Distraction resulting from disease related words in alcohol-dependent inpatients: a controlled dichotic listening study

Stetter, Friedhelm; Ackermann, Klaus; Scherer, Emily A.; Schmid, Heide; Straube, Eckart R.; Mann, Karl

doi:10.1007/bf02190402

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“…Thus, paradigms that examine auditory selective attention might be more suitable to find differences not only on a neural, but also on a behavioral level. For example, in a dichotic listening task it has been shown that alcohol- dependent inpatients show more shadowing errors in comparison to social drinkers when concern- related words were presented in the irrelevant channel as compared to neutral words [ 68 ]. In an associative learning procedure [ 69 ], 42 different click- like tones were conditioned with positive, negative or neutral sounds from the International Affective Digitized Sounds system [ 70 ].…”

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Tinnitus- related distress: evidence from fMRI of an emotional stroop task

Golm

Schmidt‐Samoa

Dechent

et al. 2016

BMC Ear Nose Throat Disord

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BackgroundChronic tinnitus affects 5 % of the population, 17 % suffer under the condition. This distress seems mainly to be dependent on negative cognitive-emotional evaluation of the tinnitus and selective attention to the tinnitus. A well-established paradigm to examine selective attention and emotional processing is the Emotional Stroop Task (EST). Recent models of tinnitus distress propose limbic, frontal and parietal regions to be more active in highly distressed tinnitus patients. Only a few studies have compared high and low distressed tinnitus patients. Thus, this study aimed to explore neural correlates of tinnitus-related distress.MethodsHighly distressed tinnitus patients (HDT, n = 16), low distressed tinnitus patients (LDT, n = 16) and healthy controls (HC, n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during an EST, that used tinnitus-related words and neutral words as stimuli. A random effects analysis of the fMRI data was conducted on the basis of the general linear model. Furthermore correlational analyses between the blood oxygen level dependent response and tinnitus distress, loudness, depression, anxiety, vocabulary and hypersensitivity to sound were performed.ResultsContradictory to the hypothesis, highly distressed patients showed no Stroop effect in their reaction times. As hypothesized HDT and LDT differed in the activation of the right insula and the orbitofrontal cortex. There were no hypothesized differences between HDT and HC. Activation of the orbitofrontal cortex and the right insula were found to correlate with tinnitus distress.ConclusionsThe results are partially supported by earlier resting-state studies and corroborate the role of the insula and the orbitofrontal cortex in tinnitus distress.

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Tinnitus- related distress: evidence from fMRI of an emotional stroop task

Golm

Schmidt‐Samoa

Dechent

et al. 2016

BMC Ear Nose Throat Disord

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“…Thus, paradigms that examine auditory selective attention might be more suitable to find differences not only Table 4 on a neural, but also on a behavioral level. For example, in a dichotic listening task it has been shown that alcohol-dependent inpatients show more shadowing errors in comparison to social drinkers when concern-related words were presented in the irrelevant channel as compared to neutral words [68]. In an associative learning procedure [69], 42 different click-like tones were conditioned with positive, negative or neutral sounds from the International Affective Digitized Sounds system [70].…”

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Neural correlates of tinnitus related distress: An fMRI-study

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Background: Chronic tinnitus affects 5 % of the population, 17 % suffer under the condition. This distress seems mainly to be dependent on negative cognitive-emotional evaluation of the tinnitus and selective attention to the tinnitus. A well-established paradigm to examine selective attention and emotional processing is the Emotional Stroop Task (EST). Recent models of tinnitus distress propose limbic, frontal and parietal regions to be more active in highly distressed tinnitus patients. Only a few studies have compared high and low distressed tinnitus patients. Thus, this study aimed to explore neural correlates of tinnitus-related distress.

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“…For instance, amplitude reduction (Patterson et al, 1987;Pfefferbaum et al, 1991) and peak latency delay (Pfefferbaum et al, 1991(Pfefferbaum et al, , 1979Steinhauer et al, 1987) of the P3b, a large attentional ERP component that peaks 300 to 500 msec after targetstimulus onset, have been found in alcoholics. Alcoholdependent individuals also might be pronouncedly distracted by disease-related stimuli (e.g., alcohol-related words) during selective-attention tasks (Stetter et al, 1994(Stetter et al, , 1995. However, few studies on alcoholism have concentrated on the cerebral basis of involuntary attention shifting, a fundamental function that allows the individual to orient to unexpected, potentially harmful, changes in the environment (Näätänen, 1992) but needs to be controlled when one is concentrating on goal-directed functioning.…”

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