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2015] [Revised: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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According to prevailing neurobiological theories of addiction, altered function in neural reward circuitry is a central mechanism of alcohol dependence. Growing evidence postulates that the ventral striatum (VS), as well as areas of the prefrontal cortex, contribute to the increased incentive salience of alcohol-associated cues, diminished motivation to pursue non-drug rewards and weakened strength of inhibitory cognitive control, which are central to addiction. The present study aims to investigate the neural response and functional connectivity underlying monetary, non-drug reward processing in alcohol dependence. We utilized a reward paradigm to investigate the anticipation of monetary reward in 32 alcohol-dependent inpatients and 35 healthy controls. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure task-related brain activation and connectivity. Alcohol-dependent patients showed increased activation of the VS during anticipation of monetary gain compared with healthy controls. Generalized psychophysiological interaction analyses revealed decreased functional connectivity between the VS and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in alcohol dependent patients relative to controls. Increased activation of the VS and reduced frontostriatal connectivity were associated with increased craving. These findings provide evidence that alcohol dependence is rather associated with disrupted integration of striatal and prefrontal processes than with a global reward anticipation deficit.
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- Alena Becker
- Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim; Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Addiction Behavior and Addiction Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim; Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim; Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Addiction Behavior and Addiction Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim; Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim; Heidelberg University; Mannheim Germany
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In neuroeconomics, valuation refers to the process of assigning values to states and actions on the basis of the animal's current representation of the environment, while reward processing corresponds to processing the feedback received from the environment to update the values of states and actions. In this article, we review the brain circuits associated with valuation and reward processing and argue that these are fundamental processes critical to many cognitive functions. Specifically, we focus on the role of valuation and reward processing in attention, memory, decision making, and learning. Next, the extant neuroimaging literature on a number of psychiatric disorders is reviewed (i.e., addiction, pathological gambling, schizophrenia, and mood disorders), and an argument is made that associated deficits in cognitive functions can be explained in terms of abnormal valuation and reward processing. The review concludes with the impact of this framework in clinical settings and prescriptions for future research, in particular with regard to the conversions of qualitatively different valuation systems into a system of common currency.
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- Sébastien Hélie
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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Starr LR, Hershenberg R. Depressive Symptoms and the Anticipation and Experience of Uplifting Events in Everyday Life. J Clin Psychol 2017; 73:1442-1461. [PMID: 28301046 DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2016] [Revised: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 12/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Despite proliferation of laboratory-based studies examining reward functioning in depression, few studies have examined these processes in everyday life. We addressed this shortcoming by exploring experience and anticipation of uplifting experiences under ecologically valid conditions METHOD: One hundred fifty-seven young adults, oversampled for depressive symptoms, completed a 14-day diary tracking mood in relation to recent and anticipated positive events RESULTS: Consistent with studies supporting "mood-brightening" effects in depression, participants with greater baseline dysphoria showed stronger associations between elevated daily uplifts and lower daily depressive symptoms, particularly when events were interpersonal in nature. Baseline dysphoria was associated with lower daily anticipation of positive next-day experiences; however, when dysphoric individuals did anticipate positive experiences, they experienced greater reductions in depressed mood CONCLUSION: Results suggest that despite reward processing deficits found in laboratory studies, dysphoric individuals show improvements in mood in conjunction with anticipation and consumption of uplifting events in daily life.
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- Emory University.,Philadelphia VA Medical Center.,University of Pennsylvania
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van Hulst BM, de Zeeuw P, Bos DJ, Rijks Y, Neggers SFW, Durston S. Children with ADHD symptoms show decreased activity in ventral striatum during the anticipation of reward, irrespective of ADHD diagnosis. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2017; 58:206-214. [PMID: 27678006 DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/15/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Changes in reward processing are thought to be involved in the etiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as other developmental disorders. In addition, different forms of therapy for ADHD rely on reinforcement principles. As such, improved understanding of reward processing in ADHD could eventually lead to more effective treatment options. However, differences in reward processing may not be specific to ADHD, but may be a trans-diagnostic feature of disorders that involve ADHD-like symptoms. METHODS In this event-related fMRI study, we used a child-friendly version of the monetary incentive delay task to assess performance and brain activity during reward anticipation. Also, we collected questionnaire data to assess reward sensitivity in daily life. For final analyses, data were available for 27 typically developing children, 24 children with ADHD, and 25 children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and ADHD symptoms. RESULTS We found decreased activity in ventral striatum during anticipation of reward in children with ADHD symptoms, both for children with ADHD as their primary diagnosis and in children with autism spectrum disorder and ADHD symptoms. We found that higher parent-rated sensitivity to reward was associated with greater anticipatory activity in ventral striatum for children with ADHD symptoms. In contrast, there was no relationship between the degree of ADHD symptoms and activity in ventral striatum. CONCLUSIONS We provide evidence of biological and behavioral differences in reward sensitivity in children with ADHD symptoms, regardless of their primary diagnosis. Ultimately, a dimensional brain-behavior model of reward sensitivity in children with symptoms of ADHD may be useful to refine treatment options dependent on reward processing.
