An Integrative Way for Studying Neural Basis of Basic Emotions With fMRI

Gu, Shanqiang; Wang, Fushun; Cao, Caiyun; Wu, Erxi; Tang, Yi; Huang, Jason H.

doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.00628

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“…The regression results showed that life events had a significant positive effect on depression, and coping style had a significant negative predictive effect on depression. These findings are consistent with previous studies showing that individuals with negative coping style are more likely to have mood disorders such as anxiety and depression [ 31 ], highlighting the importance of coping styles established early in life.…”

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The Mediating Effects of Coping Style on the Effects of Breath Count Mindfulness Training on Depressive Symptoms among International Students in China

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Mindfulness training has gained popularity in the scientific field and has been proposed as an efficient way for emotional regulation. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is designed especially for depressive people in reducing risk of depression relapse and is recommended in national guidelines as a treatment choice for relapse prevention in recurrent depression. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of mindfulness training on depressive symptoms of international students and probe into the mediating role of mindfulness in stressful events and depression. In addition, we introduced a new kind of mindfulness training, the breathing exercise-based mindfulness training, which is based on the integration of Buddhism and Daoism. Self-report questionnaires assessing the coping style, abnormal depressive behavior, and stressful live events were completed in 260 international students in China (mean age=21.4 years). The results showed that (1) many international students showed depression symptoms, (2) stressful life events play a completely mediating role in the initiation of depression and anxiety, and (3) mindfulness training for 8 weeks significantly reduced the depressive symptoms, and it was also related to a positive coping style. This study has certain theoretical significance in exploring the mechanism of the occurrence and development of depression among international students and provides useful tools for this special group of international students. In addition, the international students can also learn Chinese culture through the training. These findings indicate that mindfulness training and positive coping style are interrelated with treating depressive symptoms for international students.

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The Mediating Effects of Coping Style on the Effects of Breath Count Mindfulness Training on Depressive Symptoms among International Students in China

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“…However, there is no efficient treatment for this disease, for the underlying neural mechanism of emotions is unclear [2]. The most widely accepted theory about affective disorders is the monoamine theory, which suggests that monoamines, including norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin (5-HT) are the major reasons for emotion disorders [3], and the first line of treatment for depression also targets these monoamines [4]. However, there are still many controversies about monoamine neurotransmitters affecting the emotion processes, for example, it is well known that 5-HT is a major neurotransmitter that is involved in depression; and sleep is also modulated by 5-HT in raphe nuclei, but how sleep affects depression is not clear.…”

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The Relationship between Insecure Attachment to Depression: Mediating Role of Sleep and Cognitive Reappraisal

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Previously, we have shown that neuromodulators are important factors in stress-induced emotional disorders, such as depression, for example, serotonin is the major substance for depression. Many psychological studies have proved that depression is due to insecure attachment. In addition, sleep is a major symptom of depression. Furthermore, serotonin is the substrate for both sleep and depression. To explore the role of sleep in the relationships between insecure attachment and depression, we investigated 755 college students with Close Relationship Inventory, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Self-rated Depression Scale, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The results showed that (1) insecure attachment positively predicted poor sleep quality; (2) sleep quality partially affected depression, possibly due the same stress neuromodulators such as norepinephrine and cortisol; and (3) cognitive reappraisal moderated the mediating path leading from attachment anxiety to poor sleep quality. These findings highlight the moderating role of cognitive reappraisal in the effects of attachment anxiety on sleep quality and finally on depression. In conclusion, sleep quality links attachment anxiety and emotional disorders.

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“…Although the compensatory plasticity hypothesis suggests that blindness associates with compensation for the loss of vision through more efficient use of the spared modalities [45], [65]. In this sense, provided that sadness is associated with more systematic and deliberate processing whereas happiness is associated with more heuristic processing, [66], [67] it is tempting to hypothesize that in the present study the blinds based on more heuristic adaptive processes and less systematic and deliberate processing.…”

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Perspective-Taking in Blindness: An Event- Related Brain Potentials Study With the Continuous Wavelet Transform

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This study presents brain electrophysiological characteristics of perspective-taking for blind individuals ver. sighted ones, aiming to extend our knowledge on social concept formation with visual sensory modality loss. A blind and a sighted group instructed to consider the moral dilemmas therein from a neutral (observer), a morally positive or a negative stance, after the auditory presentation of Aesop's fables. We recorded the basic emotions evoked by every stance in each fable, and the late positive potentials (LPP) component of Event-Related Potential detected with Continuous Wavelet Transform, believed to reflect the sustained attention and stimuli encoding processes. Blind participants demonstrated: i) significantly attenuated LPP amplitudes at distributed brain areas, particularly at leads T3, P4, O2, T6, Cz, Pz, CPz and CP4 (p values 0.026-0.003), ii) prolonged LPP latencies at parietal areas, at leads CP4 (p=0.009), Pz (p=0.019), and P4 (p=0.023), iii) shorter latencies at the frontal area (lead FPz, p=0.026) and iv) significantly shorter latencies at the right posterior centrotemporal area under the negative than the positive condition (lead C4, p=0.009). Both groups exhibited higher LPP amplitudes under the morally positive, and lower under the negative condition located at the parietal areas (P3, p=0.001 and CPz, p=0.013). The relationships between behavior and LPP activation conform to the proposed generation and modulation of LPP. Our findings suggest that the visually deprived cortex may become more responsive to processes associated with perspective-taking, possibly through compensatory plasticity enabling cross-modal reorganization. Thus, the study introduces a novel model for accessing the sustained attention and stimulus-encoding processes underlying perspective-taking. INDEX TERMS Event-related potentials, blindness, late positive potentials, continuous wavelet transform, perspective-taking.

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An Integrative Way for Studying Neural Basis of Basic Emotions With fMRI

Cited by 55 publications

References 160 publications

The Mediating Effects of Coping Style on the Effects of Breath Count Mindfulness Training on Depressive Symptoms among International Students in China

The Mediating Effects of Coping Style on the Effects of Breath Count Mindfulness Training on Depressive Symptoms among International Students in China

The Relationship between Insecure Attachment to Depression: Mediating Role of Sleep and Cognitive Reappraisal

Perspective-Taking in Blindness: An Event- Related Brain Potentials Study With the Continuous Wavelet Transform

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