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Kirlic N, Akeman E, DeVille DC, Yeh HW, Cosgrove KT, McDermott TJ, Touthang J, Clausen A, Paulus MP, Aupperle RL. A machine learning analysis of risk and protective factors of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in college students. J Am Coll Health 2023; 71:1863-1872. [PMID: 34292856 PMCID: PMC8782938 DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2021.1947841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To identify robust and reproducible factors associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) in college students. METHODS 356 first-year university students completed a large battery of demographic and clinically-relevant self-report measures during the first semester of college and end-of-year (n = 228). Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R) assessed STBs. A machine learning (ML) pipeline using stacking and nested cross-validation examined correlates of SBQ-R scores. RESULTS 9.6% of students were identified at significant STBs risk by the SBQ-R. The ML algorithm explained 28.3% of variance (95%CI: 28-28.5%) in baseline SBQ-R scores, with depression severity, social isolation, meaning and purpose in life, and positive affect among the most important factors. There was a significant reduction in STBs at end-of-year with only 1.8% of students identified at significant risk. CONCLUSION Analyses replicated known factors associated with STBs during the first semester of college and identified novel, potentially modifiable factors including positive affect and social connectedness.
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- Namik Kirlic
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Health Services & Outcomes Research, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Education and Clinical Center, VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke University Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
- School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA
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White EJ, Demuth MJ, Nacke M, Kirlic N, Kuplicki R, Spechler PA, McDermott TJ, DeVille DC, Stewart JL, Lowe J, Paulus MP, Aupperle RL. Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2023; 18:nsac045. [PMID: 35801628 PMCID: PMC9949499 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsac045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Revised: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
American Indians (AI) experience disproportionately high prevalence of suicide and substance use disorders (SUD). However, accounting for risk burden (e.g. historical trauma and discrimination), the likelihood of mental health disorders or SUD is similar or decreased compared with the broader population. Such findings have spurred psychological research examining the protective factors, but no studies have investigated its potential neural mechanisms. Inhibitory control is one of the potential neurobehavioral construct with demonstrated protective effects, but has not been examined in neuroimaging studies with AI populations specifically. We examined the incidence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) and SUD among AI (n = 76) and propensity matched (sex, age, income, IQ proxy and trauma exposure) non-Hispanic White (NHW) participants (n = 76). Among the AI sample, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data recorded during the stop-signal task (SST) was examined in relation to STB and SUDs. AIs relative to NHW subjects displayed lower incidence of STB. AIs with no reported STBs showed greater activity in executive control regions during the SST compared with AI who endorsed STB. AI without SUD demonstrated lower activity relative to those individual reporting SUD. Results are consistent with a growing body of literature demonstrating the high level of risk burden driving disparate prevalence of mental health concerns in AI. Furthermore, differential activation during inhibitory control processing in AI individuals without STB may represent a neural mechanism of protective effects against mental health problems in AI. Future research is needed to elucidate sociocultural factors contributing protection against mental health outcomes in AIs and further delineate neural mechanisms with respect to specific concerns (e.g. SUD vs STB).
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- Evan J White
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
- Oxley School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74119, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
- Oxley School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74119, USA
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- School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
- Oxley School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74119, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA
- Oxley School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74119, USA
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Ironside M, DeVille DC, Kuplicki RT, Burrows KP, Smith R, Teed AR, Paulus MP, Khalsa SS. The unique face of comorbid anxiety and depression: increased interoceptive fearfulness and reactivity. Front Behav Neurosci 2023; 16:1083357. [PMID: 36755667 PMCID: PMC9899910 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.1083357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Anxiety and depression commonly co-occur, yet the underlying brain and behavioral processes are poorly understood. Here we examined the hypothesis that individuals with comorbid anxiety and depression would show increased fearful reactivity to an aversive interoceptive perturbation relative to depressed-only individuals. One-hundred and eighty anxious and/or depressed participants from the Tulsa 1000 study completed multi-level behavioral or functional magnetic resonance imaging assessments of interoception and nociception including breath-hold and cold-pressor challenges, and heartbeat perception and interoceptive attention tasks. One-hundred and four individuals with comorbid depression and anxiety disorders (Dep+Anx) were propensity matched with 52 individuals with depression-only (Dep). Data were analyzed using mixed-effects linear regression. The Dep+Anx group showed significantly greater self-reported fear of suffocation during breath holding (Wilcoxon r = 0.23) and reduced cold pain tolerance (R 2 = 0.027) signified by hand removal during immersion. However, these groups did not differ with respect to neutrally-valenced behavioral indices of heartbeat perception or neural indices of interoceptive attention. Individuals with comorbid depression and anxiety, vs. those with only depression, show increased respiratory fearfulness and nociceptive reactivity during perturbations of these signals, whilst showing similar interoceptive awareness in the absence of perturbation. Our findings suggest that individuals with comorbid anxiety and depression process aversive interoceptive and nociceptive signals differently than those with depression alone, providing support for a process model of increased threat sensitivity and hyperarousal in anxious depression.
