Article
Behavioral Sciences
Maria Stein, Leonie Steiner, Werner Fey, Frauke Conring, Kathryn Rieger, Andrea Federspiel, Franz Moggi
Summary: The study used a new alcohol-related Go/NoGo task to investigate how exposure to alcohol-related cues affects inhibitory control in AUD patients. The findings suggest that AUD patients recruit enhanced neuronal resources for successful inhibition, with hyperactivation observed in certain regions, especially in an alcohol-related context. The preliminary results imply that exposure to alcohol-related cues intensifies the demand on inhibitory system in recently abstinent patients with AUD.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Fanlu Jia
Summary: Understanding how learning a second language impacts the brain has been a significant concern in neuroscience. Previous studies have consistently shown plastic changes in brain regions related to executive control in bilinguals who speak different languages at different ages. This study found that bilinguals with higher proficiency in their second language performed better in a cognitive control task, and this higher proficiency was associated with weaker activation of brain regions involved in general cognitive control. These findings suggest that learning a second language may lead to more automatic and efficient processing in inhibitory control tasks.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Soroush Fazel, Abdol-Hossein Vahabie, Farhad Farkhondeh Tale Navi, Soomaayeh Heysieattalab
Summary: Social rank can influence inhibitory control, with high-rank individuals requiring it to regulate dominant behavior and low-rank individuals requiring it to regulate emotional reactions or avoid submissive behaviors. Social status can also affect the neural mechanisms underlying inhibitory control, leading to differences in abilities and strategies based on perceived rank.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Xinwei Li, Weijian Li, Haide Chen, Ningmeng Cao, Boqiang Zhao
Summary: Reduced inhibitory control is more pronounced in addicts during substance-related cue exposure, but cigarette-specific disgust induced by smoking warning images can alleviate this negative effect. The study found that smoking-related background impairs smokers' inhibitory control, but cigarette-specific disgust helps improve their performance. These results highlight the important role of cigarette-specific disgust in enhancing smokers' inhibitory control towards smoking-related cues.
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Rahel Rabi, Ricky Chow, Shahier Paracha, Lynn Hasher, Sandra Gardner, Nicole D. Anderson, Claude Alain
Summary: The study investigated the effects of aging and time of day (TOD) on inhibitory processing using electrophysiological measures. The results showed that both younger and older adults displayed greater modulation of certain neural correlates during non-optimal TOD, indicating a synchrony effect. Age-related reductions in inhibitory efficiency were also observed during off-peak test times. These findings highlight the importance of considering circadian typology in research studies and the sensitivity of electrophysiological measures in detecting time effects.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Shangwu Liu, Runhong Zhang
Summary: The purpose of this study was to observe whether aerobic exercise can alleviate the impairment of cognitive control ability in college students by sleep deprivation. The results showed that aerobic exercise can improve response ability and blood 5-ht content, and alleviate the cognitive control impairment caused by sleep deprivation.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kota Suzuki
Summary: Sequential congruency effects were observed in event-related potential (ERP) components, with Nogo-N1 reduced by incongruent stimuli and Nogo-N2 amplitudes larger for cI than iI and iC than cC. The Go-N2 was not modulated by sequential effects, indicating it is associated with selection processing. Additionally, the Go-P3 and Nogo-P3 amplitudes were largest for cI, suggesting a relationship between ERP component timing and interaction effects.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Judit Pekar, Wiebke Hofmann, Balazs Knakker, Sascha Tamm, Annette Kinder
Summary: The interaction between physical and numerical size has been examined in the numerical Stroop task, but the psychological processes contributing to this interaction are still not entirely clear. This study investigates the role of inhibition in the interaction by introducing a novel paradigm that elicits inhibition-related event-related potential components. The results suggest that interference effects are likely resolved by inhibitory processes and facilitatory effects are affected by different cognitive control processes required by go versus nogo trials.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Laura A. Berner, Katia M. Harle, Alan N. Simmons, Angela Yu, Martin P. Paulus, Amanda Bischoff-Grethe, Christina E. Wierenga, Ursula F. Bailer, Walter H. Kaye
Summary: This study found that metabolic state has an impact on the neurocomputational processes underlying bulimia nervosa. Women remitted from bulimia nervosa who were in a fed state showed abnormal neural activation in control-related tasks. This finding may help explain why individuals with bulimia nervosa have difficulties stopping eating after it begins.
MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Marion Criaud, Jean-Luc Anton, Bruno Nazarian, Marieke Longcamp, Elise Metereau, Philippe Boulinguez, Benedicte Ballanger
Summary: The basal ganglia are involved in regulating motor behavior through tonic and phasic inhibitory mechanisms, with recent psychological research focusing on proactive mechanisms of control. Further research is needed to understand the role of the basal ganglia in the interplay between proactive and reactive control mechanisms.
Article
Neurosciences
Yi-Bing Guo, Qing Jiao, Xiao-Tong Zhang, Qian Xiao, Zhou Wu, Wei-Fang Cao, Dong Cui, Guang-Hui Yu, Ru-Hai Dou, Lin-Yan Su, Guang-Ming Lu
Summary: This study investigated the fractal characteristics of brain blood oxygen level-dependent signals in pediatric bipolar disorder patients when responding to external emotional stimuli. The findings showed that patients exhibited overactivation, increased self-similarity, and decreased complexity during an emotional task compared to healthy controls. These results provide evidence of altered emotional modulation of cognitive control in pediatric bipolar disorder patients.
Article
Neurosciences
Trung Van Nguyen, Che-Yi Hsu, Satish Jaiswal, Neil G. Muggleton, Wei-Kuang Liang, Chi-Hung Juan
Summary: This study used force measurement and a modified version of the stop-signal task to investigate motor inhibition processing, finding that non-canceled force and force rate increased with stop-signal delay. Motor responses were impacted by delayed presentation of novel/intriguing stimuli, with larger LRP amplitudes indicating the influence of novel stimuli on central motor processing.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biology
Macha Dubuson, Xavier Noel, Charles Kornreich, Catherine Hanak, Melanie Saeremans, Salvatore Campanella
Summary: This study found that there may be slight differences in attentional biases towards addiction-related cues between patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and gambling disorder (GD). AUD patients showed poorer inhibitory performance overall, but performed relatively well in the alcohol-related context. GD patients exhibited specific inhibitory deficits in the game-related context. These findings have important implications for clinical treatment.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Peng Zhang, Chuancai Sun, Zhongqi Liu, Qianxiang Zhou
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of insufficient sleep on brain information transmission, finding that sleep deprivation significantly decreased phase-amplitude coupling between frequency bands in the brain, which was correlated with inhibitory control performance.
Article
Neurosciences
Harm J. van Der Horn, Andrew B. Dodd, Tracey V. Wick, Cidney R. Robertson-Benta, Jessica R. Mcquaid, Anne K. Hittson, Josef M. Ling, Vadim Zotev, Sephira G. Ryman, Erik B. Erhardt, John P. Phillips, Richard A. Campbell, Robert E. Sapien, Andrew R. Mayer
Summary: There is an increasing amount of research suggesting that pediatric mild traumatic brain injury (pmTBI) may lead to cerebral pathophysiological processes that extend beyond the usual clinical recovery timeline. This study used fMRI to examine neural processes related to cognitive control in 181 pmTBI patients at sub-acute and early chronic stages post-injury. The results showed alterations in neural functioning during cognitive control up to 4 months post-injury, regardless of clinical recovery.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Heiko Graf, Kathrin Malejko, Coraline Danielle Metzger, Martin Walter, Georg Groen, Birgit Abler
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Joana Straub, Rebecca Brown, Kathrin Malejko, Martina Bonenberger, Georg Groen, Paul L. Plener, Birgit Abler
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Kathrin Malejko, Stefan Hafner, Paul L. Plener, Martina Bonenberger, Georg Groen, Birgit Abler, Heiko Graf
Summary: Neuroimaging study found enhanced neural activity in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and pre-supplementary motor area in young female patients with Major Depression disorder (MD) during error processing, suggesting a potential neural signature of increased sensitivity to negative feedback in MD.
EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Jennifer Spohrs, Martin Ulrich, Georg Groen, Michael Prost, Paul Lukas Plener, Joerg Michael Fegert, Laura Bindila, Birgit Abler
Summary: Anxiety- and trauma-related disorders are severe illnesses with high prevalence, and the endocannabinoid system (ECS) has become a focus in psychopharmacological research. Studies show anxiolytic effects of endocannabinoids in rodent models, but research in humans remains scarce. Through research on healthy males, it was found that AC-heterozygotes of the SNP rs324420 have higher AEA levels, potentially related to fear extinction learning.
TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Markus Kiefer, Eun-Jin Sim, Sabrina Heil, Rebecca Brown, Barbel Herrnberger, Manfred Spitzer, Georg Groen
Summary: Relational bullying in schools, especially social exclusion, can have severe negative health impacts such as depression. This study used MR-based perfusion imaging to investigate the neural signatures of social exclusion and found that the experience of being bullied sensitizes the neural substrate relevant for processing social exclusion. Positive relationship between exclusion-specific signal increase and individually different extents of prior bullying experience was observed in specific brain areas for the first time.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Jennifer Spohrs, Martin Ulrich, Georg Groen, Paul L. Plener, Birgit Abler
Summary: The study found that the FAAH C385A allele can influence brain neural activation and modulate extinction memory recall. Furthermore, the endocannabinoid system, particularly AEA, plays a modulatory role in the extinction of aversive memory.
EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Lisa Eberhardt, Georg Groen, Martin Ulrich, Anke Huckauf, Christoph Strauch
Summary: A case study revealed the ability of a patient to change pupil size on command, with MRI imaging showing the involvement of specific brain regions in generating voluntary impulses. Various indirect mechanisms were tested but no conclusive results were found, suggesting direct voluntary control of pupil size in this particular case.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Hamed Ekhtiari, Peyman Ghobadi-Azbari, Axel Thielscher, Andrea Antal, Lucia M. Li, A. Duke Shereen, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, Daniel Keeser, Til Ole Bergmann, Asif Jamil, Ines R. Violante, Jorge Almeida, Marcus Meinzer, Hartwig R. Siebner, Adam J. Woods, Charlotte J. Stagg, Rany Abend, Daria Antonenko, Tibor Auer, Marc Bachinger, Chris Baeken, Helen C. Barron, Henry W. Chase, Jenny Crinion, Abhishek Datta, Matthew H. Davis, Mohsen Ebrahimi, Zeinab Esmaeilpour, Brian Falcone, Valentina Fiori, Iman Ghodratitoostani, Gadi Gilam, Roland H. Grabner, Joel D. Greenspan, Georg Groen, Gesa Hartwigsen, Tobias U. Hauser, Christoph S. Herrmann, Chi-Hung Juan, Bart Krekelberg, Stephanie Lefebvre, Sook-Lei Liew, Kristoffer H. Madsen, Rasoul Mahdavifar-Khayati, Nastaran Malmir, Paola Marangolo, Andrew K. Martin, Timothy J. Meeker, Hossein Mohaddes Ardabili, Marius Moisa, Davide Momi, Beni Mulyana, Alexander Opitz, Natasza Orlov, Patrick Ragert, Christian C. Ruff, Giulio Ruffini, Michaela Ruttorf, Arshiya Sangchooli, Klaus Schellhorn, Gottfried Schlaug, Bernhard Sehm, Ghazaleh Soleimani, Hosna Tavakoli, Benjamin Thompson, Dagmar Timmann, Aki Tsuchiyagaito, Martin Ulrich, Johannes Vosskuhl, Christiane A. Weinrich, Mehran Zare-Bidoky, Xiaochu Zhang, Benedikt Zoefel, Michael A. Nitsche, Marom Bikson
Summary: This research introduces a method of combining transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) and functional MRI (fMRI) to study brain functions, and provides a checklist for reporting the methodological details of concurrent tES-fMRI studies. The checklist aims to enhance methodological rigor, transparency, and reproducibility in future studies. The research was conducted through a two-phase Delphi consensus process, involving a steering committee and expert panelists, and resulted in a checklist with essential items and additional recommendations.
Article
Neurosciences
Markus Koelle, Sarah Mackert, Katharina Heckel, Alexandra Philipsen, Martin Ulrich, Georg Groen
Summary: This study found an association between RTV and white matter structural properties of the corticothalamic tract in adults with ADHD, which was not observed in healthy controls.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Biology
Martin Ulrich, Katharina Heckel, Markus Koelle, Georg Groen
Summary: This study investigated the effects of methylphenidate on brain functional connectivity in responders and non-responders of ADHD treatment. Using machine learning techniques, patients were categorized into responders and non-responders based on clinical symptoms. The results showed that only responders exhibited significant changes in functional connectivity, indicating that methylphenidate may modulate the putamen for successful ADHD treatment.
