Title |
Reward and loss anticipation in panic disorder: An fMRI study
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Published in |
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging Section, November 2017
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DOI | 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.11.005 |
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Authors |
Dada Held-Poschardt, Philipp Sterzer, Florian Schlagenhauf, Corinna Pehrs, Andre Wittmann, Meline Stoy, Claudia Hägele, Brian Knutson, Andreas Heinz, Andreas Ströhle |
Abstract |
Anticipatory anxiety and harm avoidance are essential features of panic disorder (PD) and may involve deficits in the reward system of the brain, in particular in the ventral striatum. While neuroimaging studies on PD have focused on fearful and negative affective stimulus processing, no investigations have directly addressed deficits in reward and loss anticipation. To determine whether the ventral striatum shows abnormal neural activity in PD patients during anticipation of loss or gain, an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment using a monetary incentive delay task was employed in 10 patients with PD and 10 healthy controls. A repeated-measures ANOVA to identify effects of group (PD vs. Control) and condition (anticipation of loss vs. gain vs. neutral outcome) revealed that patients with PD showed significantly reduced bilateral ventral striatal activation during reward anticipation but increased activity during loss anticipation. Within the patient group, the degree of activation in the ventral striatum during loss-anticipation was positively correlated with harm avoidance and negatively correlated with novelty seeking. These findings suggest that behavioural impairments in panic disorder may be related to abnormal neural processing of motivational cues. |
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