Depression and Anxious Apprehension Distinguish Frontocingulate Cortical Activity During Top-Down Attentional Control

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 272-285

  Levin Silton, Rebecca ^a   Heller, Wendy ^a   Engels, Anna S ^a   Towers, David N ^a   Spielberg, Jeffrey M ^a   Edgar, J Christopher ^a   Sass, Sarah M ^a   Stewart, Jennifer L ^a   Sutton, Bradley P ^a   Banich, Marie T ^b   Miller, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxious apprehension; Attention; DACC; Depression; LDLPFC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STROOP TEST;

EID: 79956060325     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023204     Document Type: Article

References (77)

1. Aguirre G.K., Zarahn E., D'Esposito M. The variability of human, BOLD hemodynamic responses. NeuroImage 1998, 8:360-369. doi: 10.1006/nimg.1998.0369.
2. Aiken L.S., West S.G. Multiple regression: Testing and interpreting interactions 1991, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
3. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 2000, American Psychiatric Association, Author, Washington, DC. 4th ed., text rev.
4. Banich M.T. Executive function: The search for an integrated account. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2009, 18:89-94. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01615.x.
5. Behar E., Alcaine O., Zuellig A.R., Borkovec T.D. Screening for generalized anxiety disorder using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire: A receiver operating characteristic analysis. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 2003, 34:25-43. doi: 10.1016/S0005-7916(03)00004-1.
6. Berg P., Scherg M. A multiple source approach to the correction of eye artifacts. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1994, 90:229-241. doi: 10.1016/0013-4694(94)90094-9.
7. Biringer E., Lundervold A., Stordal K., Mykletun A., Egeland J., Bottlender R., Lund A. Executive function improvement upon remission of recurrent unipolar depression. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 2005, 255:373-380. doi: 10.1007/s00406-005-0577-7.
8. Bishop S.J. Trait anxiety and impoverished prefrontal control of attention. Nature Neuroscience 2009, 12:92-98. doi: 10.1038/nn.2242.
9. Bishop S.J., Duncan J., Brett M., Lawrence A.D. Prefrontal cortical function and anxiety: Controlling attention to threat-related stimuli. Nature Neuroscience 2004, 7:184-188. doi: 10.1038/nn1173.
10. Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D., Carter C.S. Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: An update. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2004, 8:539-546. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.10.003.
11. Bredemeier K., Spielberg J.M., Silton R.L., Berenbaum H., Heller W., Miller G.A. Screening for depressive disorders using the Mood Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire Anhedonic Depression Scale: A receiver-operating characteristic analysis. Psychological Assessment 2010, 22:702-710. doi: 10.1037/a0019915.
12. Breiter H.C., Rauch S.L., Kwong K.K., Baker J.R., Weisskoff R.M., Kennedy D.N., Rosen B.R. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of symptom provocation in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry 1996, 53:595-606.
13. Brody A.L., Saxena S., Stoessel P., Gillies L.A., Fairbanks L.A., Alborzian S., Baxter L.R. Regional brain metabolic changes in patients with major depression treated with either paroxetine or interpersonal therapy: Preliminary findings. Archives of General Psychiatry 2001, 58:631-640. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.58.7.631.
14. Bush G., Luu P., Posner M.I. Cognitive and emotional influences in anterior cingulate cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2000, 4:215-222. doi: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01483-2.
15. Bystritsky A., Pontillo D., Powers M., Sabb F.W., Craske M.G., Bookheimer S.Y. Functional MRI changes during panic anticipation and imagery exposure. NeuroReport 2001, 12:3953-3957. doi: 10.1097/00001756-200112210-00020.
16. Cohen J. A power primer. Psychological Bulletin 1992, 112:155-159. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.112.1.155.
17. Cohen J., Cohen P., West S.G., Aiken L.S. Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences 2003, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. 3rd ed.
18. Compton R.J., Heller W., Banich M.T., Palmieri P.A., Miller G.A. Responding to threat: Hemispheric asymmetries and interhemispheric division of input. Neuropsychology 2000, 14:254-264. doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.14.2.254.
19. Duncan J., Owen A.M. Common regions of the human frontal lobe recruited by diverse cognitive demands. Trends in Neurosciences 2000, 23:475-483. doi: 10.1016/S0166-2236(00)01633-7.
