The role of negative affectivity and social inhibition in perceiving social threat: An fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1187-1193

  Kret, Mariska Esther ^a   Denollet, Johan ^a   Grèzes, Julie ^b   De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; FMRI; Individual differences; Negative affectivity; Personality; Social inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BODILY EXPRESSION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INHIBITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THREAT; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79954420622     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Adolphs R. Recognizing emotion from facial expressions: Psychological and neurological mechanisms. Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews 2002, 1:21-61.
2. Adolphs R. Neural systems for recognizing emotion. Current Opinion Neurobiology 2002, 12:169-177.
3. Adolphs R. The social brain: Neural basis of social knowledge. Annual Review of Psychology 2009, 60:693-716.
4. Bechara A., Tranel D., Damasio H. Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions. Brain 2000, 123(Pt 11):2189-2202.
5. Beck A.T. Depression: Causes and treatment 2006, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
6. Beesdo K., Lau J.Y., Guyer A.E., McClure-Tone E.B., Monk C.S., Nelson E.E., et al. Common and distinct amygdala-function perturbations in depressed vs anxious adolescents. Archives of General Psychiatry 2009, 66:275-285.
7. Campbell-Sills L., Simmons A.N., Lovero K.L., Rochlin A.A., Paulus M.P., Stein M.B. Functioning of neural systems supporting emotion regulation in anxiety-prone individuals. NeuroImage 2010, 54:689-696.
8. Canli T., Zhao Z., Desmond J.E., Kang E., Gross J., Gabrieli J.D. An fMRI study of personality influences on brain reactivity to emotional stimuli. Behavioural Neuroscience 2001, 115:33-42.
9. Canli T., Cooney R.E., Goldin P., Shah M., Sivers H., Thomason M.E., et al. Amygdala reactivity to emotional faces predicts improvement in major depression. Neuroreport 2005, 16:1267-1270.
10. Carr L., Iacoboni M., Dubeau M.C., Mazziotta J.C., Lenzi G.L. Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: A relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003, 100:5497-5502.
11. Chrousos G.P. Stress and disorders of the stress system. Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2009, 5:374-381.
12. Cremers H.R., Demenescu L.R., Aleman A., Renken R., van Tol M.J., van der Wee N.J., et al. Neuroticism modulates amygdala-prefrontal connectivity in response to negative emotional facial expressions. NeuroImage 2009, 49:963-970.
13. Damasio A.R. Descartes' error and the future of human life. Scientific American 1994, 271:144.
14. de Gelder B., van de Riet W.A., Grèzes J., Denollet J. Decreased differential activity in the amygdala in response to fearful expressions in Type D personality. Neurophysiologie Clinique 2008, 38:163-169.
15. Decety J., Lamm C. The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: How low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition. Neuroscientist 2007, 13:580-593.
16. Denollet J. DS14: Standard assessment of negative affectivity, social inhibition, and Type D personality. Psychosomatic Medicine 2005, 67:89-97.
17. Denollet J., Pedersen S.S., Vrints C.J., Conraads V.M. Usefulness of Type D personality in predicting five-year cardiac events above and beyond concurrent symptoms of stress in patients with coronary heart disease. American Journal of Cardiology 2006, 97:970-973.
18. Denollet J., Martens E.J., Nyklicek I., Conraads V.M., de Gelder B. Clinical events in coronary patients who report low distress: Adverse effect of repressive coping. Health Psychology 2008, 27:302-308.
19. Denollet J., Schiffer A.A., Kwaijtaal M., Hooijkaas H., Hendriks E.H., Widdershoven J.W., et al. Usefulness of Type D personality and kidney dysfunction as predictors of interpatient variability in inflammatory activation in chronic heart failure. American Journal of Cardiology 2009, 103:399-404.
20. Denollet J., de Jonge P., Kuyper A., Schene A.H., van Melle J.P., Ormel J., et al. Depression and Type D personality represent different forms of distress in the Myocardial INfarction and Depression - Intervention Trial (MIND-IT). Psychological Medicine 2009, 39:749-756.