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- Maria Ironside
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States,Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States,*Correspondence: Maria Ironside
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States,Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States,Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States,Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States,Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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Kerr KL, DeVille DC, Moseman SE, Simmons WK. Aberrant gastric functioning in weight-restored but not acute restricting-type anorexia nervosa: An electrogastrography study. Int J Eat Disord 2022; 55:1384-1389. [PMID: 35971795 DOI: 10.1002/eat.23802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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: 03/10/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) have high levels of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, functional GI disorders, and alterations in interoception. The primary aims of the current study were to determine (1) whether individuals with AN differed in gastric physiology as measured by electrogastrography (EGG) as compared to healthy individuals and (2) whether their EGG activity changed from pre- to post-weight restoration. METHOD Adolescent and young adult females receiving inpatient treatment for restricting-type AN (n = 20) and healthy control females (n = 21) completed two EGG sessions, with measurements taken in fasting state and after administration of a water load. Participants with AN completed the first session while underweight and the second session following weight restoration. Healthy control participants also completed two sessions matched for length of time between sessions. RESULTS Participants with AN exhibited decreased normogastria post-water load when they were weight restored compared to when they were underweight. Healthy control participants' EGG measures were stable across sessions. DISCUSSION Findings provide evidence for aberrant gastric physiology in individuals with AN who have been weight restored, but not those in the acute phase of the illness. This supports the need for further research on GI functioning in AN. PUBLIC SIGNIFICANCE Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a highly debilitating eating disorder that is difficult to treat. The causes of AN are largely unknown, but some theories suggest problems in gastrointestinal functioning may contribute to the disorder. This study found aberrant gastric functioning in individuals diagnosed with AN after weight restoration treatment. These findings contribute to our understanding of the causes and maintenance of AN and may ultimately lead to better treatments.
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- Kara L Kerr
- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.,Oklahoma State University Biomedical Imaging Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
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- Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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- Oklahoma State University Biomedical Imaging Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.,Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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Akeman E, White E, Wolitzky-Taylor K, Santiago J, McDermott TJ, DeVille DC, Stewart JL, Paulus M, Taylor CT, Aupperle RL. Amplification of Positivity Therapy for Co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorder with Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: Pilot Feasibility Study and Case Series. Behav Modif 2022; 46:1021-1046. [PMID: 34253077 PMCID: PMC8752639 DOI: 10.1177/01454455211030506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
Positive valence system dysregulation is a relatively unexplored transdiagnostic mechanism and potential treatment target underpinning alcohol use and anxiety and depression symptoms. The current study examined the feasibility and potential benefit of a behavioral intervention focused on amplification of positivity (AMP) with eight adults (five female) diagnosed with alcohol use disorder and clinically significant depression or anxiety (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04278365). AMP for alcohol use (AMP-A) was delivered in 11 individual sessions involving positive activity interventions integrated alongside psychoeducation and alcohol use monitoring. Case descriptions are provided to illustrate treatment implementation. Treatment credibility and acceptability, participant endorsement of the therapy, and homework compliance were rated moderate to high. Exploratory, intent-to-treat analyses suggested medium to large effect sizes for post-treatment improvements in alcohol use, depression, anxiety, and positive affect. Results provide initial evidence of feasibility and acceptability of AMP-A and will be useful for informing future randomized clinical trials to examine clinical efficacy.
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA,The University of Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA,The University of Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA,The University of Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA,The University of Tulsa, OK, USA
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Akeman E, Cannon MJ, Kirlic N, Cosgrove KT, DeVille DC, McDermott TJ, White EJ, Cohen ZP, Forthman KL, Paulus MP, Aupperle RL. Active coping strategies and less pre-pandemic alcohol use relate to college student mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Front Psychol 2022; 13:926697. [PMID: 35978795 PMCID: PMC9376611 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.926697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Objective To further delineate risk and resilience factors contributing to trajectories of mental health symptoms experienced by college students through the pandemic. Participants n = 183 college students (67.2% female). Methods Linear mixed models examined time effects on depression and anxiety. Propensity-matched subgroups exhibiting "increased" versus "low and stable" depression symptoms from before to after the pandemic-onset were compared on pre-pandemic demographic and psychological factors and COVID-related experiences and coping strategies. Results Students experienced worsening of mental health symptoms throughout the pandemic, particularly during Fall 2020 compared with Fall 2019 (Depression scale d = -0.43 [95% CI: -0.65 to -0.21]). The propensity-matched subgroup exhibiting relative resilience ("low and stable" symptoms) reported less alcohol use prior to the pandemic, greater use of active coping strategies, and less of an impact on their college progress. Conclusions Results point to several potential targets of screening and intervention to decrease residual impacts of the pandemic.
