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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Michael Vaninetti, Mike Lim, Aladdin Khalaf, Valerie Metzger-Smith, Matthew Flowers, Alphonsa Kunnel, Eric Yang, David Song, Lisa Lin, Alice Tsai, Roland Lee, Shahrokh Golshan, Albert Leung
Summary: rTMS treatment in MTBI-HA patients significantly reduces headache frequency and intensity, while increasing activity in the left prefrontal cortex, enhancing the regulatory function against headaches.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Wen Xiao, Xiaoqi Zheng, Yuejia Luo, Jiaxin Peng
Summary: This study examined the effects of reward associative learning and the traditional threat-avoidance ABM paradigm on anxiety and attentional bias. The results showed that reward training reduced both general anxiety and attentional bias, while traditional ABM training only reduced anxiety when combined with reward training.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Karim Ibrahim, Carla Kalvin, Simon Morand-Beaulieu, George He, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Gregory McCarthy, Denis G. Sukhodolsky
Summary: Children with aggressive behavior exhibit reduced amygdala connectivity during face emotion processing, which is moderated by social impairment. The association between reduced amygdala-ventrolateral PFC connectivity and severity of aggression is influenced by social deficits in these children. Amygdala reactivity to fearful faces is not associated with aggressive behavior severity in children with social impairments.
Review
Neurosciences
Guo Li, Xueli Cai, Qian Yang, Qian Cui, Lihui Huang, Xiujuan Jing, Yifeng Wang
Summary: Negative attentional bias is a characteristic of depression. Attentional bias modification training (ABMT) has shown promise in alleviating depressive symptoms, but its effectiveness varies. ABMT programs may work by regulating self-related rumination or two subcomponents of attentional bias: facilitated attention and impaired attentional disengagement. The suboptimal design of training procedures, mixed effects of participants' characteristics, and the unclear relationship between attentional bias and depression are reasons for the mixed results. ABMT holds promise for alleviating depressive symptoms, but improvements in training procedures are needed for stable effects.
CNS NEUROSCIENCE & THERAPEUTICS
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Carissa L. Philippi, Katie Leutzinger, Sally Pessin, Alexis Cassani, Olivia Mikel, Erin C. Walsh, Roxanne M. Hoks, Rasmus M. Birn, Heather C. Abercrombie
Summary: This study investigated the association between rumination subtypes and BOLD signal variability in depression, and found that higher levels of rumination were associated with lower prefrontal neural signal variability. This relationship was also related to depression history.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Emilio A. Valadez, Daniel S. Pine, Nathan A. Fox, Yair Bar-Haim
Summary: Anxiety is associated with increased attention to threat. This review examines the evidence for this association, discusses the neurobiology of anxiety-related differences in attention to threat, explores the developmental origin of attention bias, and investigates efforts to apply this research to clinical intervention. Future directions include improving the analysis of threat-processing brain networks, clarifying the role of cognitive control in attention bias development, and conducting larger clinical trials to examine treatment response factors.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
A. C. Rosen, J. V. Bhat, V. A. Cardenas, T. J. Ehrlich, A. M. Horwege, D. H. Mathalon, B. J. Roach, G. H. Glover, B. W. Badran, S. D. Forman, M. S. George, M. E. Thase, D. Yurgelun-Todd, M. E. Sughrue, S. P. Doyen, P. J. Nicholas, J. C. Scott, L. Tian, J. A. Yesavage
Summary: This study analyzed imaging data from a failed clinical trial of rTMS in Veterans to investigate the association between treatment response and rTMS coil location. Findings revealed that the accuracy in targeting the region within DLPFC negatively correlated with the subgenual cingulate is related to clinical response to rTMS in treatment resistant major depression, providing evidence for a neuro-functionally informed rTMS therapy target in Veterans.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Soojung Baek, SoSeo Ha, Jang-Han Lee
Summary: This study verifies the effectiveness of attentional bias modification (ABM) in reducing attentional bias related to depression and emotional reactivity to stress. By training participants to disengage from depression-relevant stimuli and focus on more positive stimuli, the study found a significant decrease in attention to negative affective stimuli and negative emotional reactivity to stress. However, it suggests that a longer duration of ABM application is needed to increase attention to positive affective stimuli.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Susan Kang, Roman Osinsky
Summary: This study aimed to address methodological challenges in the field of attentional bias manipulation. By exploring reward-based contingencies and neurophysiological measures, the study found the presence of attentional bias in a healthy sample, but this effect disappeared in the explicit instruction group. The reliabilities of the main dependent variables varied, making the results preliminary.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mariana Pino, Victor Pardo, Ronald Ruiz, Gabriel Gonzalez, Mario Alfredo Parra
Summary: Adolescent offenders exhibit cognitive difficulties in emotional processing, including attentional bias towards threat and atypical responses to emotional targets. These effects are influenced by frontal lobe functions rather than sociodemographic variables or general cognitive abilities.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Benjamin A. Parris, Michael G. Wadsley, Gizem Arabaci, Nabil Hasshim, Maria Augustinova, Ludovic Ferrand
Summary: This study investigated the impact of rTMS on left DLPFC on various forms of conflict present in the Stroop task. The results showed that left DLPFC stimulation did not modify task conflict, response, semantic, or overall conflict, while still reducing reaction times. This suggests that the left DLPFC may not play a significant role in modifying Stroop interference, raising questions about alternative accounts of its role in task performance.
