Anticipating agoraphobic situations: the neural correlates of panic disorder with agoraphobia
Anticipating agoraphobic situations: the neural correlates of panic disorder with agoraphobia
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预测广场恐惧症情况:恐慌症与广场恐惧症的神经相关性
DOI:
10.1017/s0033291713003085
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
6.9
通讯作者:
Ströhle A
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作者:
Wittmann A;Schlagenhauf F;Guhn A;Lueken U;Stoy M;Bermpohl F;Fydrich T;Pfleiderer B;Bruhn H;Gerlach AL;Kircher T;Straube B;Wittchen HU;Arolt V;Heinz A;Ströhle A
BackgroundPanic disorder with agoraphobia is characterized by panic attacks and anxiety in situations where escape might be difficult. However, neuroimaging studies specifically focusing on agoraphobia are rare. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with disorder-specific stimuli to investigate the neural substrates of agoraphobia.MethodWe compared the neural activations of 72 patients suffering from panic disorder with agoraphobia with 72 matched healthy control subjects in a 3-T fMRI study. To isolate agoraphobia-specific alterations we tested the effects of the anticipation and perception of an agoraphobia-specific stimulus set. During fMRI, 48 agoraphobia-specific and 48 neutral pictures were randomly presented with and without anticipatory stimulus indicating the content of the subsequent pictures (Westphal paradigm).ResultsDuring the anticipation of agoraphobia-specific pictures, stronger activations were found in the bilateral ventral striatum and left insula in patients compared with controls. There were no group differences during the perception phase of agoraphobia-specific pictures.ConclusionsThis study revealed stronger region-specific activations in patients suffering from panic disorder with agoraphobia in anticipation of agoraphobia-specific stimuli. Patients seem to process these stimuli more intensively based on individual salience. Hyperactivation of the ventral striatum and insula when anticipating agoraphobia-specific situations might be a central neurofunctional correlate of agoraphobia. Knowledge about the neural correlates of anticipatory and perceptual processes regarding agoraphobic situations will help to optimize and evaluate treatments, such as exposure therapy, in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia.
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影响因子:
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作者:
Guyer, Amanda E.;Lau, Jennifer Y. F.;McClure-Tone, Erin B.;Parrish, Jessica;Shiffrin, Nina D.;Reynolds, Richard C.;Chen, Gang;Blair, R. J. R.;Leibenluft, Ellen;Fox, Nathan A.;Ernst, Monique;Pine, Daniel S.;Nelson, Eric E.
通讯作者:
Nelson, Eric E.
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
Menon, Vinod;Uddin, Lucina Q.
通讯作者:
Uddin, Lucina Q.
影响因子:
--
作者:
Kessler, RC;Chiu, WT;Walters, EE
通讯作者:
Walters, EE
影响因子:
2.3
作者:
Herwig, Uwe;Abler, Birgit;Erk, Susanne
通讯作者:
Erk, Susanne
DOI:
10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11010006
发表时间:
2012-02
期刊:
The American journal of psychiatry
影响因子:
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作者:
Guyer AE;Choate VR;Detloff A;Benson B;Nelson EE;Perez-Edgar K;Fox NA;Pine DS;Ernst M
通讯作者:
Ernst M