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- School of Community Medicine, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- School of Community Medicine, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- School of Community Medicine, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- School of Community Medicine, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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Kerr KL, Ratliff EL, Cohen ZP, Fuller S, Cosgrove KT, DeVille DC, Misaki M, Morris AS, Bodurka J. Real-Time Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Dyadic Neurofeedback for Emotion Regulation: A Proof-of-Concept Study. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:910951. [PMID: 35721350 PMCID: PMC9204632 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.910951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Real-time fMRI (rt-fMRI) neurofeedback can be used to non-invasively modulate brain activity and has shown initial effectiveness in symptom reduction for psychiatric disorders. Neurofeedback paradigms often target the neurocircuitry underlying emotion regulation, as difficulties with emotion regulation are common across many psychiatric conditions. Adolescence is a key period for the development of emotion regulation, with the parent-adolescent relationship providing an important context for learning how to modulate one's emotions. Here, we present evidence for a novel extension of rt-fMRI neurofeedback wherein a second person (the parent) views neurofeedback from the focal participant (adolescent) and attempts to regulate the other person's brain activity. In this proof-of-concept study, mother-adolescent dyads (n = 6; all female) participated in a dyadic neurofeedback protocol, during which they communicated via active noise-canceling microphones and headphones. During the scan, adolescents described current emotionally upsetting situations in their lives, and their mothers responded while viewing neurofeedback from the adolescent's right anterior insular cortex (aIC)-a key hub for emotion-related processing. The mother was instructed to supportively respond to her daughter's negative emotions and attempt to downregulate the aIC activity. Mean right aIC activation during each run was calculated for each adolescent participant, and results revealed a downward trend across the session (β = -0.17, SE β = 0.19, Cohen's f 2 = 0.03). Results of this proof-of-concept study support further research using dyadic neurofeedback to target emotion-related processing. Future applications may include therapist-client dyads and continued research with parents and children. Clinical Trial Registration [www.ClinicalTrials.gov], identifier [NCT03929263].
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- Kara L. Kerr
- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
- Oklahoma State University Biomedical Imaging Center, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Oklahoma State University Biomedical Imaging Center, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Center for Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
- Oklahoma State University Biomedical Imaging Center, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Department of Behavioral Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
- Oklahoma State University Biomedical Imaging Center, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
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Burrows K, DeVille DC, Cosgrove KT, Kuplicki RT, Paulus MP, Aupperle R, Khalsa SS, Stewart JL. Corrigendum to "Impact of serotonergic medication on interoception in major depressive disorder" [Biological Psychology 169 (2022),108286]. Biol Psychol 2022; 171:108356. [PMID: 35589460 PMCID: PMC9205263 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kaiping Burrows
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States.
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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Burrows K, DeVille DC, Cosgrove KT, Kuplicki RT, Paulus MP, Aupperle R, Khalsa SS, Stewart JL. Impact of serotonergic medication on interoception in major depressive disorder. Biol Psychol 2022; 169:108286. [PMID: 35149138 PMCID: PMC8958795 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Revised: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Unmedicated individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) show abnormal interoception, but it is unclear whether antidepressant treatment via serotonergic medication alters this relationship. The current cross-sectional study examined associations between neural and behavioral indices of interoceptive processing and chronic serotonergic medication administration in MDD. 47 selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)-medicated MDD (MDD-SSRI) individuals were propensity-matched with 48 unmedicated current MDD (MDD-UnMed) and 41 healthy comparison (HC) participants on demographics including age, sex, body mass index, education, as well as on dimensional scales of symptom severity including depression and anxiety. All participants completed an interoceptive attention task during functional magnetic resonance imaging, and a behavioral heartbeat tapping task under three conditions: Guessing, No Guessing, and Breath Hold. Relative to HC, both MDD groups: (1) exhibited lower mid-insula, amygdala, putamen, and caudate activation during interoceptive versus exteroceptive attention; and (2) showed poorer heartbeat tapping performance during the Breath Hold condition. However, the MDD-SSRI group reported higher intensity ratings of heartbeat and stomach sensations than MDD-UnMed and HC during the interoceptive attention task. These findings suggest that the attenuated patterns of neural activation observed in depressed individuals during interoceptive attention are not ameliorated by the chronic administration of serotonergic medications. However, amplified interoceptive sensation ratings suggest a potential impact of chronic serotonergic medication on conscious experiences of internal body states. Future investigations will need to determine the extent to which serotonergic medications acutely influence interoceptive processing, and whether such changes play a role in therapeutic responses during treatment initiation.
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- Kaiping Burrows
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States.