Article
Neurosciences
Martin Ulrich, Filip Niemann, Georg Groen
Summary: The emergence of flow is a situation of high salience where externally oriented attention is enhanced, while internally oriented cognition is decreased. The right anterior insula plays a role in regulating the flow condition, but does not mediate the most typical flow-associated activation patterns.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Kathrin Malejko, Stefan Hafner, Rebecca C. Brown, Paul L. Plener, Georg Groen, Heiko Graf, Birgit Abler
Summary: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a common psychiatric symptom in adolescents and young adults, associated with impulsivity and dysfunctional response inhibition. Investigating the neurobiological features of NSSI can provide insight into its underlying mechanisms.
Article
Neurosciences
Martin Ulrich, Alexander Rueger, Verena Durner, Georg Groen, Heiko Graf
Summary: Sexually charged stimuli dominate in engaging the brain's reward structures, while multiple brain regions are activated in processing both primary and secondary rewards. However, the effects of different stimuli are weaker in reward expectation and prediction error.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Franz Marxreiter, Vera Lambrecht, Angelika Mennecke, Jannis Hanspach, Jelena Jukic, Martin Regensburger, Juergen Herrler, Alexander German, Jan Kassubek, Georg Groen, Hans-Peter Mueller, Frederik B. Laun, Arnd Doerfler, Juergen Winkler, Manuel A. Schmidt
Summary: Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) on high-field MRI shows excellent diagnostic accuracy in the differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). Particularly, putaminal susceptibility measures on ultra-high-field MRI can distinguish MSA patients from PD patients, allowing for an early and sensitive diagnosis of MSA.
THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kathrin Malejko, Dominik Neff, Rebecca C. Brown, Paul L. Plener, Martina Bonenberger, Birgit Abler, Georg Groen, Heiko Graf
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2018)
Review
Neurosciences
Maya Jammoul, Dareen Jammoul, Kevin K. Wang, Firas Kobeissy, Ralph G. Depalma
Summary: This article reviews the possible mechanisms by which traumatic brain injury (TBI) may stimulate the development of opioid use disorder (OUD) and discusses the interaction between these two processes. CNS damage due to TBI appears to drive adverse effects of subsequent OUD, with pain being a risk factor for opioid use after TBI.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Danusa Mar Arcego, Jan-Paul Buschdorf, Nicholas O'Toole, Zihan Wang, Barbara Barth, Irina Pokhvisneva, Nirmala Arul Rayan, Sachin Patel, Euclides Jose de Mendonca Filho, Patrick Lee, Jennifer Tan, Ming Xuan Koh, Chu Ming Sim, Carine Parent, Randriely Merscher Sobreira de Lima, Andrew Clappison, Kieran J. O'Donnell, Carla Dalmaz, Janine Arloth, Nadine Provencal, Elisabeth B. Binder, Josie Diorio, Patricia Pelufo Silveira, Michael J. Meaney
Summary: This study investigates the impact of environmental influences on mental health by integrating transcriptomic data from animal models with human data. The results suggest that hippocampal glucocorticoid-related transcriptional activity mediates the effects of early adversity on neural mechanisms implicated in psychiatric disorders.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Milenna T. van Dijk, Ardesheer Talati, Pratik Kashyap, Karan Desai, Nora C. Kelsall, Marc J. Gameroff, Natalie Aw, Eyal Abraham, Breda Cullen, Jiook Cha, Christoph Anacker, Myrna M. Weissman, Jonathan Posner
Summary: This study found that maternal stress is associated with future depressive symptoms and alterations in microstructure of the dentate gyrus (DG) in offspring. These results were consistent across two independent cohorts.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Josephine C. McGowan, Liliana R. Ladner, Claire X. Shubeck, Juliana Tapia, Christina T. LaGamma, Amanda Anqueira-Gonzalez, Ariana DeFrancesco, Briana K. Chen, Holly C. Hunsberger, Ezra J. Sydnor, Ryan W. Logan, Tzong-Shiue Yu, Steven G. Kernie, Christine A. Denny
Summary: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to fear generalization by altering fear memory traces, and this symptom can be improved with (R,S)-ketamine.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2024)