20. Dunkin J.J., Leuchter A.F., Cook I.A., Kasl-Godley J.E., Abrams M., Rosenberg-Thompson S. Executive dysfunction predicts nonresponse to fluoxetine in major depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 2000, 60:13-23. doi: 10.1016/S0165-0327(99)00157-3.
21. Eisenberger N.I., Liberman M.D., Satpute A.J. Personality from a controlled processing perspective: An fMRI study of neuroticism, extraversion, and self-consciousness. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2005, 5:169-181. doi: 10.3758/CABN.5.2.169.
22. Engels A.S., Heller W., Mohanty A., Herrington J.D., Banich M.T., Webb A.G., Miller G.A. Specificity of regional brain activity in anxiety types during emotion processing. Psychophysiology 2007, 44:352-363. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00518.x.
23. Engels A.S., Heller W., Spielberg J.M., Warren S.L., Sutton B.P., Banich M.T., Miller G.A. Co-occurring anxiety influences patterns of brain activity in depression. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2010, 10:141-156. doi: 10.3758/CABN.10.1.141.
24. Eysenck M.W., Derakshan N., Santos R., Calvo M.G. Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory. Emotion 2007, 7:336-353. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.336.
25. Fan J., Flombaum J.I., McCandliss B.D., Thomas K.M., Posner M.I. Cognitive and brain consequences of conflict. NeuroImage 2003, 18:42-57. doi: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1319.
26. First M.B., Spitzer R.L., Gibbon M., Williams J.B.W. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders: Non-Patient edition (SCID-I/NP, Version 2.0, 4/97 revision) 1997, Biometrics Research, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY.
27. Fitzgerald P.B., Oxley T.J., Laird A.R., Kulkarni J., Egan G.F., Daskalakis Z.J. An analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of dorsolateral prefrontal cortical activity in depression. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2006, 148:33-45. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.04.006.
28. Fox E. Attentional bias in anxiety: Selective or not?. Behaviour Research and Therapy 1993, 31:487-493. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(93)90129-I.
29. Gehring W.J., Himle J., Nisenson L.G. Action monitoring dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychological Science 2000, 11:1-6. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280.00206.
30. George M.S., Ketter T.A., Parekh P.I., Rosinsky N., Ring H.A., Pazzaglia P.J., Post R.M. Blunted left cingulate activation in mood disorder subjects during a response interference task (the Stroop). Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 1997, 9:55-63.
31. Gotlib I.H., Krasnoperova E. Information processing as a vulnerability factor for depression. Behavior Therapy 1998, 29:603-617. doi: 10.1016/S0005-7894(98)80020-8.
32. Gotlib I.H., Krasnoperova E., Yue D.N., Joorman J. Attentional biases for negative interpersonal stimuli in clinical depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2004, 113:127-135. doi: 10.1037/0021-843X.113.1.121.
33. Hajcak G., McDonald N., Simons R.F. Anxiety and error-related brain activity. Biological Psychology 2003, 64:77-90. doi: 10.1016/S0301-0511(03)00103-0.
34. Heller W. Neuropsychological mechanisms of individual differences in emotion, personality, and arousal. Neuropsychology 1993, 7:476-489. doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.7.4.476.
35. Herrington J.D., Heller W., Mohanty A., Engels A.S., Banich M.T., Webb A.G., Miller G.A. Localization of asymmetric brain function in emotion and depression. Psychophysiology 2010, 47:442-454.
36. Hertel P.T. Depression and memory: Are impairments remediable through attentional control?. Current Direction in Psychological Science 1994, 3:190-193. doi: 10.1111/1467-8721.ep10770707.
37. Hertel P.T. Impairments in inhibition or cognitive control in psychological disorders. Applied and Preventive Psychology 2007, 12:149-153. doi: 10.1016/j.appsy.2007.09.006.
38. Hochman S.H. The effects of stress on Stroop color-word performance. Psychonomic Science 1967, 9:475-476.
39. Holmes A.J., Pizzagalli D.A. Response conflict and frontocingulate dysfunction in unmedicated participants with major depression. Neuropsychologia 2008, 46:2904-2913. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.028.