21. Denollet J., Schiffer A.A., Spek V. A general propensity to psychological distress affects cardiovascular outcomes: Evidence from research on the Type D (distressed) personality profile. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality Outcomes 2010, 3:546-557.
22. DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR 2000, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC. 4th ed.
23. Duvernoy H.M. The human brain: Surface, three-dimensional sectional anatomy with MRI, and blood supply 1999, Springer Verlag, Wien New York.
24. Eickhoff S.B., Stephan K.E., Mohlberg H., Grefkes C., Fink G.R., Amunts K.K.Z. A new SPM toolbox for combining probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and functional imaging data. NeuroImage 2005, 25:1325-1335.
25. Eisler R., Levine D.S. Nurture, nature, and caring: We are not prisoners of our genes. Brain and Mind 2002, 3:9-52.
26. Etkin A., Klemenhagen K.C., Dudman J.T., Rogan M.T., Hen R., Kandel E.R., et al. Individual differences in trait anxiety predict the response of the basolateral amygdala to unconsciously processed fearful faces. Neuron 2004, 44:1043-1055.
27. Ewbank M.P., Lawrence A.D., Passamonti L., Keane J., Peers P.V., Calder A.J. Anxiety predicts a differential neural response to attended and unattended facial signals of anger and fear. NeuroImage 2009, 44:1144-1151.
28. Friston K., Holmes A.P., Worsley K., Poline J., Frith C., Frackowiak R. Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach. Human Brain Mapping 1995, 2:189-210.
29. Gibbon M., Spitzer R.L., Williams J.B., Benjamin L.S., First M.B. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID-II) 1997, Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc.
30. Grèzes J., Pichon S., de Gelder B. Perceiving fear in dynamic body expressions. NeuroImage 2007, 35:959-967.
31. Grosbras M.H., Paus T. Brain networks involved in viewing angry hands or faces. Cerebral Cortex 2006, 16:1087-1096.
32. Habra M.E., Linden W., Anderson J.C., Weinberg J. Type D personality is related to cardiovascular and neuroendocrine reactivity to acute stress. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2003, 55:235-245.
33. Hatfield E., Cacioppo J.T., Rapson R.L. Emotional contagion 1994, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
34. Haxby J.V., Hoffman E.A., Gobbini M.I. The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2000, 4:223-233.
35. Hoffman K.L., Gothard K.M., Schmid M.C., Logothetis N.K. Facial-expression and gaze-selective responses in the monkey amygdala. Current Biology 2007, 17:766-772.
36. Holmes C.J., Hoge R., Collins L., Woods R., Toga A.W., Evans A.C. Enhancement of MR images using registration for signal averaging. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 1998, 22:324-333.
37. Hynes C.A., Baird A.A., Grafton S.T. Differential role of the orbital frontal lobe in emotional versus cognitive perspective-taking. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44:374-383.
38. Jimura K., Konishi S., Asari T., Miyashita Y. Temporal pole activity during understanding other persons' mental states correlates with neuroticism trait. Brain Research 2010, 1328:104-112.
39. Kilts C.D., Egan G., Gideon D.A., Ely T.D., Hoffman J.M. Dissociable neural pathways are involved in the recognition of emotion in static and dynamic facial expressions. NeuroImage 2003, 18:156-168.
40. Kret M.E., Pichon S., Grèzes J., de Gelder B. Similarities and differences in perceiving threat from dynamic faces and bodies: An fMRI study. NeuroImage 2011, 54:1755-1762.
41. Kringelbach M.L., Rolls E.T. The functional neuroanatomy of the human orbitofrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychology. Progress in Neurobiology 2004, 72:341-372.
42. Kugel H., Eichmann M., Dannlowski U., Ohrmann P., Bauer J., Arolt V., et al. Alexithymic features and automatic amygdala reactivity to facial emotion. Neuroscience Letters 2008, 435:40-44.
43. Kupper N., Denollet J. Type D personality as a prognostic factor in heart disease: Assessment and mediating mechanisms. Journal of Personality Assessment 2007, 89:265-276.