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Amanda Elton, Monica L. Faulkner, Donita L. Robinson, Charlotte A. Boettiger
Summary: This study found that dopamine plays a significant role in individuals' attentional bias towards alcohol-related cues, with depletion of central dopamine levels in alcohol drinkers affecting this bias through behavioral changes and altered frontolimbic circuitry function. Effects were more pronounced among heavy drinkers, indicating specific dopamine-modulated functional connections between frontal, limbic, striatal, and brainstem regions mediate general reward attentional bias versus alcohol attentional bias.
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Aurelia Gay, Julien Cabe, Ingrid De Chazeron, Celine Lambert, Maxime Defour, Vikesh Bhoowabul, Thomas Charpeaud, Aurore Tremey, Pierre-Michel Llorca, Bruno Pereira, Georges Brousse
Summary: This meta-analysis examines the therapeutic potential of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on addiction by targeting craving. The results suggest that active rTMS has a small effect in reducing craving, particularly in stimulant and behavioral addiction. No significant differences were found in the different combinations of target and frequency of stimulation, but a correlation between number of sessions and craving reduction was observed.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Natalia Trujillo, Diana Gomez, Sandra Trujillo, Jose David Lopez, Agustin Ibanez, Mario A. Parra
Summary: Threatening stimuli are more effective in capturing attention compared to neutral stimuli, leading to faster and more accurate responses when presented as task targets. However, they do not significantly affect performance when presented as distractors. The observed spatiotemporal dynamics suggest that the attentional disruption caused by threatening flankers reflects a depletion of neural resources.
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Patrizia Pezzoli, Anastasios Ziogas, Michael C. Seto, Natalia Jaworska, Andreas Mokros, Paul Fedoroff, Pekka Santtila
Summary: Individuals with pedophilic disorder (PD) may experience personal and interpersonal difficulties, posing a risk of sexually offending against children. This study aimed to investigate the effects of increasing prefrontal activity on reducing attention bias in individuals with PD. Results showed that active tDCS reduced the biases, but did not affect attention responses to child and adult images.
Article
Neurosciences
Wei Liu, Yingjie Shi, James N. Cousins, Nils Kohn, Guillen Fernandez
Summary: Research indicates that successfully remembered events are associated with distinct activation patterns in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex, while similar connectivity patterns between events are linked to memory formation and retention of order. Different activation patterns represent neural segmentation of events, while similar connectivity patterns encode context information to integrate events into a narrative.
Article
Substance Abuse
Elske Salemink, Mike Rinck, Eni Becker, Reinout W. Wiers, Johannes Lindenmeyer
Summary: Results of a large-scale randomized controlled trial on alcohol use disorder (AUD) inpatients showed that adding Approach bias modification (ApBM) training to standard care led to higher success rates at the 1-year follow-up. Importantly, the presence of comorbid anxiety/depressive disorders moderated the effects of ApBM, with greater benefits seen in patients with such comorbidity compared to those without.
PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Huan Wang, Judith M. C. Leeuwen, Lycia D. Voogd, Robbert-Jan Verkes, Benno Roozendaal, Guillen Fernandez, Erno J. Hermans
Summary: Our study found that in a healthy sample, the effects of mild early-life stress on corticolimbic circuits only become apparent when exposed to an acute stressor, and may be buffered by adaptations in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function. These findings might reveal a potential mechanism whereby even mild early-life stress could confer vulnerability to exposure to stressors later in adulthood.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Anna L. Dapprich, Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, Eni S. Becker, Mike Rinck
Summary: Research has identified three different types of smiles - the reward, affiliation and dominance smile - which serve expressions of happiness, connectedness, and superiority, respectively. Examining their explicit and implicit evaluations by considering a perceivers' level of social anxiety and psychopathy may enhance our understanding of these smiles' theorised meanings, and their role in problematic social behaviour. Results indicated that all smiles were explicitly evaluated as positive, with no differences in implicit evaluations between the smile types. Social anxiety was not associated with either explicit or implicit smile evaluations, while callous-unemotional (CU) traits were negatively associated with explicit evaluations of reward and dominance smiles. These findings support the assumptions of non-biased explicit information processing in social anxiety, and flattened emotional sensitivity in CU-traits.
