期刊
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
卷 51, 期 4, 页码 587-595出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291719003507
关键词
Diagnosis; functional magnetic resonance imaging; posttraumatic stress disorder; prolonged grief disorder
资金
- NHMRC [1073041]
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1073041] Funding Source: NHMRC
This study investigated distinctive neural processes underpinning emotion processing in participants with Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) compared to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The results showed that PGD had unique neural activation patterns, particularly during processing of happy and sad faces, compared to PTSD and MDD groups. These findings provide initial evidence of distinct neural profiles of PGD and highlight the activation of neural regions implicated in reward networks.
Background Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) has recently been recognized as a separate psychiatric diagnosis, despite controversy over the extent to which it is distinctive from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). Methods This study investigated distinctive neural processes underpinning emotion processing in participants with PGD, PTSD, and MDD with functional magnetic resonance study of 117 participants that included PGD (n = 21), PTSD (n = 45), MDD (n = 26), and bereaved controls (BC) (n = 25). Neural responses were measured across the brain while sad, happy, or neutral faces were presented at both supraliminal and subliminal levels. Results PGD had greater activation in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pgACC), bilateral insula, bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortices and right caudate and also greater pgACC-right pallidum connectivity relative to BC during subliminal processing of happy faces. PGD was distinct relative to both PTSD and MDD groups with greater recruitment of the medial orbitofrontal cortex during supraliminal processing of sad faces. PGD were also distinct relative to MDD (but not PTSD) with greater activation in the left amygdala, caudate, and putamen during subliminal presentation of sad faces. There was no distinction between PGD, PTSD, and MDD during processing of happy faces. Conclusions These results provide initial evidence of distinct neural profiles of PGD relative to related psychopathological conditions, and highlight activation of neural regions implicated in reward networks. This pattern of findings validates current models of PGD that emphasize the roles of yearning and appetitive processes in PGD.
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