Revisiting attentional processing of non-emotional cues in social anxiety: A specific impairment for the orienting network of attention

Heeren, Alexandre; Maurage, Pierre; Philippot, Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.04.030

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“…It has been shown that specific military training may increase the reaction time and accurate rate and psychological wellbeing education may improve the psychological wellbeing of military personnel and reduce unhealthy emotions, which increase stress-coping capacity of military servicemen and servicewomen under stressful circumstances. [16,17] Therefore, military training and psychological wellbeing education may compensate deficits in cognitive performances of individuals with high trait anxiety.…”

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Behavior characteristics of the attention network of military personnel with high and low trait anxiety

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Converging evidence reveals significant increase in both state anxiety and trait anxiety during the past 2 decades among military servicemen and servicewomen in China. In the present study, we employed the Chinese version of the State-trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) to examine trait and state anxiety in Chinese military servicemen and servicewomen. We further evaluated orienting, alerting and execution inhibition using the attention network test.Healthy military servicemen and servicewomen were recruited for the present study. The STAI was used to measure both state and trait anxiety and the attention network test was done to determine reaction time and accuracy rate.Fifty-seven subjects were eligible for the study. Their mean STAI score was 3.2 ± 2.8 (range, 1–17) and 29 (50.9%) subjects were categorized into the high trait anxiety group and 28 (49.1%) subjects into the low trait anxiety group. The reaction time of the high trait anxiety group to incongruent, congruent, and neutral target was significantly longer than that of the low trait anxiety group (P < .05). Moreover, the accurate rate of the high trait anxiety group for incongruent, congruent, and neutral target was significantly higher than that of the low trait anxiety group (P < .05). Repeated analysis of variance showed marked effect of trait anxiety, cue types, and target types on reaction time. There was significant interaction among trait anxiety, target types, and cue types. Trait anxiety and target types also had marked effect on the accurate rate. Multivariate analysis showed no marked effect of trait anxiety on the alerting, orienting, and execution inhibition subnetwork.The present study has demonstrated that military service personnel with high trait anxiety requires more time for cognitive processing of external information but exhibits enhanced reaction accuracy rate compared to those with low trait anxiety. Our findings indicate that interventional strategies to improve the psychological wellbeing of military service personnel should be implemented to improve combat mission performance.

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Behavior characteristics of the attention network of military personnel with high and low trait anxiety

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“…This suggests that the hippocampus is more involved in the perception of sad materials in the MDD group, which might be a potential neural mechanism of negative mood in depression (Lai, ). The higher activation in the OFC and less activation in the hippocampus in the IOR effect of the RMD group suggest that the remitted individuals might be able to keep emotional balance through more effort in the OFC and less involvement in the hippocampus (Heeren, Maurage, & Philippot, ).…”

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Orbito‐frontal cortex mechanism of inhibition of return in current and remitted depression

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Yin

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Deficient inhibition of return (IOR) for emotional materials is an important cognitive biomarker of depression. However, its neural mechanism and role in depression remission remain largely unknown. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this study observed the neural foundation of inhibition of return in individuals with current (n = 30) and remitted (n = 27) depression and in healthy controls (n = 33), by using a cue-target task. The results showed that individuals with remitted depression (RMD) possessed a nonavoidant attention model for sad faces, which indicated a cue validity and was correlated with enhanced task- and resting-state activation and function connectivity in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). The patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), in contrast, displayed an IOR effect for all faces, which indicated a strategy of attention avoidance due to the high cognitive burden in the cue-target task, and was correlated with decreased resting-state activation and function connectivity in OFC. Moreover, the hippocampus, a less-known cortex in IOR, showed a contrary model, that is, lower activation in depression remission and higher task- and resting-state activation in depressive episodes. The results suggest the OFC mechanism of the IOR effect in remitted depression and the hippocampus mechanism of the IOR effect in depressive episodes, which offer potential biomarkers for the clinical treatment of depression.

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“…First, a strict reading of their account is at odds with previous evidence of alerting and orienting networks impairments in a wide range of distinct psychopathological conditions (e.g., Lundervold et al, 2011 ; Fan et al, 2012 ; Keehn et al, 2013 ; Heeren et al, 2015 ). Moreover, strong associations between the efficiency of these two networks and several key transdiagnostic processes have been recently portrayed.…”

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Looking under the hood of executive function impairments in psychopathology: A commentary on “Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches”

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Revisiting attentional processing of non-emotional cues in social anxiety: A specific impairment for the orienting network of attention

Cited by 37 publications

References 51 publications

Behavior characteristics of the attention network of military personnel with high and low trait anxiety

Behavior characteristics of the attention network of military personnel with high and low trait anxiety

Orbito‐frontal cortex mechanism of inhibition of return in current and remitted depression

Looking under the hood of executive function impairments in psychopathology: A commentary on “Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches”

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