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- Branko M van Hulst
- NICHE Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NICHE Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NICHE Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NICHE Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NICHE Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NICHE Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Taylor AMW, Cahill CM. Editorial: Modulation of Reward Circuitry by Pain and Stress. Front Psychiatry 2017; 8:296. [PMID: 29312022 PMCID: PMC5743663 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Anna M W Taylor
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Dorton HM, Luo S, Monterosso JR, Page KA. Influences of Dietary Added Sugar Consumption on Striatal Food-Cue Reactivity and Postprandial GLP-1 Response. Front Psychiatry 2017; 8:297. [PMID: 29403396 PMCID: PMC5777392 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Sugar consumption in the United States exceeds recommendations from the American Heart Association. Overconsumption of sugar is linked to risk for obesity and metabolic disease. Animal studies suggest that high-sugar diets alter functions in brain regions associated with reward processing, including the dorsal and ventral striatum. Human neuroimaging studies have shown that these regions are responsive to food cues, and that the gut-derived satiety hormones, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and peptide YY (PYY), suppress striatal food-cue responsivity. We aimed to determine the associations between dietary added sugar intake, striatal responsivity to food cues, and postprandial GLP-1 and PYY levels. Twenty-two lean volunteers underwent a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan during which they viewed pictures of food and non-food items after a 12-h fast. Before scanning, participants consumed a glucose drink. A subset of 19 participants underwent an additional fMRI session in which they consumed water as a control condition. Blood was sampled for GLP-1, and PYY levels and hunger ratings were assessed before and ~75 min after drink consumption. In-person 24-h dietary recalls were collected from each participant on three to six separate occasions over a 2-month period. Average percent calories from added sugar were calculated using information from 24-h dietary recalls. A region-of-interest analysis was performed to compare the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response to food vs. non-food cues in the bilateral dorsal striatum (caudate/putamen) and ventral striatum (nucleus accumbens). The relationships between added sugar, striatal responses, and hormone changes after drink consumption were assessed using Spearman's correlations. We observed a positive correlation between added sugar intake and BOLD response to food cues in the dorsal striatum and a similar trend in the nucleus accumbens after glucose, but not water, consumption. Added sugar intake was negatively associated with GLP-1 response to glucose. Post hoc analysis revealed a negative correlation between GLP-1 response to glucose and BOLD response to food cues in the dorsal striatum. Our findings suggest that habitual added sugar intake is related to increased striatal response to food cues and decreased GLP-1 release following glucose intake, which could contribute to susceptibility to overeating.
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- Hilary M Dorton
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Humans are capable of detecting and exploiting a variety of environmental regularities, including stimulus-stimulus contingencies (e.g., visual statistical learning) and stimulus-reward contingencies. However, the relationship between these two types of learning is poorly understood. In two experiments, we sought evidence that the occurrence of rewarding events enhances or impairs visual statistical learning. Across all of our attempts to find such evidence, we employed a training stage during which we grouped shapes into triplets and presented triplets one shape at a time in an undifferentiated stream. Participants subsequently performed a surprise recognition task in which they were tested on their knowledge of the underlying structure of the triplets. Unbeknownst to participants, triplets were also assigned no-, low-, or high-reward status. In Experiments 1A and 1B, participants viewed shape streams while low and high rewards were “randomly” given, presented as low- and high-pitched tones played through headphones. Rewards were always given on the third shape of a triplet (Experiment 1A) or the first shape of a triplet (Experiment 1B), and high- and low-reward sounds were always consistently paired with the same triplets. Experiment 2 was similar to Experiment 1, except that participants were required to learn value associations of a subset of shapes before viewing the shape stream. Across all experiments, we observed significant visual statistical learning effects, but the strength of learning did not differ amongst no-, low-, or high-reward conditions for any of the experiments. Thus, our experiments failed to find any influence of rewards on statistical learning, implying that visual statistical learning may be unaffected by the occurrence of reward. The system that detects basic stimulus-stimulus regularities may operate independently of the system that detects reward contingencies.
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- Leeland L Rogers
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark DE, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark DE, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark DE, USA
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King JA, Geisler D, Bernardoni F, Ritschel F, Böhm I, Seidel M, Mennigen E, Ripke S, Smolka MN, Roessner V, Ehrlich S. Altered Neural Efficiency of Decision Making During Temporal Reward Discounting in Anorexia Nervosa. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2016; 55:972-979. [PMID: 27806865 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2016.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2016] [Revised: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The ability of individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) to resist hunger and restrict caloric intake is often believed to reflect an unusual amount of self-control. However, the underlying neural substrate is poorly understood, especially in adolescent patients. METHOD Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used during an intertemporal choice task to probe the hemodynamic correlates of a common measurement of self-control-delayed (monetary) reward discounting-in a sample of acutely ill, predominately adolescent female patients with AN (n = 31) and age-matched healthy controls (n = 31). RESULTS Delayed discounting rates did not differ between the groups, but decision making was consistently faster in the AN group. Although no group differences in the neural correlates of reward valuation were evident, activation associated with decision making was decreased in the AN group, most notably in the lateral prefrontal and posterior parietal regions implicated in executive control. Follow-up analysis of difficult decisions showed decreased activation in the AN group in a region of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. CONCLUSION Decreased activation in frontoparietal regions involved in decision making, but faster and more consistent choice behavior, suggests that the altered efficiency of neural resource allocation might underlie an increased level of self-control in AN. This pattern of neural activation and behavior might reflect an ingrained "habit" to sustain high-level proactive (anticipatory) cognitive control in AN, which in turn might compromise reactive control mechanisms needed to adapt to changing cognitive demands, such as when difficult decisions must be made.
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- Joseph A King
- Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center, TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany
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- Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center, TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany
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- Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center, TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany
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- Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center, TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany
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- Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center, TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany
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- Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center, TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany
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- Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center, TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany
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- Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center, TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany.
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Chan RCK, Kringelbach ML. Editorial: At Risk for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: An Affective Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Spectrum. Front Behav Neurosci 2016; 10:165. [PMID: 27625597 PMCID: PMC5003835 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 08/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Raymond C K Chan
- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of OxfordOxford, UK; Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus UniversityAarhus, Denmark
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Gardiner CK, Karoly HC, Bryan AD. Commentary: Differential associations between obesity and behavioral measures of impulsivity. Front Psychol 2016; 7:949. [PMID: 27444563 PMCID: PMC4914830 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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- Casey K Gardiner
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO, USA
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Duprat R, De Raedt R, Wu GR, Baeken C. Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation Increases Reward Responsiveness in Individuals with Higher Hedonic Capacity. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:294. [PMID: 27378888 PMCID: PMC4910023 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2016] [Accepted: 06/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been documented to influence striatal and orbitofrontal dopaminergic activity implicated in reward processing. However, the exact neuropsychological mechanisms of how DLPFC stimulation may affect the reward system and how trait hedonic capacity may interact with the effects remains to be elucidated. Objective: In this sham-controlled study in healthy individuals, we investigated the effects of a single session of neuronavigated intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) on reward responsiveness, as well as the influence of trait hedonic capacity. Methods: We used a randomized crossover single session iTBS design with an interval of 1 week. We assessed reward responsiveness using a rewarded probabilistic learning task and measured individual trait hedonic capacity (the ability to experience pleasure) with the temporal experience of pleasure scale questionnaire. Results: As expected, the participants developed a response bias toward the most rewarded stimulus (rich stimulus). Reaction time and accuracy for the rich stimulus were respectively shorter and higher as compared to the less rewarded stimulus (lean stimulus). Active or sham stimulation did not seem to influence the outcome. However, when taking into account individual trait hedonic capacity, we found an early significant increase in the response bias only after active iTBS. The higher the individual's trait hedonic capacity, the more the response bias toward the rich stimulus increased after the active stimulation. Conclusion: When taking into account trait hedonic capacity, one active iTBS session over the left DLPFC improved reward responsiveness in healthy male participants with higher hedonic capacity. This suggests that individual differences in hedonic capacity may influence the effects of iTBS on the reward system.
