Area-dependent time courses of brain activation during video-induced symptom provocation in social anxiety disorder

Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders

Stephanie Boehme¹  Alexander Mohr¹  Michael PI Becker²  Wolfgang HR Miltner¹  Thomas Straube² 

[1] Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Am Steiger 3 // 1, Jena D-07743, Germany

[2] Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience, University of Muenster, Von-Esmarch-Str. 52, Muenster D-48149, Germany

关键词: Medial prefrontal cortex;    Insula;    Amygdala;    Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI);    Symptom provocation;    Social anxiety disorder;   

Others  :  791671
DOI  :  10.1186/2045-5380-4-6

 received in 2013-12-05, accepted in 2014-04-11,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Previous functional imaging studies using symptom provocation in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) reported inconsistent findings, which might be at least partially related to different time-dependent activation profiles in different brain areas. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we used a novel video-based symptom provocation design in order to investigate the magnitude and time course of activation in different brain areas in 20 SAD patients and 20 healthy controls.

Results

The disorder-related videos induced increased anxiety in patients with SAD as compared to healthy controls. Analyses of brain activation to disorder-related versus neutral video clips revealed amygdala activation during the first but not during the second half of the clips in patients as compared to controls. In contrast, the activation in the insula showed a reversed pattern with increased activation during the second but not during the first half of the video clips. Furthermore, a cluster in the anterior dorsal anterior cingulate cortex showed a sustained response for the entire duration of the videos.

Conclusions

The present findings suggest that different regions of the fear network show differential temporal response patterns during video-induced symptom provocation in SAD. While the amygdala is involved during initial threat processing, the insula seems to be more involved during subsequent anxiety responses. In accordance with cognitive models of SAD, a medial prefrontal region engaged in emotional-cognitive interactions is generally hyperactivated.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Boehme et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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