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK,Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK,Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK,Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK,Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
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Cosgrove KT, Kerr KL, Ratliff EL, Moore AJ, Misaki M, DeVille DC, Aupperle RL, Simmons WK, Bodurka J, Morris AS. Effects of Parent Emotion Socialization on the Neurobiology Underlying Adolescent Emotion Processing: A Multimethod fMRI Study. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol 2022; 50:149-161. [PMID: 35113308 PMCID: PMC9262419 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-020-00736-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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] [Accepted: 11/15/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
Parents' emotion socialization (ES) practices impact socioemotional development throughout adolescence. Little is known, however, regarding the neurobiology underlying these effects. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine how parent ES practices relate to adolescent brain function during emotion processing. Thirty-three adolescents (ages 14-16) reported on ES practices of a focal parent (primarily mothers) using the Emotions as a Child (EAC) Scale. Adolescents also completed a conflict discussion task with this parent, and parents' statements were coded for emotional valence. Adolescents performed two fMRI tasks: a standard emotion processing (EP) task (n = 32) and the Testing Emotional Attunement and Mutuality (TEAM) task (n = 27). The EP task consisted of viewing emotional pictures and either reacting naturally or using cognitive reappraisal to regulate emotional responses. The TEAM task was performed with the parent and included trials during which adolescents were shown that their parent made an error, costing the dyad $5. Parent negative verbalizations during the conflict discussion were associated with greater activity in the thalamus during the emotion reactivity condition of the EP task and in the thalamus, superior medial and superior frontal gyri, anterior insula, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during the costly error condition of the TEAM task. Unsupportive ES was associated with greater activity in the supplementary motor area and less activity in the paracentral gyrus and amygdala during the costly error condition of the TEAM task. This study supports the premise that ES influences adolescents' emotion-related neural processing, particularly when using ecologically valid tasks in social contexts.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kelly T Cosgrove
- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA.
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
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- Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
- School of Community Medicine, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
- Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
- Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK, USA
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DeVille DC, Khalsa SS, Lapidus RC, White E, Paulus MP, Aupperle RL. A Transdiagnostic Multilevel Examination of Interoceptive Processing in Individuals With a Remote History of Suicidal Behavior. Behav Ther 2021; 52:1080-1092. [PMID: 34452663 PMCID: PMC8403233 DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2021.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
A developing area of research suggests that there may be a relationship between interoception and suicidal behavior. For example, it was recently reported that individuals who made a suicide attempt within the previous 5 years exhibit behavioral and neural abnormalities across multiple domains of interoception relative to nonattempters. This included increased tolerance for aversive sensations of pain and dyspnea, reduced heartbeat-perception accuracy, and blunted insula activity during attention to cardiac sensations. However, the degree to which interoceptive deficits persist following a suicidal attempt is unknown. In the current study, we examined differences between individuals with a remote history of suicide attempts (greater than 5 years ago; N = 56) versus those with no history of attempts (N = 240). We found that remote suicide attempters demonstrated greater pain tolerance and lower ratings of stress during a cold-pressor challenge and lower ratings of suffocation during a breath-hold challenge, as compared to nonattempters. In contrast, there were no group differences in breath-hold duration, interoceptive accuracy on a heartbeat-tapping task, or insula activation during cardiac attention. An exploratory resting-state functional connectivity analysis of individuals with suicide attempts in the past 5 years (N = 23), individuals with more remote histories of suicide attempts (N = 39), and nonattempters (N = 232) revealed preliminary and subtle evidence of differences in insula connectivity with areas of the temporal cortex in remote suicide attempters. Taken together, these findings suggest that blunted affective responses to aversive interoceptive sensations is an enduring characteristic of suicide attempters, even when assessed many years after a suicide attempt, whereas differences in the experience of nonaversive interoceptive sensations may be less persistent.
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- Danielle C. DeVille
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK,Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK,Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, 1215 S. Boulder Ave. W., Tulsa, OK
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK,Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK,Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, 1215 S. Boulder Ave. W., Tulsa, OK
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK,Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, 1215 S. Boulder Ave. W., Tulsa, OK
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Ratliff EL, Kerr KL, Misaki M, Cosgrove KT, Moore AJ, DeVille DC, Silk JS, Barch DM, Tapert SF, Simmons WK, Bodurka J, Morris AS. Into the Unknown: Examining Neural Representations of Parent-Adolescent Interactions. Child Dev 2021; 92:e1361-e1376. [PMID: 34291820 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
The parent-adolescent relationship is important for adolescents' emotion regulation (ER), yet little is known regarding the neural patterns of dyadic ER that occur during parent-adolescent interactions. A novel measure that can be used to examine such patterns is cross-brain connectivity (CBC)-concurrent and time-lagged connectivity between two individuals' brain regions. This study sought to provide evidence of CBC and explore associations between CBC, parenting, and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Thirty-five adolescents (mean age = 15 years, 69% female, 72% Non-Hispanic White, 17% Black, 11% Hispanic or Latino) and one biological parent (94% female) completed an fMRI hyperscanning conflict discussion task. Results revealed CBC between emotion-related brain regions. Exploratory analyses indicated CBC is associated with parenting and adolescent depressive symptoms.