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- Romain Duprat
- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium; Department of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry Lab, University of GhentGhent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium; Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium; Department of Psychiatry, University HospitalBrussels, Belgium
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Blunted reward response appears to be a trait-like marker of vulnerability for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). As such, it should be present in remitted individuals; however, depression is a heterogeneous syndrome. Reward-related impairments may be more pronounced in individuals with melancholic depression. The present study examined neural responses to rewards in remitted melancholic depression (rMD; N = 29), remitted non-melancholic depression (rNMD; N = 56), and healthy controls (HC; N = 81). Event-related potentials to monetary gain and loss were recorded during a simple gambling paradigm. rMD was characterized by a blunted response to rewards relative to both the HC and the rNMD groups, who did not differ from one another. Moreover, the rMD and rNMD groups did not differ in course or severity of their past illnesses, or current depressive symptoms or functioning. Results suggest that blunted response to rewards may be a viable vulnerability marker for melancholic depression.
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Simon JJ, Skunde M, Walther S, Bendszus M, Herzog W, Friederich HC. Neural signature of food reward processing in bulimic-type eating disorders. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016; 11:1393-401. [PMID: 27056455 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/31/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Clinical observations and similarities to addiction suggest heightened reward sensitivity to food in patients with bulimic-type eating (BTE) disorders. Therefore, we investigated the expectation and receipt of food reward compared with monetary reward in patients with BTE. Fifty-six patients with BTE (27 patients with binge eating disorder and 29 with bulimia nervosa) and 55 matched healthy control participants underwent event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing both food and monetary incentive delay tasks. BTE patients exhibited reduced brain activation in the posterior cingulate cortex during the expectation of food and increased activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, anterior medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex during the receipt of food reward. These findings were relevant to food because we found no significant group differences related to monetary reward. In the patients, higher brain activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex during the receipt of food reward was related to higher levels of trait food craving and external eating. BTE patients exhibited increased hedonic processing during the receipt of food reward. These findings corroborate the notion that an altered responsiveness of the reward network to food stimuli is associated with BTE.
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- Joe J Simon
- Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Department of General Adult Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Demurie E, Roeyers H, Wiersema JR, Sonuga-Barke E. No Evidence for Inhibitory Deficits or Altered Reward Processing in ADHD: Data From a New Integrated Monetary Incentive Delay Go/No-Go Task. J Atten Disord 2016; 20:353-67. [PMID: 23382578 DOI: 10.1177/1087054712473179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Cognitive and motivational factors differentially affect individuals with mental health problems such as ADHD. Here we introduce a new task to disentangle the relative contribution of inhibitory control and reward anticipation on task performance in children with ADHD and/or autism spectrum disorders (ASD). METHOD Typically developing children, children with ADHD, ASD, or both disorders worked during separate sessions for monetary or social rewards in go/no-go tasks with varying inhibitory load levels. Participants also completed a monetary temporal discounting (TD) task. RESULTS As predicted, task performance was sensitive to both the effects of anticipated reward amount and inhibitory load. Reward amount had different effects depending on inhibitory load level. TD correlated with inhibitory control in the ADHD group. CONCLUSION The integration of the monetary incentive delay and go/no-go paradigms was successful. Surprisingly, there was no evidence of inhibitory control deficits or altered reward anticipation in the clinical groups.
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OBJECTIVES Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that produces a bias toward risky, reward-driven decisions in situations where the outcomes of decisions are uncertain and must be discovered. However, it is unclear whether HD patients show similar biases in decision-making when learning demands are minimized and prospective risks and outcomes are known explicitly. We investigated how risk decision-making strategies and adjustments are altered in HD patients when reward contingencies are explicit. METHODS HD (N=18) and healthy control (HC; N=17) participants completed a risk-taking task in which they made a series of independent choices between a low-risk/low reward and high-risk/high reward risk options. RESULTS Computational modeling showed that compared to HC, who showed a clear preference for low-risk compared to high-risk decisions, the HD group valued high-risks more than low-risk decisions, especially when high-risks were rewarded. The strategy analysis indicated that when high-risk options were rewarded, HC adopted a conservative risk strategy on the next trial by preferring the low-risk option (i.e., they counted their blessings and then played the surer bet). In contrast, following a rewarded high-risk choice, HD patients showed a clear preference for repeating the high-risk choice. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate a pattern of high-risk/high-reward decision bias in HD that persists when outcomes and risks are certain. The allure of high-risk/high-reward decisions in situations of risk certainty and uncertainty expands our insight into the dynamic decision-making deficits that create considerable clinical burden in HD.
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Amsterdam Brain & Cognition (ABC), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee
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Li Q, Nan W, Taxer J, Dai W, Zheng Y, Liu X. Problematic Internet Users Show Impaired Inhibitory Control and Risk Taking with Losses: Evidence from Stop Signal and Mixed Gambles Tasks. Front Psychol 2016; 7:370. [PMID: 27014170 PMCID: PMC4794503 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Accepted: 02/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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According to the balance model of self-regulation, dysfunction of the inhibitory control and reward processing might be a behavioral marker for addiction and problematic behaviors. Although several studies have separately examined the inhibitory control or reward processing of individuals exhibiting problematic Internet use (PIU), no study has explored these two functions simultaneously to examine the potential imbalance of these functions. This study aimed to investigate whether the self-regulatory failure of PIU individuals results from deficits in both inhibitory control [indexed with the stop signal reaction time (SSRT) in a stop signal task] and risk taking with losses (measured as the acceptance rates of risky gables or the ratio of win/loss in a mixed gambles task). The results revealed that PIU individuals, compared with controls, showed decreased SSRT and increased error rates as well as reduced risk taking with losses. Correlational analyses revealed a significant positive relationship between the SSRT and risk taking with losses. These findings suggest that both the inhibitory control and reward functions are impaired in PIU individuals and reveal an association between these two systems. These results strengthen the balance model of self-regulation theory's argument that deficits in inhibitory control and risk taking with losses may assist in identifying risk markers for early diagnosis, progression, and prediction of PIU.
