Associations between different facets of anhedonia and neural response to monetary, social, and food reward in emerging adults

Banica, Iulia; Schell, Sarah; Racine, Sarah E.; Weinberg, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108363

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“…In contrast to the sustained LPP, the RewP (also sometimes called the feedback‐related negativity, or FN/FRN; Proudfit, 2015), a feedback‐locked component, appears to be a very early index of initial reward responsivity. The RewP is elicited following signals indicating positive outcomes of actions taken—for instance, behaviors that are followed by receipt of monetary reward, social approval, or high‐calorie foods (Banica et al, 2022; Kujawa, Arfer, et al, 2014; Oumeziane et al, 2017; Proudfit, 2015). The RewP is maximal at centro‐parietal sites approximately 250 to 350 ms following feedback onset, though this timing varies somewhat depending on task design and developmental stage.…”

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“…Inferences are then made from neural responses to monetary rewards that are assumed to generalize across incentive processing. However, there is increasing evidence for category specificity in the RewP, in that, though multiple incentive types elicit a RewP, the associations among the RewPs in different tasks are relatively modest (e.g., Banica et al, 2022; Ethridge et al, 2017; Oumeziane et al, 2017). The work my lab has done in this area further suggests that individual differences in the salience of different rewards as measured by the RewP are, in turn, reflected in distinct individual differences in affective, cognitive, and social domains (Banica et al, 2022).…”

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“…Again, we found a recognizable RewP in response to each type of reward, but also evidence that these RewPs were not strongly associated with one another (correlations ranged from .04 to .26). Moreover, the RewPs elicited in the different tasks showed specific associations with different dimensions of self‐reported motivation and anhedonia, with the RewP elicited by social feedback most strongly correlated with self‐reported social anhedonia, and the RewP elicited by food reward most strongly correlated with self‐reported “liking” of rewards once they were received (Banica et al, 2022). Combined, these studies suggest that both domain‐general and category‐specific processes underlie neural responses to rewards.…”

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Pathways to depression: Dynamic associations between neural responses to appetitive cues in the environment, stress, and the development of illness

Weinberg

2022

Psychophysiology

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This review focuses on research my colleagues and I have conducted on etiological pathways to depression. Much of this work has focused on the measurement of neural responses to appetitive cues, using two event-related brain potential (ERP) components, the Late Positive Potential (LPP) and the Reward Positivity (RewP). Reductions in each of these components have been associated with current symptoms of depression, and in some cases have been shown to differentiate anxious from depressive phenotypes. In this review, I will describe three broad and related approaches we have taken in our research to address a series of interdependent issuess. The first attempts to understand different sources of variation in the LPP and RewP, and how these sources interact with one another. The second tries to identify whether variation in the processes measured by these ERP components might reflect a latent vulnerability to depression and its symptoms, that is evident prior to illness onset. And the third examines the possibility that the processes reflected in the LPP and RewP might play a mechanistic role in the development of depression.

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Pathways to depression: Dynamic associations between neural responses to appetitive cues in the environment, stress, and the development of illness

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2022

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“…It is possible that high levels of social sensitivity may produce anhedonia-related sequelae 97 , and future work should investigate this possibility. Indeed, understanding the dimensionality of anhedonia and its association to reward responses to different classes of reward is open area of inquiry [e.g., 98 ], and future work should aim to map specific inflammatory processes to dimensions of anhedonia and reward responsivity.…”

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Validation of a novel method of ultraviolet-induced cutaneous inflammation and its associations with anhedonia

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Affective immunology of the skin is a growing area; however, established protocols for measuring individual differences in cutaneous inflammation are lacking. To address this, we present a preliminary validation of Precision Implementation of Minimal Erythema Dose (PI-MED) testing as a method for measuring cutaneous inflammation. PI-MED is a recently adapted protocol, optimized for reproducibility and individual differences research, that uses ultraviolet (UV) light to evoke cutaneous erythema, or inflammatory skin reddening. PI-MED’s novel UV dosage schedule produces standardized erythema responses across different skin pigmentation types and shows strong internal consistency within person and good test–retest reliability across 8–10 weeks. In line with predictions, increased PI-MED erythema was associated with heightened anhedonia, across several measures, beyond influences of non-affective covariates. While future work should further refine the dosage schedule for the lightest and darkest skin types, overall, evidence supports PI-MED as a protocol for inducing and measuring individual differences in cutaneous inflammation. Further, PI-MED-induced erythema can expand psychoneuroimmunology research by offering a complementary assessment for general inflammatory tone. This work adds to a growing body of evidence demonstrating a distinct relationship between inflammation and anhedonia.

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“…There is evidence that a blunted neural response to social reward is present in those at risk for depression (Freeman et al, 2022 ; Olino et al, 2015 ) and in those with elevated depressive symptoms (Distefano et al, 2018 ; Kujawa et al, 2017 ) or major depressive disorder (Hsu et al, 2015 ). Some findings suggest that neural response to social reward is more closely correlated with depressive symptoms than neural response to monetary reward (Ait Oumeziane, Jones, & Foti, 2019 ; Banica, Schell, Racine, & Weinberg, 2022 ; Chan et al, 2015 ; Pegg, Arfer, & Kujawa, 2021 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ). Blunted neural response to social reward has also been found to moderate the association between lifetime interpersonal stress exposure and depressive symptoms; however, this study was conducted cross‐sectionally (Pegg et al, 2019 ).…”

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Neural response to social but not monetary reward predicts increases in depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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The prevalence of depressive symptoms has increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic, especially among those with greater pandemic‐related stress exposure; however, not all individuals exposed to pandemic stress will develop depression. Determining which individuals are vulnerable to depressive symptoms as a result of this stress could lead to an improved understanding of the etiology of depression. This study sought to determine whether neural sensitivity to monetary and/or social reward prospectively predicts depressive symptoms during periods of high stress. 121 participants attended pre‐pandemic laboratory visits where they completed monetary and social reward tasks while electroencephalogram was recorded. Subsequently, from March to August 2020, we sent eight questionnaires probing depressive symptoms and exposure to pandemic‐related stressors. Using repeated‐measures multilevel models, we evaluated whether neural response to social or monetary reward predicted increases in depressive symptoms across the early course of the pandemic. Furthermore, we examined whether neural response to social or monetary reward moderated the association between pandemic‐related episodic stressors and depressive symptoms. Pandemic‐related stress exposure was strongly associated with depressive symptoms. Additionally, we found that blunted neural response to social but not monetary reward predicted increased depressive symptoms during the pandemic. However, neither neural response to social nor monetary reward moderated the association between episodic stress exposure and depressive symptoms. Our findings indicate that neural response to social reward may be a useful predictor of depressive symptomatology under times of chronic stress, particularly stress with a social dimension.

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Associations between different facets of anhedonia and neural response to monetary, social, and food reward in emerging adults

Cited by 20 publications

References 123 publications

Pathways to depression: Dynamic associations between neural responses to appetitive cues in the environment, stress, and the development of illness

Pathways to depression: Dynamic associations between neural responses to appetitive cues in the environment, stress, and the development of illness

Validation of a novel method of ultraviolet-induced cutaneous inflammation and its associations with anhedonia

Neural response to social but not monetary reward predicts increases in depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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