期刊
STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS
卷 24, 期 1, 页码 64-75出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10253890.2020.1777972
关键词
Exhaustion disorder; prefrontal cortex; functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); cognition; stroop effect; processing speed
资金
- Local Research and Development Council Goteborg and SodraBohuslan
- Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet) [721-2014-2468, 521-2014-3224]
- Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation (Barncancerfonden) [MT2017-0013]
- Swedish state under the ALF agreement [ALFGBG-726541]
The study found that patients with Exhaustion Disorder (ED) have altered functional activity in the prefrontal cortex, indicating a difference in information processing in the prefrontal cortex compared to healthy individuals.
Patients with stress-related Exhaustion Disorder (ED) have problems with memory and executive function. These problems have been associated with deviant activity in prefrontal cortex (PFC). We investigated cognitive performance and functional activity in the PFC during prolonged mental activity in patients with ED (n = 20, 16 women) with a mean duration since diagnosis of 46 +/- 23 months in comparison to healthy individuals (n = 20, 12 women). A block of six neuropsychological tests was performed in a sequence that was repeated once. The brain imaging technique, functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used for all tests. There were no differences between the groups in terms of changes over time, i.e. difference between first and second test block. In the Stroop-Simon test, the controls showedhigher functional activity in the frontal cortex. In the left ventrolateral PFC, we observed an increased activity in controls in the incongruent compared to the congruent trials, whereas no changes were detected in the ED patient group. During processing speed tasks, only ED patients showed higher functional activity in right dorsolateral PFC. The ED patients reported lower subjective energy level and they also performed less well on a mental control task compared to healthy individuals. In conclusion, ED patients showed altered functional activity compared to controls, indicating that ED patients process information differently in the prefrontal cortex, but the functional activity did not change during the 21/2 hr procedure, as revealed by the test-retest design. Lay summary In this paper we show that patient with exhaustion disorder have a reduced functional activity in the prefrontal cortex. This functional activity was not affected by 2.5 hours mental activity.
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