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- Qi Li
- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, Dalian Medical University Dalian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
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Reinforcement learning deficits have been associated with schizophrenia (SZ). However, the pathophysiology that gives rise to these abnormalities remains unclear. To address this question, SZ patients (N = 58) and controls (CN; N = 36) completed a probabilistic reversal-learning paradigm during functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning. During the task, participants choose between 2 stimuli. Initially, 1 stimulus was frequently rewarded (80%); the other was infrequently rewarded (20%). The reward contingencies reversed periodically because the participant learned the more rewarded stimulus. The results indicated that SZ patients achieved fewer reversals than CN, and demonstrated decreased winstay-loseshift decision-making behavior. On loseshift compared to winstay trials, SZ patients showed reduced Blood Oxygen Level Dependent activation compared to CN in a network of brain regions widely associated with cognitive control, and striatal regions. Importantly, relationships between group membership and behavior were mediated by alterations in the activity of cognitive control regions, but not striatum. These findings indicate an important role for the cognitive control network in mediating the use and updating of value representations in SZ. Such results provide biological targets for further inquiry because researchers attempt to better characterize decision-making neural circuitry in SZ as a means to discover new pathways for interventions.
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- Adam J Culbreth
- Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO;
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore MD
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- Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Department of Psychiatry & Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO
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BACKGROUND Adolescence represents a period of development during which critical biological, as well as social and cognitive, changes occur that are necessary for the transition into adulthood. A number of researchers have suggested that the pattern of normative brain changes that occurs during this period not only predisposes adolescents to engage in risk behaviours, such as experimentation with drugs, but that they additionally make the adolescent brain more vulnerable to the direct pharmacological impact of substances of abuse. The neural circuits that we examine in this review involve cortico-basal-ganglia/limbic networks implicated in the processing of rewards, emotion regulation, and the control of behaviour, emotion and cognition. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS We identify certain neurocognitive and personality/comorbidity-based risk factors for the onset of substance misuse during adolescence, and summarise the evidence suggesting that these risk factors may be further impacted by the direct effect of drugs on the underlying neural circuits implicated in substance misuse vulnerability.
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- Patricia J Conrod
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.,Centre de recherche CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Canada.,Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London, London, UK.,Addiction Development and Psychopathology (ADAPT) Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Moeller SJ, Couto L, Cohen V, Lalazar Y, Makotkine I, Williams N, Yehuda R, Goldstein RZ, Geer EB. Glucocorticoid Regulation of Food-Choice Behavior in Humans: Evidence from Cushing's Syndrome. Front Neurosci 2016; 10:21. [PMID: 26903790 PMCID: PMC4742561 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2015] [Accepted: 01/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The mechanisms by which glucocorticoids regulate food intake and resulting body mass in humans are not well-understood. One potential mechanism could involve modulation of reward processing, but human stress models examining effects of glucocorticoids on behavior contain important confounds. Here, we studied individuals with Cushing's syndrome, a rare endocrine disorder characterized by chronic excess endogenous glucocorticoids. Twenty-three patients with Cushing's syndrome (13 with active disease; 10 with disease in remission) and 15 controls with a comparably high body mass index (BMI) completed two simulated food-choice tasks (one with “explicit” task contingencies and one with “probabilistic” task contingencies), during which they indicated their objective preference for viewing high calorie food images vs. standardized pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral images. All participants also completed measures of food craving, and approximately half of the participants provided 24-h urine samples for assessment of cortisol and cortisone concentrations. Results showed that on the explicit task (but not the probabilistic task), participants with active Cushing's syndrome made fewer food-related choices than participants with Cushing's syndrome in remission, who in turn made fewer food-related choices than overweight controls. Corroborating this group effect, higher urine cortisone was negatively correlated with food-related choice in the subsample of all participants for whom these data were available. On the probabilistic task, despite a lack of group differences, higher food-related choice correlated with higher state and trait food craving in active Cushing's patients. Taken together, relative to overweight controls, Cushing's patients, particularly those with active disease, displayed a reduced vigor of responding for food rewards that was presumably attributable to glucocorticoid abnormalities. Beyond Cushing's, these results may have relevance for elucidating glucocorticoid contributions to food-seeking behavior, enhancing mechanistic understanding of weight fluctuations associated with oral glucocorticoid therapy and/or chronic stress, and informing the neurobiology of neuropsychiatric conditions marked by abnormal cortisol dynamics (e.g., major depression, Alzheimer's disease).
