期刊
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 221, 期 1, 页码 237-245出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.045
关键词
fMRI; Conditioning; Psychophysiological interaction; Connectivity; Insula; PPI
资金
- National Institutes of Health [1R01MH081975]
- Centre Hospital-ier Universitaite Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Societe Acadernique Vaudoise, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Ev. Studienwerk Villigst (Schwerte, Germany)
- MircoTransponders
Human imaging studies examining fear conditioning have mainly focused on the neural responses to conditioned cues. In contrast, the neural basis of the unconditioned response and the mechanisms by which fear modulates inter-regional functional coupling have received limited attention. We examined the neural responses to an unconditioned stimulus using a partial-reinforcement fear conditioning paradigm and functional MRI. The analysis focused on: (1) the effects of an unconditioned stimulus (an electric shock) that was either expected and actually delivered, or expected but not delivered, and (2) on how related brain activity changed across conditioning trials, and (3) how shock expectation influenced interregional coupling within the fear network. We found that: (1) the delivery of the shock engaged the red nucleus, amygdale, dorsal striatum, insula, somatosensory and cingulate cortices, (2) when the shock was expected but not delivered, only the red nucleus, the anterior insular and dorsal anterior cingulate cortices showed activity increases that were sustained across trials, and (3) psycho-physiological interaction analysis demonstrated that fear led to increased red nucleus coupling to insula but decreased hippocampus coupling to the red nucleus, thalamus and cerebellum. The hippocampus and the anterior insula may serve as hubs facilitating the switch between engagement of a defensive immediate fear network and a resting network. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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