44. Lee B.T., Seong Whi C., Hyung Soo K., Lee B.C., Choi I.G., Lyoo I.K., et al. The neural substrates of affective processing toward positive and negative affective pictures in patients with major depressive disorder. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 2007, 31:1487-1492.
45. Lee B.T., Seok J.H., Lee B.C., Cho S.W., Yoon B.J., Lee K.U., et al. Neural correlates of affective processing in response to sad and angry facial stimuli in patients with major depressive disorder. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 2008, 32:778-785.
46. Martens E.J., Kupper N., Pedersen S.S., Aquarius A.E., Denollet J. Type D personality is a stable taxonomy in post-MI patients over an 18-month period. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2007, 63:545-550.
47. Molloy G.J., Perkins-Porras L., Strike P.C., Steptoe A. Type D personality and cortisol in survivors of acute coronary syndrome. Psychosomatic Medicine 2008, 70:863-868.
48. Oldfield R.C. The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 1971, 9:97-113.
49. Pelphrey K.A., Morris J.P., McCarthy G. Neural basis of eye gaze processing deficits in autism. Brain 2005, 128:1038-1048.
50. Peluso M.A., Glahn D.C., Matsuo K., Monkul E.S., Najt P., Zamarripa F., et al. Amygdala hyperactivation in untreated depressed individuals. Psychiatry Research 2009, 173:158-161.
51. Perez-Edgar K., Roberson-Nay R., Hardin M.G., Poeth K., Guyer A.E., Nelson E.E., et al. Attention alters neural responses to evocative faces in behaviorally inhibited adolescents. Neuroimage 2007, 35:1538-1546.
52. Pichon S., de Gelder B., Grèzes J. Emotional modulation of visual and motor areas by dynamic body expressions of anger. Social Neuroscience 2008, 3:199-212.
53. Reker M., Ohrmann P., Rauch A.V., Kugel H., Bauer J., Dannlowski U., et al. Individual differences in alexithymia and brain response to masked emotion faces. Cortex 2010, 46:658-667.
54. Rolls E.T. The functions of the orbitofrontal cortex. Brain Cognition 2004, 55:11-29.
55. Sato W., Kochiyama T., Yoshikawa S., Naito E., Matsumura M. Enhanced neural activity in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion: An fMRI study. Brain Research Cognitive Brain Research 2004, 20:81-91.
56. Sato W., Fujimura T., Suzuki N. Enhanced facial EMG activity in response to dynamic facial expressions. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2008, 70:70-74.
57. Schmidt N.B., Richey J.A., Zvolensky M.J., Maner J.K. Exploring human freeze responses to a threat stressor. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 2008, 39:292-304.
58. Sher L. Type D personality: The heart, stress, and cortisol. QJM-Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians 2005, 98:323-329.
59. Simon D., Craig K.D., Miltner W.H., Rainville P. Brain responses to dynamic facial expressions of pain. Pain 2006, 126:309-318.
60. Somers D.C., Dale A.M., Seiffert A.E., Tootell R.B. Functional MRI reveals spatially specific attentional modulation in human primary visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1999, 96:1663-1668.
61. Stein M.B., Simmons A.N., Feinstein J.S., Paulus M.P. Increased amygdala and insula activation during emotion processing in anxiety-prone subjects. American Journal of Psychiatry 2007, 164:318-327.
62. Thomas K.M., Drevets W.C., Whalen P.J., Eccard C.H., Dahl R.E., Ryan N.D., et al. Amygdala response to facial expressions in children and adults. Biological Psychiatry 2001, 49:309-316.
63. Van Craenenbroeck E.M., Denollet J., Paelinck B.P., Beckers P., Possemiers N., Hoymans V.Y., et al. Circulating CD34+/KDR+ endothelial progenitor cells are reduced in chronic heart failure patients as a function of Type D personality. Clinical Science (London) 2009, 117:165-172.
64. van der Gaag C., Minderaa R.B., Keysers C. The BOLD signal in the amygdala does not differentiate between dynamic facial expressions. Social Cognition Affective Neuroscience 2007, 2:93-103.
65. Van Overwalle F., Baetens K. Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis. NeuroImage 2009, 48:564-584.