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- Scott J Moeller
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY, USA
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Schneider M, Kasanetz F, Lynch DL, Friemel CM, Lassalle O, Hurst DP, Steindel F, Monory K, Schäfer C, Miederer I, Leweke FM, Schreckenberger M, Lutz B, Reggio PH, Manzoni OJ, Spanagel R. Enhanced Functional Activity of the Cannabinoid Type-1 Receptor Mediates Adolescent Behavior. J Neurosci 2015; 35:13975-88. [PMID: 26468198 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1937-15.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Adolescence is characterized by drastic behavioral adaptations and comprises a particularly vulnerable period for the emergence of various psychiatric disorders. Growing evidence reveals that the pathophysiology of these disorders might derive from aberrations of normal neurodevelopmental changes in the adolescent brain. Understanding the molecular underpinnings of adolescent behavior is therefore critical for understanding the origin of psychopathology, but the molecular mechanisms that trigger adolescent behavior are unknown. Here, we hypothesize that the cannabinoid type-1 receptor (CB1R) may play a critical role in mediating adolescent behavior because enhanced endocannabinoid (eCB) signaling has been suggested to occur transiently during adolescence. To study enhanced CB1R signaling, we introduced a missense mutation (F238L) into the rat Cnr1 gene that encodes for the CB1R. According to our hypothesis, rats with the F238L mutation (Cnr1(F238L)) should sustain features of adolescent behavior into adulthood. Gain of function of the mutated receptor was demonstrated by in silico modeling and was verified functionally in a series of biochemical and electrophysiological experiments. Mutant rats exhibit an adolescent-like phenotype during adulthood compared with wild-type littermates, with typical high risk/novelty seeking, increased peer interaction, enhanced impulsivity, and augmented reward sensitivity for drug and nondrug reward. Partial inhibition of CB1R activity in Cnr1(F238L) mutant rats normalized behavior and led to a wild-type phenotype. We conclude that the activity state and functionality of the CB1R is critical for mediating adolescent behavior. These findings implicate the eCB system as an important research target for the neuropathology of adolescent-onset mental health disorders. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT We present the first rodent model with a gain-of-function mutation in the cannabinoid type-1 receptor (CB1R). Adult mutant rats exhibit an adolescent-like phenotype with typical high risk seeking, impulsivity, and augmented drug and nondrug reward sensitivity. Adolescence is a critical period for suboptimal behavioral choices and the emergence of neuropsychiatric disorders. Understanding the basis of these disorders therefore requires a comprehensive knowledge of how adolescent neurodevelopment triggers behavioral reactions. Our behavioral observations in adult mutant rats, together with reports on enhanced adolescent CB1R signaling, suggest a pivotal role for the CB1R in an adolescent brain as an important molecular mediator of adolescent behavior. These findings implicate the endocannabinoid system as a notable research target for adolescent-onset mental health disorders.
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Harlé KM, Zhang S, Schiff M, Mackey S, Paulus MP, Yu AJ. Altered Statistical Learning and Decision-Making in Methamphetamine Dependence: Evidence from a Two-Armed Bandit Task. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1910. [PMID: 26733906 PMCID: PMC4683191 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2015] [Accepted: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Understanding how humans weigh long-term and short-term goals is important for both basic cognitive science and clinical neuroscience, as substance users need to balance the appeal of an immediate high vs. the long-term goal of sobriety. We use a computational model to identify learning and decision-making abnormalities in methamphetamine-dependent individuals (MDI, n = 16) vs. healthy control subjects (HCS, n = 16), in a two-armed bandit task. In this task, subjects repeatedly choose between two arms with fixed but unknown reward rates. Each choice not only yields potential immediate reward but also information useful for long-term reward accumulation, thus pitting exploration against exploitation. We formalize the task as comprising a learning component, the updating of estimated reward rates based on ongoing observations, and a decision-making component, the choice among options based on current beliefs and uncertainties about reward rates. We model the learning component as iterative Bayesian inference (the Dynamic Belief Model), and the decision component using five competing decision policies: Win-stay/Lose-shift (WSLS), ε-Greedy, τ-Switch, Softmax, Knowledge Gradient. HCS and MDI significantly differ in how they learn about reward rates and use them to make decisions. HCS learn from past observations but weigh recent data more, and their decision policy is best fit as Softmax. MDI are more likely to follow the simple learning-independent policy of WSLS, and among MDI best fit by Softmax, they have more pessimistic prior beliefs about reward rates and are less likely to choose the option estimated to be most rewarding. Neurally, MDI's tendency to avoid the most rewarding option is associated with a lower gray matter volume of the thalamic dorsal lateral nucleus. More broadly, our work illustrates the ability of our computational framework to help reveal subtle learning and decision-making abnormalities in substance use.
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- Katia M Harlé
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San DiegoLa Jolla, CA, USA; Laureate Institute for Brain ResearchTulsa, OK, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA, USA
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Biobehavioral features associated with binge-eating disorder (BED) have been investigated; however, few systematic reviews to date have described neuroimaging findings from studies of BED. Emerging functional and structural studies support BED as having unique and overlapping neural features as compared with other disorders. Neuroimaging studies provide evidence linking heightened responses to palatable food cues with prefrontal areas, particularly the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), with specific relationships to hunger and reward-sensitivity measures. While few studies to date have investigated non-food-cue responses; these suggest a generalized hypofunctioning in frontostriatal areas during reward and inhibitory control processes. Early studies applying neuroimaging to treatment efforts suggest that targeting neural function underlying motivational processes may prove important in the treatment of BED.
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Alexopoulos GS, Manning K, Kanellopoulos D, McGovern A, Seirup JK, Banerjee S, Gunning F. Cognitive control, reward-related decision making and outcomes of late-life depression treated with an antidepressant. Psychol Med 2015; 45:3111-3120. [PMID: 26169527 PMCID: PMC4631680 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291715001075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Executive processes consist of at least two sets of functions: one concerned with cognitive control and the other with reward-related decision making. Abnormal performance in both sets occurs in late-life depression. This study tested the hypothesis that only abnormal performance in cognitive control tasks predicts poor outcomes of late-life depression treated with escitalopram. METHOD We studied older subjects with major depression (N = 53) and non-depressed subjects (N = 30). Executive functions were tested with the Iowa Gambling Test (IGT), Stroop Color-Word Test, Tower of London (ToL), and Dementia Rating Scale - Initiation/Perseveration domain (DRS-IP). After a 2-week placebo washout, depressed subjects received escitalopram (target daily dose: 20 mg) for 12 weeks. RESULTS There were no significant differences between depressed and non-depressed subjects on executive function tests. Hierarchical cluster analysis of depressed subjects identified a Cognitive Control cluster (abnormal Stroop, ToL, DRS-IP), a Reward-Related cluster (IGT), and an Executively Unimpaired cluster. Decline in depression was greater in the Executively Unimpaired (t = -2.09, df = 331, p = 0.0375) and the Reward-Related (t = -2.33, df = 331, p = 0.0202) clusters than the Cognitive Control cluster. The Executively Unimpaired cluster (t = 2.17, df = 331, p = 0.03) and the Reward-Related cluster (t = 2.03, df = 331, p = 0.0433) had a higher probability of remission than the Cognitive Control cluster. CONCLUSIONS Dysfunction of cognitive control functions, but not reward-related decision making, may influence the decline of symptoms and the probability of remission of late-life depression treated with escitalopram. If replicated, simple to administer cognitive control tests may be used to select depressed older patients at risk for poor outcomes to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors who may require structured psychotherapy.
