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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 119, Issue 42, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205162119
Keywords
diffusion-weighted imaging; amygdala; prefrontal cortex; trait anxiety; representational similarity
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- National Research Foundation of Korea
- [NRF-2021R1F1A1045988]
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This study reveals a generalizable pattern of brain-anxiety association that is embedded within the shared geometries between fiber tract morphology and trait anxiety data.
Stronger amygdala-ventral prefrontal white matter connectivity has been associated with lower trait anxiety, possibly reflecting an increased capacity for efficient communi-cation between the two regions. However, there are also reports arguing against this brain-anxiety association. To address these inconsistencies in the literature, we tested the possibility that idiosyncratic tract morphology may account for meaningful individ-ual differences in trait anxiety, even among those with comparable microstructural integrity. Here, we adopted intersubject representational similarity analysis, an analytic framework that captures multivariate patterns of similarity, to analyze the morphologi-cal similarity of amygdala-ventral prefrontal pathways. Data drawn from the Leipzig Study for Mind-Body-Emotion Interactions dataset showed that younger adults (20 to 35 y of age) with low trait anxiety, in contrast to trait-anxious individuals, had consis-tently similar morphological configurations in their left amygdala-ventral prefrontal pathways. Additional tests on an independent sample of older adults (60 to 75 y of age) validated this finding. Our study reveals a generalizable pattern of brain-anxiety associ-ation that is embedded within the shared geometries between fiber tract morphology and trait anxiety data.
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