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research.,University of Oklahoma
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Cohen ZP, Cosgrove KT, DeVille DC, Akeman E, Singh MK, White E, Stewart JL, Aupperle RL, Paulus MP, Kirlic N. The Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescent Mental Health: Preliminary Findings From a Longitudinal Sample of Healthy and At-Risk Adolescents. Front Pediatr 2021; 9:622608. [PMID: 34169046 PMCID: PMC8217763 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2021.622608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on far-reaching consequences for adolescents. Adolescents with early life stress (ELS) may be at particular risk. We sought to examine how COVID-19 impacted psychological functioning in a sample of healthy and ELS-exposed adolescents during the pandemic. Methods: A total of 24 adolescents (15 healthy, nine ELS) completed self-report measures prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The effect of COVID-19 on symptoms of depression and anxiety were explored using linear mixed-effect analyses. Results: With the onset of the pandemic, healthy but not ELS-exposed adolescents evidenced increased symptoms of depression and anxiety (ps < 0.05). Coping by talking with friends and prioritizing sleep had a protective effect against anxiety for healthy adolescents (t = -3.76, p = 0.002). Conclusions: On average, this study demonstrated large increases in depression and anxiety in adolescents who were healthy prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, while ELS-exposed adolescents evidenced high but stable symptoms over time.
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- Zsofia P. Cohen
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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Kerr KL, Ralph-Nearman C, Colaizzi JM, DeVille DC, Breslin FJ, Aupperle RL, Paulus MP, Morris AS. Gastric symptoms and low perceived maternal warmth are associated with eating disorder symptoms in young adolescent girls. Int J Eat Disord 2021; 54:1009-1018. [PMID: 33836108 PMCID: PMC9945938 DOI: 10.1002/eat.23516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Revised: 03/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study sought to determine whether gastric symptoms are associated with later eating disorder (ED) symptoms during early adolescence, and whether this relationship is moderated by parental warmth/acceptance and/or the child's sex. METHOD Longitudinal data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive DevelopmentSM Study were utilized. Participants ages 9-10 years old (N = 4,950; 2,370 female) completed measures at baseline and 1 year later (Y1). At baseline, gastric symptoms were measured by parent-reported items from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and perceived parental acceptance was measured by youth report on the Children's Report of Parent Behavior Inventory (CRPBI) Acceptance subscale separately for mothers and fathers. ED symptoms at Y1 were assessed by parent report on a computerized version of the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS). Linear mixed-effects models were conducted separately for maternal and paternal acceptance to test relationships among variables. RESULTS A three-way interaction between baseline gastric symptoms, sex, and maternal acceptance predicted Y1 ED symptoms (𝛽 = 0.08; p < .01). Post-hoc analyses revealed that the interaction between gastric symptoms and maternal acceptance was significant for girls only (𝛽 = -0.06, p < .01), such that low maternal acceptance was associated with a stronger relationship between baseline gastric symptoms and Y1 ED symptoms. No statistically significant main effects or interactions were found in the model for paternal acceptance. DISCUSSION Gastric symptoms and low perceived maternal acceptance may interact to result in heightened risk for EDs in young adolescent girls.
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- Kara L. Kerr
- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky,Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma,Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma,Department of Community Medicine, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma,Department of Community Medicine, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma,Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma,Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
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DeVille DC, Erchull MJ, Mailloux JR. Intuitive eating mediates the relationship between interoceptive accuracy and eating disorder risk. Eat Behav 2021; 41:101495. [PMID: 33713922 DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2021.101495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [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] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
Research supports an association between altered interoceptive accuracy, or the ability to accurately monitor sensations from the body, and disordered eating. However, the behavioral mechanism through which interoceptive accuracy may influence eating behaviors is unclear. Intuitive eating, the ability to regulate food intake according to visceral cues of hunger and satiety, is positively related to interoceptive accuracy and negatively related to disordered eating. Therefore, we hypothesized that interoceptive accuracy would be negatively associated with intuitive eating which would, in turn, influence eating disorder risk. A mediation analysis was performed to test this hypothesis in a sample of 41 undergraduate women who completed a heartbeat counting task to assess interoceptive accuracy, followed by self-report measures of intuitive eating ability and eating disorder risk. We found that eating for physical rather than emotional reasons and reliance on hunger and satiety cues, two aspects of intuitive eating, mediated the relationship between interoceptive accuracy and eating disorder risk. Although further research is necessary, it is possible that findings regarding the association between interoceptive accuracy and intuitive eating may inform the development of eating disorder prevention efforts.