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- University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Psychiatry
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry
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Hanssen E, van der Velde J, Gromann PM, Shergill SS, de Haan L, Bruggeman R, Krabbendam L, Aleman A, van Atteveldt N. Neural correlates of reward processing in healthy siblings of patients with schizophrenia. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:504. [PMID: 26441601 PMCID: PMC4585217 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Deficits in motivational behavior and psychotic symptoms often observed in schizophrenia (SZ) may be driven by dysfunctional reward processing (RP). RP can be divided in two different stages; reward anticipation and reward consumption. Aberrant processing during reward anticipation seems to be related to SZ. Studies in patients with SZ have found less activation in the ventral striatum (VS) during anticipation of reward, but these findings do not provide information on effect of the genetic load on reward processing. Therefore, this study investigated RP in healthy first-degree relatives of SZ patients. The sample consisted of 94 healthy siblings of SZ patients and 57 healthy controls. Participants completed a classic RP task, the Monetary Incentive Delay task, during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). As expected, there were no behavioral differences between groups. In contrast to our expectations, we found no differences in any of the anticipatory reward related brain areas (region of interest analyses). Whole-brain analyses did reveal group differences during both reward anticipation and reward consumption; during reward anticipation siblings showed less deactivation in the insula, posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and medial frontal gyrus (MFG) than controls. During reward consumption siblings showed less deactivation in the PCC and the right MFG compared to controls and activation in contrast to deactivation in controls in the precuneus and the left MFG. Exclusively in siblings, MFG activity correlated positively with subclinical negative symptoms. These regions are typically associated with the default mode network (DMN), which normally shows decreases in activation during task-related cognitive processes. Thus, in contrast to prior literature in patients with SZ, the results do not point to altered brain activity in classical RP brain areas, such as the VS. However, the weaker deactivation found outside the reward-related network in siblings could indicate reduced task-related suppression (i.e., hyperactivation) of the DMN. The presence of DMN hyperactivation during reward anticipation and reward consumption might indicate that siblings of patients with SZ have a higher baseline level of DMN activation and possible abnormal network functioning.
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- Esther Hanssen
- Department of Educational Neuroscience and LEARN! Institute, VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands ; CSI Lab, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London London, UK
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- Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Educational Neuroscience and LEARN! Institute, VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands ; CSI Lab, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London London, UK
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- CSI Lab, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London London, UK
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- Department of Early Psychosis, Academic Psychiatric Centre, Amsterdam Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Rob Giel Research Center, University Center for Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Educational Neuroscience and LEARN! Institute, VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Educational Neuroscience and LEARN! Institute, VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Sai L, Wang S, Ward A, Ku Y, Sang B. Individual differences in the habitual use of cognitive reappraisal predict the reward-related processing. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1256. [PMID: 26388796 PMCID: PMC4554950 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2015] [Accepted: 08/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recent studies have shown that instructed cognitive reappraisal can regulate the neural processing of reward. However, it is still unclear whether the habitual use of cognitive reappraisal in everyday life is related to brain activity involved in reward processing. In the present study, participants' neural responses to reward were measured using electroencephalography (EEG) recorded during a gambling task and their tendency to use cognitive reappraisal was assessed using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). Event-related potential (ERP) results indicated that losses on the gambling task elicited greater negative reward-related feedback negativity (FN) than gains. The differential FN between losses and gains was significantly correlated with cognitive reappraisal scores across participants such that individuals with a higher tendency to use cognitive reappraisal showed stronger reward processing (i.e., amplified FN difference between losses and gains). This correlation remained significant after controlling for expressive suppression scores. However, expressive suppression per se was not correlated with FN differences. Taken together, these results suggest that the habitual use of cognitive reappraisal is associated with increased neural processing of reward.
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- Liyang Sai
- The Key Lab of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University , Shanghai, China
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- The Key Lab of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University , Shanghai, China
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University , Evanston, IL, USA
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- The Key Lab of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University , Shanghai, China ; NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, NYU Shanghai and Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science , Shanghai, China
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- The Key Lab of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University , Shanghai, China ; School of Preschool and Special Education, East China Normal University , Shanghai, China
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Eating disorders are complex and serious psychiatric illnesses whose etiology includes psychological, biological, and social factors. Treatment of eating disorders is challenging as there are few evidence-based treatments and limited understanding of the mechanisms that result in sustained recovery. In the last 20 years, we have begun to identify neural pathways that are altered in eating disorders. Consideration of how these pathways may contribute to an eating disorder can provide an understanding of expected responses to treatments. Eating disorder behaviors include restrictive eating, compulsive overeating, and purging behaviors after eating. Eating disorders are associated with changes in many neural systems. In this targeted review, we focus on three cognitive processes associated with neurocircuitry differences in subjects with eating disorders such as reward, decision-making, and social behavior. We briefly examine how each of these systems function in healthy people, using Neurosynth meta-analysis to identify key regions commonly implicated in these circuits. We review the evidence for disruptions of these regions and systems in eating disorders. Finally, we describe psychiatric and psychological treatments that are likely to function by impacting these regions.
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- Carrie J McAdams
- University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
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- University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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Braams BR, van Duijvenvoorde AC, Peper JS, Crone EA. Longitudinal changes in adolescent risk-taking: a comprehensive study of neural responses to rewards, pubertal development, and risk-taking behavior. J Neurosci 2015; 35:7226-38. [PMID: 25948271 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4764-14.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 349] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Prior studies have highlighted adolescence as a period of increased risk-taking, which is postulated to result from an overactive reward system in the brain. Longitudinal studies are pivotal for testing these brain-behavior relations because individual slopes are more sensitive for detecting change. The aim of the current study was twofold: (1) to test patterns of age-related change (i.e., linear, quadratic, and cubic) in activity in the nucleus accumbens, a key reward region in the brain, in relation to change in puberty (self-report and testosterone levels), laboratory risk-taking and self-reported risk-taking tendency; and (2) to test whether individual differences in pubertal development and risk-taking behavior were contributors to longitudinal change in nucleus accumbens activity. We included 299 human participants at the first time point and 254 participants at the second time point, ranging between ages 8-27 years, time points were separated by a 2 year interval. Neural responses to rewards, pubertal development (self-report and testosterone levels), laboratory risk-taking (balloon analog risk task; BART), and self-reported risk-taking tendency (Behavior Inhibition System/Behavior Activation System questionnaire) were collected at both time points. The longitudinal analyses confirmed the quadratic age pattern for nucleus accumbens activity to rewards (peaking in adolescence), and the same quadratic pattern was found for laboratory risk-taking (BART). Nucleus accumbens activity change was further related to change in testosterone and self-reported reward-sensitivity (BAS Drive). Thus, this longitudinal analysis provides new insight in risk-taking and reward sensitivity in adolescence: (1) confirming an adolescent peak in nucleus accumbens activity, and (2) underlining a critical role for pubertal hormones and individual differences in risk-taking tendency.
