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Influence of Familial Risk for Depression on Cortico-Limbic Connectivity During Implicit Emotional Processing

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Title
Influence of Familial Risk for Depression on Cortico-Limbic Connectivity During Implicit Emotional Processing
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Neuropsychopharmacology, March 2017
DOI 10.1038/npp.2017.59
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Carolin Wackerhagen, Torsten Wüstenberg, Sebastian Mohnke, Susanne Erk, Ilya M Veer, Johann D Kruschwitz, Maria Garbusow, Lydia Romund, Kristina Otto, Janina I Schweiger, Heike Tost, Andreas Heinz, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Henrik Walter, Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth

Abstract

Imbalances in cortico-limbic activity and functional connectivity (FC) supposedly underlie biased emotional processing and present putative intermediate phenotypes (IPs) for major depressive disorder (MDD). To prove the validity of these IPs, we assessed them in familial risk during implicit emotional processing. To provide comparable data to previous studies and additionally elucidate the implications of altered functional connectivity, amygdala FC was assessed across and between task conditions. In 70 healthy first-degree relatives of MDD patients and 70 controls, brain activity and seed-based amygdala FC were assessed during an angry and fearful faces matching task for fMRI. Comparisons of amygdala FC across and between conditions were performed using generalized psychophysiological interactions. Associations with self-reported negative affect (NA) were explored post-hoc. Groups did not differ in brain activation. In relatives, amygdala FC across conditions was decreased with superior and medial frontal gyrus (SFG, MFG) and increased with pgACC and subgenual ACC. NA was inversely correlated with amygdala FC with MFG, pgACC and their interaction in relatives. Relatives showed aberrant condition-dependent modulations of amygdala FC with visual cortex, thalamus and orbitofrontal cortex. Our results do not support imbalanced cortico-limbic activity as IP for MDD. Diminished amygdala-dorsomedial prefrontal FC in relatives might indicate insufficient regulatory capacity, which appears to be compensated by ventromedial prefrontal regions. Differential task-dependent modulations of amygdala FC are discussed as a stronger involvement of automatic instead of voluntary emotional processing pathways. Reliability and etiological implications of these results should be investigated in future studies including longitudinal designs and patient-risk-control comparisons.Neuropsychopharmacology accepted article preview online, 15 March 2017. doi:10.1038/npp.2017.59.

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Unknown 74 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 22%
Student > Master 10 14%
Researcher 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 19 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 19 26%
Neuroscience 12 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 25 34%
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