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Anna L. Dapprich, Wolf-Gero Lange, Maaike Cima, Eni S. Becker
Summary: This study validated an Ambiguous Social Scenario Task (ASST) to assess socially anxious and socially callous interpretations, showing both convergent and discriminant validity between these interpretations. Results also indicated a significant positive correlation between self-reported social anxiety and both socially anxious and callous interpretations.
COGNITIVE THERAPY AND RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Jingyuan Ren, Furong Huang, Chuanji Gao, Jarrod Gott, Sarah F. Schoch, Shaozheng Qin, Martin Dresler, Jing Luo
Summary: This study investigated the impact of novel stimuli on the left and right medial temporal lobes, revealing different activations in response to novel designs of different usefulness. The findings suggest that the left medial temporal lobe is predominantly involved in usefulness processing, while the right medial temporal lobe is predominantly involved in novelty processing. Additionally, the left parahippocampal gyrus showed stronger connectivity with the anterior cingulate cortex when responding to novel useless designs, while the right parahippocampal gyrus showed stronger connectivity with the amygdala, midbrain, and hippocampus.
Editorial Material
Cell Biology
Martin Dresler, Eva Buddeberg, Ulrike Endesfelder, Jan Haaker, Christian Hof, Robert Kretschmer, Dirk Pflueger, Fabian Schmidt
IMMUNOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Csenge G. Horvath, Orsolya Szalardy, Peter P. Ujma, Peter Simor, Ferenc Gombos, Ilona Kovacs, Martin Dresler, Robert Bodizs
Summary: Understanding the dynamics of human sleep features during the course of sleep is crucial for sleep regulation. By analyzing sleep records of 251 healthy human subjects, this study reveals the changes in spectral slopes and intercepts during consecutive sleep cycles, which are significant predictors of sleep intensity. The findings suggest that scale-free and oscillatory measures of sleep EEG can provide composite measures of sleep dynamics and offer new insights into sleep regulatory processes.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sofia Tzioridou, Martin Dresler, Kristian Sandberg, Erik M. Mueller
Summary: This study found an association between mindfulness and nightmares, with mindful acceptance showing a stronger relationship with nightmare frequency and distress. Individuals with high levels of meditation expertise and practice of lucid dream induction techniques reported lower nightmare frequency. In frequent lucid dreamers, there was a positive correlation between lucid dreaming frequency and mindfulness.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Bence Schneider, Orsolya Szalardy, Peter P. Ujma, Peter Simor, Ferenc Gombos, Ilona Kovacs, Martin Dresler, Robert Bodizs
Summary: The power spectra of sleep electroencephalograms (EEG) consist of both a decaying power-law and spectral peaks. Traditional methods ignore this structure and may misrepresent the EEG spectra. The FOOOF method was used to separate and parameterize the components, revealing sleep stage sensitivity and potential indicators of sleep states.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROINFORMATICS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Jingyuan Ren, Boris N. N. Konrad, Isabella C. C. Wagner, Martin Dresler
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Clinical Neurology
Somayeh Ataei, Martin Dresler, Sarah F. Schoch
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani, Soha Farboud, Hong-Viet V. Ngo, Jules Schneider, Frederik D. Weber, Lucia M. Talamini, Martin Dresler
Summary: Sleep is crucial for our physical and mental well-being, and slow oscillations in the brain play a significant role in sleep functions. By utilizing closed-loop auditory stimulation, researchers can investigate the causal relationship between slow oscillations and sleep functions.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Somayeh Ataei, Eni Simo, Mathijs Bergers, Sarah F. Schoch, Nikolai Axmacher, Martin Dresler
Summary: This review provides a comprehensive overview of the history of sleep learning research conducted in humans, synthesizing the findings from 51 research papers. The results suggest that simpler forms of learning, such as habituation and conditioning, may be possible during sleep, while the findings for more complex, applied learning are more divergent. Behavioral evidence for the transfer of new knowledge to wake remains inconclusive, although neural markers often indicate processing and learning during sleep.
SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Neuroimaging
Leonore Bovy, Frederik D. Weber, Indira Tendolkar, Guillen Fernandez, Michael Czisch, Axel Steiger, Marcel Zeising, Martin Dresler
Summary: Disturbances in non-REM sleep in patients with major depressive disorder may be more subtle than previously reported, and these alterations may be influenced by medication intake and age.
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2022)