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- Danielle C DeVille
- University of Mary Washington, Department of Psychological Science, 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, United States; University of Tulsa, Department of Psychology, 800 S. Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74104, United States
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- University of Mary Washington, Department of Psychological Science, 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, United States.
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- University of Mary Washington, Department of Psychological Science, 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, United States.
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McDermott TJ, Kirlic N, Akeman E, Touthang J, Cosgrove KT, DeVille DC, Clausen AN, White EJ, Kuplicki R, Aupperle RL. Visual cortical regions show sufficient test-retest reliability while salience regions are unreliable during emotional face processing. Neuroimage 2020; 220:117077. [PMID: 32574806 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Revised: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies frequently use emotional face processing tasks to probe neural circuitry related to psychiatric disorders and treatments with an emphasis on regions within the salience network (e.g., amygdala). Findings across previous test-retest reliability studies of emotional face processing have shown high variability, potentially due to differences in data analytic approaches. The present study comprehensively examined the test-retest reliability of an emotional faces task utilizing multiple approaches to region of interest (ROI) analysis and by examining voxel-wise reliability across the entire brain for both neural activation and functional connectivity. Analyses included 42 healthy adult participants who completed an fMRI scan concurrent with an emotional faces task on two separate days with an average of 25.52 days between scans. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were calculated for the 'FACES-SHAPES' and 'FACES' (compared to implicit baseline) contrasts across the following: anatomical ROIs identified from a publicly available brain atlas (i.e., Brainnetome), functional ROIs consisting of 5-mm spheres centered on peak voxels from a publicly available meta-analytic database (i.e., Neurosynth), and whole-brain, voxel-wise analysis. Whole-brain, voxel-wise analyses of functional connectivity were also conducted using both anatomical and functional seed ROIs. While group-averaged neural activation maps were consistent across time, only one anatomical ROI and two functional ROIs showed good or excellent individual-level reliability for neural activation. The anatomical ROI was the right medioventral fusiform gyrus for the FACES contrast (ICC = 0.60). The functional ROIs were the left and the right fusiform face area (FFA) for both FACES-SHAPES and FACES (Left FFA ICCs = 0.69 & 0.79; Right FFA ICCs = 0.68 & 0.66). Poor reliability (ICCs < 0.4) was identified for almost all other anatomical and functional ROIs, with some exceptions showing fair reliability (ICCs = 0.4-0.59). Whole-brain voxel-wise analysis of neural activation identified voxels with good (ICCs = 0.6-0.74) to excellent reliability (ICCs > 0.75) that were primarily located in visual cortex, with several clusters in bilateral dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Whole-brain voxel-wise analyses of functional connectivity for amygdala and fusiform gyrus identified very few voxels with good to excellent reliability using both anatomical and functional seed ROIs. Exceptions included clusters in right cerebellum and right DLPFC that showed reliable connectivity with left amygdala (ICCs > 0.6). In conclusion, results indicate that visual cortical regions demonstrate good reliability at the individual level for neural activation, but reliability is generally poor for salience regions often focused on within psychiatric research (e.g., amygdala). Given these findings, future clinical neuroimaging studies using emotional faces tasks to examine individual differences might instead focus on visual regions and their role in psychiatric disorders.
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- Timothy J McDermott
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Durham VA Health Care System, Durham, NC, USA; Duke University Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States; Department of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States.
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DeVille DC, Kuplicki R, Stewart JL, Paulus MP, Khalsa SS. Diminished responses to bodily threat and blunted interoception in suicide attempters. eLife 2020; 9:e51593. [PMID: 32254020 PMCID: PMC7138608 DOI: 10.7554/elife.51593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Psychological theories of suicide suggest that certain traits may reduce aversion to physical threat and increase the probability of transitioning from suicidal ideation to action. Here, we investigated whether blunted sensitivity to bodily signals is associated with suicidal action by comparing individuals with a history of attempted suicide to a matched psychiatric reference sample without suicide attempts. We examined interoceptive processing across a panel of tasks: breath-hold challenge, cold-pressor challenge, and heartbeat perception during and outside of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Suicide attempters tolerated the breath-hold and cold-pressor challenges for significantly longer and displayed lower heartbeat perception accuracy than non-attempters. These differences were mirrored by reduced activation of the mid/posterior insula during attention to heartbeat sensations. Our findings suggest that suicide attempters exhibit an 'interoceptive numbing' characterized by increased tolerance for aversive sensations and decreased awareness of non-aversive sensations. We conclude that blunted interoception may be implicated in suicidal behavior.