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Evans KL, Hampson E. Sex-dependent effects on tasks assessing reinforcement learning and interference inhibition. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1044. [PMID: 26257691 PMCID: PMC4510310 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence suggests that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is influenced by sex steroids and that some cognitive functions dependent on the PFC may be sexually differentiated in humans. Past work has identified a male advantage on certain complex reinforcement learning tasks, but it is unclear which latent task components are important to elicit the sex difference. The objective of the current study was to investigate whether there are sex differences on measures of response inhibition and valenced feedback processing, elements that are shared by previously studied reinforcement learning tasks. Healthy young adults (90 males, 86 females) matched in general intelligence completed the Probabilistic Selection Task (PST), a Simon task, and the Stop-Signal task. On the PST, females were more accurate than males in learning from positive (but not negative) feedback. On the Simon task, males were faster than females, especially in the face of incongruent stimuli. No sex difference was observed in Stop-Signal reaction time. The current findings provide preliminary support for a sex difference in the processing of valenced feedback and in interference inhibition.
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- Kelly L. Evans
- Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, LondonON, Canada
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Kessel EM, Kujawa A, Hajcak Proudfit G, Klein DN. Neural reactivity to monetary rewards and losses differentiates social from generalized anxiety in children. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2015; 56:792-800. [PMID: 25363803 PMCID: PMC4667724 DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND The relationship between reward sensitivity and pediatric anxiety is poorly understood. Evidence suggests that alterations in reward processing are more characteristic of depressive than anxiety disorders. However, some studies have reported that anxiety disorders are also associated with perturbations in reward processing. Heterogeneity in the forms of anxiety studied may account for the differences between studies. We used the feedback-negativity, an event-related potential sensitive to monetary gains versus losses (ΔFN), to examine whether different forms of youth anxiety symptoms were uniquely associated with reward sensitivity as indexed by neural reactivity to the receipt of positive and negative monetary outcomes. METHOD Participants were 390, eight- to ten-year-old children (175 females) from a large community sample. The ΔFN was measured during a monetary reward task. Self-reports of child anxiety and depression symptoms and temperamental positive emotionality (PE) were obtained. RESULTS Multiple regression analysis revealed that social anxiety and generalized anxiety symptoms were unique predictors of reward sensitivity after accounting for concurrent depressive symptoms and PE. While social anxiety was associated with a greater ΔFN, generalized anxiety was associated with a reduced ΔFN. CONCLUSIONS Different symptom dimensions of child anxiety are differentially related to alterations in reward sensitivity. This may, in part, explain inconsistent findings in the literature regarding reward processing in anxiety.
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- Ellen M Kessel
- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook, New York, NY, USA
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von Rhein D, Cools R, Zwiers MP, van der Schaaf M, Franke B, Luman M, Oosterlaan J, Heslenfeld DJ, Hoekstra PJ, Hartman CA, Faraone SV, van Rooij D, van Dongen EV, Lojowska M, Mennes M, Buitelaar J. Increased neural responses to reward in adolescents and young adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and their unaffected siblings. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2015; 54:394-402. [PMID: 25901776 PMCID: PMC4417499 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2014] [Revised: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 02/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a heritable neuropsychiatric disorder associated with abnormal reward processing. Limited and inconsistent data exist about the neural mechanisms underlying this abnormality. Furthermore, it is not known whether reward processing is abnormal in unaffected siblings of participants with ADHD. METHOD We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate brain responses during reward anticipation and receipt with an adapted monetary incentive delay task in a large sample of adolescents and young adults with ADHD (n = 150), their unaffected siblings (n = 92), and control participants (n = 108), all of the same age. RESULTS Participants with ADHD showed, relative to control participants, increased responses in the anterior cingulate, anterior frontal cortex, and cerebellum during reward anticipation, and in the orbitofrontal, occipital cortex and ventral striatum. Responses of unaffected siblings were increased in these regions as well, except for the cerebellum during anticipation and ventral striatum during receipt. CONCLUSION ADHD in adolescents and young adults is associated with enhanced neural responses in frontostriatal circuitry to anticipation and receipt of reward. The findings support models emphasizing aberrant reward processing in ADHD, and suggest that processing of reward is subject to familial influences. Future studies using standard monetary incentive delay task parameters are needed to replicate our findings.
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- Daniel von Rhein
- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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Parent MA, Amarante LM, Liu B, Weikum D, Laubach M. The medial prefrontal cortex is crucial for the maintenance of persistent licking and the expression of incentive contrast. Front Integr Neurosci 2015; 9:23. [PMID: 25870544 PMCID: PMC4375994 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2015.00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2014] [Accepted: 03/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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We examined the role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in reward processing and the control of consummatory behavior. Rats were trained in an operant licking procedure in which they received alternating access to solutions with relatively high and low levels of sucrose (20 and 4%, w/v). Each level of sucrose was available for fixed intervals of 30 s over 30 min test sessions. Over several days of training, rats came to lick persistently when the high level of sucrose was available and suppressed licking when the low level of sucrose was available. Pharmacological inactivations of the mPFC, specifically the rostral part of the prelimbic area, greatly reduced intake of the higher value fluid and only slightly increased intake of the lower value fluid. In addition, the inactivations altered within-session patterns and microstructural measures of licking. Rats licked equally for the high and low levels of sucrose at the beginning of the test sessions and “relearned” to reduce intake of the low value fluid over the test sessions. Durations of licking bouts (clusters of licks with inter-lick intervals <0.5 s) were reduced for the high value fluid and there were many more brief licking bouts (<1 s) when the low value fluid was available. These effects were verified using an alternative approach (optogenetic silencing using archaerhodopsin) and were distinct from inactivation of the ventral striatum, which simply increased overall intake. Our findings suggest that the mPFC is crucial for the maintenance of persistent licking and the expression of learned feeding strategies.
