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Cumulative activation during positive and negative events and state anxiety predicts subsequent inertia of amygdala reactivity

Pichon, Swann ; Miendlarzewska, Ewa A. ; Eryilmaz, Hamdi ; Vuilleumier, Patrik

In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2015, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 180-190

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    Titre
    • Cumulative activation during positive and negative events and state anxiety predicts subsequent inertia of amygdala reactivity
    Auteur
    • Pichon, Swann. Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1211, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Miendlarzewska, Ewa A.. Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1211, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Eryilmaz, Hamdi. Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1211, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Vuilleumier, Patrik. Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1211, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
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    • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2015, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 180-190. Oxford University Press
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    Summary
    Inertia, together with intensity and valence, is an important component of emotion. We tested whether positive and negative events generate lingering changes in subsequent brain responses to unrelated threat stimuli and investigated the impact of individual anxiety. We acquired fMRI data while participants watched positive or negative movie-clips and subsequently performed an unrelated task with fearful and neutral faces. We quantified changes in amygdala reactivity to fearful faces as a function of the valence of preceding movies and cumulative neural activity evoked during them. We demonstrate that amygdala responses to emotional movies spill over to subsequent processing of threat information in a valence-specific manner: negative movies enhance later amygdala activation whereas positive movies attenuate it. Critically, the magnitude of such changes is predicted by a measure of cumulative amygdala responses to the preceding positive or negative movies. These effects appear independent of overt attention, are regionally limited to amygdala, with no changes in functional connectivity. Finally, individuals with higher state anxiety displayed stronger modulation of amygdala reactivity by positive movies. These results suggest that intensity and valence of emotional events as well as anxiety levels promote local changes in amygdala sensitivity to threat, highlighting the importance of past experience in shaping future affective reactivity