40. Jaeger J., Berns S., Uzelac S., Davis-Conway S. Neurocognitive deficits and disability in major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research 2006, 145:39-48. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.11.011.
41. Jenkinson M., Bannister P., Brady M., Smith S. Improved optimization for the robust and accurate linear registration and motion correction of brain images. NeuroImage 2002, 17:825-841. doi: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1132.
42. Kessler R.C., DuPont R.L., Berglund P., Wittchen H.-U. Impairment in pure and comorbid generalized anxiety disorder and major depression at 12 months in two national surveys. American Journal of Psychiatry 1999, 156:1915-1923.
43. Kessler R.C., Nelson C.B., McGonagle K.A., Liu J., Swartz M., Blazer D.G. Comorbidity of DSM-III-R major depressive disorder in the general population: Results from the US National Comorbidity Survey. British Journal of Psychiatry 1996, 168:17-30.
44. Kessler R.C., Zhao S., Blazer D.G., Swartz M. Prevalence, correlates, and course of minor depression and major depression in the National Comorbidity Survey. Journal of Affective Disorders 1997, 45:19-30. doi: 10.1016/S0165-0327(97)00056-6.
45. Killgore W.D.S., Gruber S.A., Yurgelun-Todd D.A. Depressed mood and lateralized prefrontal activity during a Stroop task in adolescent children. Neuroscience Letters 2007, 416:43-48. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.01.081.
46. Krug M.K., Carter C.S. Adding fear to conflict: A general purpose cognitive control network is modulated by trait anxiety. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2010, 10:357-371.
47. Liu X., Banich M.T., Jacobson B.L., Tanabe J.L. Functional dissociation of attentional selection within PFC: Response and non-response related aspects of attentional selection as ascertained by fMRI. Cerebral Cortex 2006, 16:827-834. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhj026.
48. Mayberg H.S. Limbic-cortical dysregulation: A proposed model of depression. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 1997, 9:471-481.
49. Mayberg H.S., Brannan S.K., Tekell J.L., Silva J.A., Mahurin R.K., McGinnis S., Jerabek P.A. Regional metabolic effects of fluoxetine in major depression: Serial changes and relationship to clinical response. Biological Psychiatry 2000, 48:830-843. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)01036-2.
50. Meyer T.J., Miller M.L., Metzger R.L., Borkovec T.D. Development and validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy 1990, 28:487-495. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(90)90135-6.
51. Michel C.M., Murray M.M., Lantz G., Gonzalez S., Spinelli L., Grave de Peralta R. EEG source imaging. Clinical Neurophysiology 2004, 115:2195-2222. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.06.001.
52. Miezin F.M., Maccotta L., Ollinger J.M., Petersen S.E., Buckner R.L. Characterizing the hemodynamic response: Effects of presentation rate, sampling procedure, and the possibility of ordering brain activity based on relative timing. NeuroImage 2000, 11:735-739. doi: 10.1006/nimg.2000.0568.
53. Mohanty A., Engels A.S., Herrington J.D., Heller W., Ringo Ho M.-H., Banich M.T., Miller G.A. Differential engagement of anterior cingulate cortex subdivisions for cognitive and emotional function. Psychophysiology 2007, 44:343-351. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00515.x.
54. Molina S., Borkovec T.D. The Penn State Worry Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and associated characteristics. Worrying: Perspectives on theory, assessment and treatment 1994, 265-283. Wiley, Chichester, England. G.C.L. Davey, F. Tallis (Eds.).
55. Nitschke J.B., Heller W. The neuropsychology of anxiety disorders: Affect, cognition, and neural circuitry. Biological psychiatry 2002, 2:975-988. Wiley, Chichester, England. H.A.H. D'haenen, J.A. den Boer, P. Willner (Eds.).
56. Nitschke J.B., Heller W., Imig J.C., McDonald R.P., Miller G.A. Distinguishing dimensions of anxiety and depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research 2001, 25:1-22. doi: 10.1023/A:1026485530405.
57. Nitschke J.B., Heller W., Miller G.A. Anxiety, stress, and cortical brain function. The neuropsychology of emotion 2000, 298-319. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. J.C. Borod (Ed.).
58. Oldfield R.C. The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh Inventory. Neuropsychologia 1971, 9:97-113. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(71)90067-4.