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- Marc A Parent
- The John B. Pierce Laboratory, New Haven, CT USA ; Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT USA
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- Department of Biology and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, American University Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Biology and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, American University Washington, DC, USA
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Reinforcement learning models have demonstrated that phasic activity of dopamine neurons during reward expectation encodes information about the predictability of reward and cues that predict reward. Self-control strategies such as those practiced in mindfulness-based approaches is claimed to reduce negative and positive reactions to stimuli suggesting the hypothesis that such training may influence basic reward processing. Using a passive conditioning task and fMRI in a group of experienced mindfulness meditators and age-matched controls, we tested the hypothesis that mindfulness meditation influence reward and reward prediction error (PE) signals. We found diminished positive and negative PE-related blood-oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) responses in the putamen in meditators compared with controls. In the meditator group this decrease in striatal BOLD responses to reward PE was paralleled by increased activity in posterior insula, a primary interoceptive region. Critically, responses in the putamen during early trials of the conditioning procedure (run 1) were elevated in both meditators and controls. Overall, these results provide evidence that experienced mindfulness meditators are able to attenuate reward prediction signals to valenced stimuli, which may be related to interoceptive processes encoded in the posterior insula.
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- Ulrich Kirk
- Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London London, UK ; Human Neuroimaging Laboratory, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Roanoke, VA, USA ; Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA, USA
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Wierenga CE, Ely A, Bischoff-Grethe A, Bailer UF, Simmons AN, Kaye WH. Are Extremes of Consumption in Eating Disorders Related to an Altered Balance between Reward and Inhibition? Front Behav Neurosci 2014; 8:410. [PMID: 25538579 PMCID: PMC4260511 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 11/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The primary defining characteristic of a diagnosis of an eating disorder (ED) is the "disturbance of eating or eating-related behavior that results in the altered consumption or absorption of food" (DSM V; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). There is a spectrum, ranging from those who severely restrict eating and become emaciated on one end to those who binge and overconsume, usually accompanied by some form of compensatory behaviors, on the other. How can we understand reasons for such extremes of food consummatory behaviors? Recent work on obesity and substance use disorders has identified behaviors and neural pathways that play a powerful role in human consummatory behaviors. That is, corticostriatal limbic and dorsal cognitive neural circuitry can make drugs and food rewarding, but also engage self-control mechanisms that may inhibit their use. Importantly, there is considerable evidence that alterations of these systems also occur in ED. This paper explores the hypothesis that an altered balance of reward and inhibition contributes to altered extremes of response to salient stimuli, such as food. We will review recent studies that show altered sensitivity to reward and punishment in ED, with evidence of altered activity in corticostriatal and insula processes with respect to monetary gains or losses, and tastes of palatable foods. We will also discuss evidence for a spectrum of extremes of inhibition and dysregulation behaviors in ED supported by studies suggesting that this is related to top-down self-control mechanisms. The lack of a mechanistic understanding of ED has thwarted efforts for evidence-based approaches to develop interventions. Understanding how ED behavior is encoded in neural circuits would provide a foundation for developing more specific and effective treatment approaches.
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- Christina E. Wierenga
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Biological Psychiatry, Austria Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Gerlach KD, Spreng RN, Madore KP, Schacter DL. Future planning: default network activity couples with frontoparietal control network and reward-processing regions during process and outcome simulations. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2014; 9:1942-51. [PMID: 24493844 PMCID: PMC4249471 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Revised: 12/01/2013] [Accepted: 12/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We spend much of our daily lives imagining how we can reach future goals and what will happen when we attain them. Despite the prevalence of such goal-directed simulations, neuroimaging studies on planning have mainly focused on executive processes in the frontal lobe. This experiment examined the neural basis of process simulations, during which participants imagined themselves going through steps toward attaining a goal, and outcome simulations, during which participants imagined events they associated with achieving a goal. In the scanner, participants engaged in these simulation tasks and an odd/even control task. We hypothesized that process simulations would recruit default and frontoparietal control network regions, and that outcome simulations, which allow us to anticipate the affective consequences of achieving goals, would recruit default and reward-processing regions. Our analysis of brain activity that covaried with process and outcome simulations confirmed these hypotheses. A functional connectivity analysis with posterior cingulate, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior inferior parietal lobule seeds showed that their activity was correlated during process simulations and associated with a distributed network of default and frontoparietal control network regions. During outcome simulations, medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala seeds covaried together and formed a functional network with default and reward-processing regions.
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- Kathy D Gerlach
- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA and Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Human Neuroscience Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA and Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Human Neuroscience Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA and Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Human Neuroscience Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA and Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Human Neuroscience Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
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For the consequences of our actions to guide behavior, the brain must represent different types of outcome-related information. For example, an outcome can be construed as negative because an expected reward was not delivered or because an outcome of low value was delivered. Thus behavioral consequences can differ in terms of the information they provide about outcome probability and value. We investigated the role of the striatum in processing probability-based and value-based negative feedback by training participants to associate cues with food rewards and then employing a selective satiety procedure to devalue one food outcome. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined brain activity related to receipt of expected rewards, receipt of devalued outcomes, omission of expected rewards, omission of devalued outcomes, and expected omissions of an outcome. Nucleus accumbens activation was greater for rewarding outcomes than devalued outcomes, but activity in this region did not correlate with the probability of reward receipt. Activation of the right caudate and putamen, however, was largest in response to rewarding outcomes relative to expected omissions of reward. The dorsal striatum (caudate and putamen) at the time of feedback also showed a parametric increase correlating with the trialwise probability of reward receipt. Our results suggest that the ventral striatum is sensitive to the motivational relevance, or subjective value, of the outcome, while the dorsal striatum codes for a more complex signal that incorporates reward probability. Value and probability information may be integrated in the dorsal striatum, to facilitate action planning and allocation of effort.
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