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- Danielle C DeVille
- Laureate Institute for Brain ResearchTulsaUnited States
- Department of Psychology, The University of TulsaTulsaUnited States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain ResearchTulsaUnited States
- Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of TulsaTulsaUnited States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain ResearchTulsaUnited States
- Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of TulsaTulsaUnited States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain ResearchTulsaUnited States
- Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of TulsaTulsaUnited States
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Kerr KL, Cosgrove KT, Ratliff EL, Burrows K, Misaki M, Moore AJ, DeVille DC, Silk JS, Tapert SF, Bodurka J, Simmons WK, Morris AS. TEAMwork: Testing Emotional Attunement and Mutuality During Parent-Adolescent fMRI. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:24. [PMID: 32116608 PMCID: PMC7018765 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The parent-child relationship and family context influence the development of emotion regulation (ER) brain circuitry and related skills in children and adolescents. Although both parents' and children's ER neurocircuitry simultaneously affect how they interact with one another, neuroimaging studies of parent-child relationships typically include only one member of the dyad in brain imaging procedures. The current study examined brain activation related to parenting and ER in parent-adolescent dyads during concurrent fMRI scanning with a novel task - the Testing Emotional Attunement and Mutuality (TEAM) task. The TEAM task includes feedback trials indicating the other dyad member made an error, resulting in a monetary loss for both participants. Results indicate that positive parenting practices as reported by the adolescent were positively correlated with parents' hemodynamic activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a region related to empathy, during these error trials. Additionally, during feedback conditions both parents and adolescents exhibited fMRI activation in ER-related regions, including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, fusiform gyrus, thalamus, caudate, precuneus, and superior parietal lobule. Adolescents had higher left amygdala activation than parents during the feedback condition. These findings demonstrate the utility of dyadic fMRI scanning for investigating relational processes, particularly in the parent-child relationship.
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- Kara L. Kerr
- Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University–Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University–Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
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- Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Johnson & Johnson, Inc., La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University–Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
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DeVille DC, Whalen D, Breslin FJ, Morris AS, Khalsa SS, Paulus MP, Barch DM. Prevalence and Family-Related Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, and Self-injury in Children Aged 9 to 10 Years. JAMA Netw Open 2020; 3:e1920956. [PMID: 32031652 PMCID: PMC7261143 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.20956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
IMPORTANCE Although suicide is a leading cause of death for children in the United States, and the rate of suicide in childhood has steadily increased, little is known about suicidal ideation and behaviors in children. OBJECTIVE To assess the overall prevalence of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and nonsuicidal self-injury, as well as family-related factors associated with suicidality and self-injury among preadolescent children. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional study using retrospective analysis of the baseline sample from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. This multicenter investigation used an epidemiologically informed school-based recruitment strategy, with consideration of the demographic composition of the 21 ABCD sites and the United States as a whole. The sample included children aged 9 to 10 years and their caregivers. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Lifetime suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and nonsuicidal self-injury as reported by children and their caregivers in a computerized version of the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia. RESULTS A total of 11 814 children aged 9 to 10 years (47.8% girls; 52.0% white) and their caregivers were included. After poststratification sociodemographic weighting, the approximate prevalence rates were 6.4% (95% CI, 5.7%-7.3%) for lifetime history of passive suicidal ideation; 4.4% (95% CI, 3.9%-5.0%) for nonspecific active suicidal ideation; 2.4% (95% CI, 2.1%-2.7%) for active ideation with method, intent, or plan; 1.3% (95% CI, 1.0%-1.6%) for suicide attempts; and 9.1% (95% CI, 8.1-10.3) for nonsuicidal self-injury. After covarying by sex, family history, internalizing and externalizing problems, and relevant psychosocial variables, high family conflict was significantly associated with suicidal ideation (odds ratio [OR], 1.12; 95% CI, 1.07-1.16) and nonsuicidal self-injury (OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.05-1.14), and low parental monitoring was significantly associated with ideation (OR, 0.97; 95% CI, 0.95-0.98), attempts (OR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.86-0.97), and nonsuicidal self-injury (OR, 0.95; 95% CI, 0.93-0.98); these findings were consistent after internal replication. Most of children's reports of suicidality and self-injury were either unknown or not reported by their caregivers. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE This study demonstrates the association of family factors, including high family conflict and low parental monitoring, with suicidality and self-injury in children. Future research and ongoing prevention and intervention efforts may benefit from the examination of family factors.
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- Danielle C DeVille
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Department of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Department of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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Cosgrove KT, Kerr KL, Aupperle RL, Ratliff EL, DeVille DC, Silk JS, Burrows K, Moore AJ, Antonacci C, Misaki M, Tapert SF, Bodurka J, Simmons WK, Morris AS. Corrigendum to "Always on my mind: Cross-brain associations of mental health symptoms during simultaneous parent-child scanning" [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 40 (December) (2019) 100729]. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2019; 41:100751. [PMID: 31999561 PMCID: PMC6994623 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Kelly T Cosgrove
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK, 74104, United States.
