The heart of control: Proactive cognitive control training limits anxious cardiac arousal under stress

Birk, John; Rogers, Andrew H.; Shahane, Anoushka D.; Urry, Heather L.

doi:10.1007/s11031-017-9659-x

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“…Furthermore, while OCD and anxiety are associated with enhanced reactive control, as indexed by an increased ERN, investigation of the timing of atypical theta dynamics in conjunction with performance deficits indicate there are likely effects of impaired proactive control, which may be central to the disabling symptoms of these disorders. In support of this model in anxiety, training and development of proactive control is associated with a reduction in stress in anxious individuals (113) and with avoiding the development of social anxiety in at-risk children (114).…”

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confidence: 84%

Midfrontal Theta Activity in Psychiatric Illness: An Index of Cognitive Vulnerabilities Across Disorders

McLoughlin

Gyurkovics

Palmer

et al. 2022

Biological Psychiatry

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

Midfrontal Theta Activity in Psychiatric Illness: An Index of Cognitive Vulnerabilities Across Disorders

McLoughlin

Gyurkovics

Palmer

et al. 2022

Biological Psychiatry

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“…For example, individuals with attentional problems exhibit more difficulties coping with stress than control participants (Wender, 1995). Inattention problems related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 1 (ADHD) are associated with comorbid anxiety, depression, and interpersonal relationship problems (Biederman, Newcorn, & Sprich, 1991;Friedrichs et al, 2012;Young, 2005); these comorbidities are also related to greater vulnerability to stress and poor coping skills (Bayram & Bilgel, 2008;Birk, Rogers, Shahane, & Urry, 2018;Connor-Smith & Compas, 2004). High propensity toward negative affect, which is associated with amygdala and cingulate cortex reactivity to threat or stress, is also seen as a marker for inattentiverelated ADHD when in an elevated range (Nigg, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Implicit reappraisal as an emotional buffer: Reappraisal-related neural activity moderates the relationship between inattention and perceived stress during exposure to negative stimuli

Shahane

Lopez

Denny

2018

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Emotion regulation often is an adaptive option in the face of elevated perceived stress. Perceived stress has been shown to have negative consequences for physical and mental health, including cognitive deficits and difficulties controlling attention. Cognitive reappraisal is an emotion regulation strategy that involves changing one's cognitive construal of an emotionally evocative stimulus to alter its emotional impact. Reappraisal can be implemented explicitly or implicitly (i.e., with or without conscious awareness). The objective of the present study was to examine whether implicit cognitive reappraisal during exposure to negative stimuli moderates the relationship between inattention and perceived stress. We found, as expected, that inattention problems are associated with increased perceived stress, but also found that one's spontaneous propensity to engage in cognitive reappraisal-as indexed by correspondence with a reliable thresholded whole-brain pattern of reappraisal implementationmoderated the relationship between inattention and perceived stress. Overall, the current study provides evidence that spontaneous reappraisal recruitment has a buffering effect on the relationship between inattention and perceived stress.

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“…16 Finally, a training study has recently demonstrated that when high anxious individuals are trained to utilize a proactive control strategy, they actually exhibit lower heart rate and feelings of anxiety when faced with a subsequent stressor. 17 Altogether, both theoretical and empirical data suggest that a hallmark of anxiety may be an increased reliance on more transient, reactive control processes; such reliance on reactive control may or may not be accompanied by deficits in more sustained, proactive control processes. While these data are important for understanding anxious cognition in adulthood, we are not aware of any work examining how perturbations in cognitive control relate to anxiety during childhood.…”

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Consequences of Not Planning Ahead: Reduced Proactive Control Moderates Longitudinal Relations Between Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety

Troller‐Renfree

Buzzell

Pine

et al. 2019

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psych

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Objective: Children with the temperament of Behavioral Inhibition (BI) face increased risk for developing an anxiety disorder later in life. However, not all children with BI manifest anxiety symptoms, and cognitive-control-strategy use may moderate the pathway between BI and anxiety. Individuals vary widely in the strategy used to instantiate control; the present study examined whether a more planful style of cognitive control (i.e. proactive control) or a more impulsive strategy of control (i.e. reactive control) moderates the association between early BI and later anxiety symptoms.Method: Participants were part of a longitudinal study examining the relations between BI (measured at 2-3 years) and later anxiety symptoms (measured at 13 years). Cognitive control strategy use was assessed at age 13 using the AX variant of the Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT).Results: BI in toddlerhood significantly predicted increased use of a more reactive cognitive control style in adolescence. Additionally, cognitive control strategy moderated the relation between BI and anxious symptoms, such that reliance on a more reactive strategy predicted higher levels of anxiety for children high in BI. Conclusion:The present study is the first to identify the specific control strategy that increases risk for anxiety. Thus, is it not cognitive control per se, but the specific control strategy children adopt that may increase risk for anxiety later in life. These findings have important implications for future evidence-based interventions given that they suggest an emphasis reducing reactive cognitive control and increasing proactive cognitive control may reduce anxious cognition.

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The heart of control: Proactive cognitive control training limits anxious cardiac arousal under stress

Cited by 8 publications

References 46 publications

Midfrontal Theta Activity in Psychiatric Illness: An Index of Cognitive Vulnerabilities Across Disorders

Midfrontal Theta Activity in Psychiatric Illness: An Index of Cognitive Vulnerabilities Across Disorders

Implicit reappraisal as an emotional buffer: Reappraisal-related neural activity moderates the relationship between inattention and perceived stress during exposure to negative stimuli

Consequences of Not Planning Ahead: Reduced Proactive Control Moderates Longitudinal Relations Between Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety

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