期刊
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 78, 期 9, 页码 606-614出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.12.016
关键词
Anorexia nervosa; Decision-making; Delay discounting; Eating disorders; Imaging; Longitudinal
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health [K23MH076195]
- Klarman Family Foundation Award in Eating Disorders
- US National Science Foundation [NSF SES-0922743]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PA001-115327]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [T32GM007739]
- Global Foundation for Eating Disorders
- National Eating Disorder Association
BACKGROUND: Individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) override the drive to eat, forgoing immediate rewards in favor of longer-term goals. We examined delay discounting and its neural correlates in AN before and after treatment to test a potential mechanism of illness persistence. METHODS: Inpatients with AN (n = 59) and healthy control subjects (HC, n = 39) performed a delay discounting task at two time points. A subset (n - 30 AN, n - 22 HC) participated in functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning during the task. The task consisted of a range of monetary choices with variable delay times, yielding individual discount rates-the rate by which money loses value over time. RESULTS: Before treatment, the AN group showed a preference for delayed over earlier rewards (i.e., less steep discount rates) compared with HC; after weight restoration, AN did not differ from HC. Underweight AN showed slower response times for earlier versus delayed choices; this reversed with treatment. Underweight AN showed abnormal neural activity in striatum and dorsal anterior cingulate; normalization of behavior was associated with increased activation in reward regions (striatum and dorsal anterior cingulate) and decision-making regions (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex). CONCLUSIONS: The undernourished state of AN may amplify the tendency to forgo immediate rewards in favor of longer-term goals. The results suggest that behavior that looks phenotypically like excessive self-control does not correspond with enhanced prefrontal recruitment. Rather, the results point to alterations in cingulostriatal circuitry that offer new insights on the potential role of abnormalities in decision-making neural systems in the perpetuation of AN.
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