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- Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74106, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States; School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK, 74104, United States
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- Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74106, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK, 74104, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States
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- School of Medicine, University of California - San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States; Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 110 W. Boyd, Norman, OK, 73019, United States
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- Janssen Research & Development, 3210 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CA, 92121, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74136, United States; Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK, 74106, United States
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Cosgrove KT, Kerr KL, Aupperle RL, Ratliff EL, DeVille DC, Silk JS, Burrows K, Moore AJ, Antonacci C, Misaki M, Tapert SF, Bodurka J, Simmons WK, Morris AS. Always on my mind: Cross-brain associations of mental health symptoms during simultaneous parent-child scanning. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2019; 40:100729. [PMID: 31766006 PMCID: PMC6934088 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2019] [Revised: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 11/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
How parents manifest symptoms of anxiety or depression may affect how children learn to modulate their own distress, thereby influencing the children's risk for developing an anxiety or mood disorder. Conversely, children's mental health symptoms may impact parents' experiences of negative emotions. Therefore, mental health symptoms can have bidirectional effects in parent-child relationships, particularly during moments of distress or frustration (e.g., when a parent or child makes a costly mistake). The present study used simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of parent-adolescent dyads to examine how brain activity when responding to each other's costly errors (i.e., dyadic error processing) may be associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression. While undergoing simultaneous fMRI scans, healthy dyads completed a task involving feigned errors that indicated their family member made a costly mistake. Inter-brain, random-effects multivariate modeling revealed that parents who exhibited decreased medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex activation when viewing their child's costly error response had children with more symptoms of depression and anxiety. Adolescents with increased anterior insula activation when viewing a costly error made by their parent had more anxious parents. These results reveal cross-brain associations between mental health symptomatology and brain activity during parent-child dyadic error processing.
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- Kelly T Cosgrove
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK 74104, United States.
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- Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK 74106, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States; School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK 74104, United States
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- Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK 74106, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK 74104, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States
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- School of Medicine, University of California - San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States; Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 110 W. Boyd, Norman, OK 73019, United States
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- Janssen Research & Development, 3210 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CA 92121, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136, United States; Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK 74106, United States
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DeVille DC, Kerr KL, Avery JA, Burrows K, Bodurka J, Feinstein JS, Khalsa SS, Paulus MP, Simmons WK. The Neural Bases of Interoceptive Encoding and Recall in Healthy Adults and Adults With Depression. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 2018; 3:546-554. [PMID: 29724684 PMCID: PMC6415753 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2017] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Theoretical models assert that the brain's interoceptive network links external stimuli with their interoceptive consequences, thereby supporting later recall of these associations to guide the selection of healthy behaviors. If these accounts are correct, previously reported interoceptive abnormalities in major depressive disorder (MDD) should lead to altered recall of associations between external stimuli and their interoceptive (somatic) consequences. To date, the processes underlying interoceptive recall have never been experimentally investigated. METHODS We designed and implemented the Interoceptive Encoding and Recall task to compare interoceptive and exteroceptive recall among subjects with MDD (n = 24) and healthy comparison subjects (n = 21). During the encoding phase, subjects learned to pair neutral visual cues (geometric shapes) with aversive interoceptive and exteroceptive stimuli. Later, while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging, subjects were prompted to recall the stimulus associated with each shape. RESULTS Interoceptive recall, relative to exteroceptive recall, was associated with bilateral mid-to-posterior insula activation. Relative to the healthy control participants, participants with depression exhibited marked hypoactivation of the right dorsal mid-insula during interoceptive recall. CONCLUSIONS In healthy control subjects, simply recalling a stimulus associated with a previous interoceptive challenge activated a key region in the brain's interoceptive network. Although previous research has linked MDD with aberrant processing of interoceptive stimuli, the current study is the first to demonstrate that individuals with MDD exhibit decreased insula activity while recalling interoceptive memories. It is possible that insula hypoactivation during interoceptive recall may affect the representation of prior interoceptive experiences in ways that contribute to depressive symptomology and the relationship between depression and systemic health.
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- Danielle C DeVille
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Obesity results from persistent failure by the brain to balance food intake with energy needs, resulting in a state of chronic energy surplus. Although there are many factors that predispose individuals to weight gain and obesity, the current review focuses on two ways eating behavior may be influenced by sensitivity to interoceptive signals of hunger, satiety, and metabolic energy reserves. First, obesity may be related to hypersensitivity to interoceptive signals of hunger, leading to positive alliesthesia for food cues that undermine attempts to change unhealthy eating behaviors. Second, overeating and obesity may arise from an inability to accurately detect interoceptive signals of satiety and positive energy balance. The findings reviewed herein demonstrate that obesity may be related to altered interoception, and warrant the continued development of novel obesity interventions aimed at promoting interoceptive awareness.
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- W Kyle Simmons
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 South Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136-3326, United States; School of Community Medicine, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States.
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 South Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136-3326, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
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