59. Olvet D.M., Hajcak G. The error-related negativity (ERN) and psychopathology: Toward an endophenotype. Clinical Psychology Review 2008, 28:1343-1354. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2008.07.003.
60. Paradiso S., Lamberty G.J., Garvey M.J., Robinson R.G. Cognitive impairment in the euthymic phase of chronic unipolar depression. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1997, 185:748-754. doi: 10.1097/00005053-199712000-00005.
61. Paulus M.P., Feinstein J.S., Simmons A., Stein M.B. Anterior cingulate activation in high trait anxious subjects is related to altered error processing during decision making. Biological Psychiatry 2004, 55:1179-1187. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.02.023.
62. Preacher K.J., Hayes A.F. Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models. Behavior Research Methods 2008, 40:879-891. doi: 10.3758/BRM.40.3.879.
63. Preacher K.J., Rucker D.D., Hayes A.F. Addressing moderated mediation hypotheses: Theory, methods, and prescriptions. Multivariate Behavioral Research 2007, 42:185-227.
64. Ravnkilde B., Videbech P., Clemmensen K., Egander A., Rasmussen N.A., Rosenberg R. Cognitive deficits in major depression. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 2002, 43:239-251. doi: 10.1111/1467-9450.00292.
65. Rogers M.A., Bradshaw J.L., Pantelis C., Phillips J.G. Frontostriatal deficits in unipolar major depression. Brain Research Bulletin 1998, 47:297-310. doi: 10.1016/S0361-9230(98)00126-9.
66. Segal Z.V., Williams J.M.G., Teasdale J.D. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: A new approach to preventing relapse 2002, Guilford Press, New York, NY.
67. Siegle G.J., Ghinassi F., Thase M.E. Neurobehavioral therapies in the 21st century: Summary of an emerging field and an extended example of cognitive control training for depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research 2007, 31:235-262. doi: 10.1007/s10608-006-9118-6.
68. Silton R.L., Miller G.A., Towers D.N., Engels A.S., Edgar J.C., Spielberg J.M., Heller W. The time course of activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex during top-down attentional control. NeuroImage 2010, 50:1292-1302. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.061.
69. Stordal K.I., Lundervold A.J., Egeland J., Mykletun A., Asbjørnsen A., Landrø N.I., Lund A. Impairment across executive functions in recurrent major depression. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 2004, 58:41-47. doi: 10.1080/08039480310000789.
70. Stroop J.R. Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1935, 18:643-662. doi: 10.1037/h0054651.
71. Ursu S., Stenger V.A., Shear M.K., Jones M.R., Carter C.S. Overactive action monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging. Psychological Science 2003, 14:347-353. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280.24411.
72. Videbech P., Ravnkilde B., Gammelgaard L., Egander A., Clemmensen K., Rasmussen N.A., Rosenberg R. The Danish PET/depression project: Performance on Stroop's test linked to white matter lesions in the brain. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2004, 130:117-130. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2003.10.002.
73. Wagner G., Sinsel E., Sobanski T., Köhler S., Marinou V., Mentzel H.-J., Schlösser R.G.M. Cortical inefficiency in patients with unipolar depression: An event-related fMRI study with the Stroop task. Biological Psychiatry 2006, 59:958-965. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.10.025.
74. Ward B.D. Simultaneous inference for fMRI data 2000, Retrieved from http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc/manual/AlphaSim.pdf.
75. Watson D., Clark L.A., Weber K., Assenheimer J.S., Strauss M.E., McCormick R.A. Testing a tripartite model: II. Exploring the symptom structure of anxiety and depression in student, adult, and patient samples. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1995, 104:15-25. doi: 10.1037/0021-843X.104.1.15.
76. Watson D., Weber K., Assenheimer J.S., Clark L.A., Strauss M.E., McCormick R.A. Testing a tripartite model: I. Evaluating the convergent and discriminant validity of anxiety and depression symptom scales. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1995, 104:3-14. doi: 10.1037/0021-843X.104.1.3.
77. Woolrich M.W., Ripley B.D., Brady M., Smith S.M. Temporal autocorrelation in univariate linear modeling of fMRI data. NeuroImage 2001, 14:1370-1386. doi: 10.1006/nimg.2001.0931.