Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety

Abstract The amygdala plays a critical role in emotion. Its functional coupling with the hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex extending to a portion of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is implicated in anxiogenesis and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system regulation. However, it...

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Autores principales: Yuko Hakamata, Shotaro Komi, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Shuhei Izawa, Yuki Motomura, Eisuke Sato, Shinya Mizukami, Yoshiharu Kim, Takashi Hanakawa, Yusuke Inoue, Hirokuni Tagaya
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1d3afdc8420e4db4a29d9c05c4b876f22021-12-02T12:32:51ZAmygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety10.1038/s41598-017-08918-72045-2322https://doaj.org/article/1d3afdc8420e4db4a29d9c05c4b876f22017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08918-7https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract The amygdala plays a critical role in emotion. Its functional coupling with the hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex extending to a portion of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is implicated in anxiogenesis and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system regulation. However, it remains unclear how amygdala-centred functional connectivity (FC) affects anxiety and cortisol concentrations in everyday life. Here, we investigate the relationship between daily cortisol concentrations (dCOR) and amygdala-centred FC during emotional processing in forty-one healthy humans. FC analyses revealed that higher dCOR predicted strengthened amygdala-centred FC with the hippocampus and cerebellum, but inhibited FC with the supramarginal gyrus and a perigenual part of the ACC (pgACC) when processing fearful faces (vs. neutral faces). Notably, the strength of amygdala-hippocampus FC mediated the positive relationship between cortisol and anxiety, specifically when the effect of amygdala-pgACC FC, a presumptive neural indicator of emotional control, was taken into account. Individuals with diminished connectivity between the amygdala and pgACC during fear-related processing might be more vulnerable to anxiogenesis as it pertains to greater circulating cortisol levels in everyday life. Individual functional patterns of amygdala-hippocampal-pgACC connectivity might provide a key to understand the complicate link between cortisol and anxiety-related behaviors.Yuko HakamataShotaro KomiYoshiya MoriguchiShuhei IzawaYuki MotomuraEisuke SatoShinya MizukamiYoshiharu KimTakashi HanakawaYusuke InoueHirokuni TagayaNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2017)
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Yuko Hakamata
Shotaro Komi
Yoshiya Moriguchi
Shuhei Izawa
Yuki Motomura
Eisuke Sato
Shinya Mizukami
Yoshiharu Kim
Takashi Hanakawa
Yusuke Inoue
Hirokuni Tagaya
Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety
description Abstract The amygdala plays a critical role in emotion. Its functional coupling with the hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex extending to a portion of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is implicated in anxiogenesis and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system regulation. However, it remains unclear how amygdala-centred functional connectivity (FC) affects anxiety and cortisol concentrations in everyday life. Here, we investigate the relationship between daily cortisol concentrations (dCOR) and amygdala-centred FC during emotional processing in forty-one healthy humans. FC analyses revealed that higher dCOR predicted strengthened amygdala-centred FC with the hippocampus and cerebellum, but inhibited FC with the supramarginal gyrus and a perigenual part of the ACC (pgACC) when processing fearful faces (vs. neutral faces). Notably, the strength of amygdala-hippocampus FC mediated the positive relationship between cortisol and anxiety, specifically when the effect of amygdala-pgACC FC, a presumptive neural indicator of emotional control, was taken into account. Individuals with diminished connectivity between the amygdala and pgACC during fear-related processing might be more vulnerable to anxiogenesis as it pertains to greater circulating cortisol levels in everyday life. Individual functional patterns of amygdala-hippocampal-pgACC connectivity might provide a key to understand the complicate link between cortisol and anxiety-related behaviors.
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author Yuko Hakamata
Shotaro Komi
Yoshiya Moriguchi
Shuhei Izawa
Yuki Motomura
Eisuke Sato
Shinya Mizukami
Yoshiharu Kim
Takashi Hanakawa
Yusuke Inoue
Hirokuni Tagaya
author_facet Yuko Hakamata
Shotaro Komi
Yoshiya Moriguchi
Shuhei Izawa
Yuki Motomura
Eisuke Sato
Shinya Mizukami
Yoshiharu Kim
Takashi Hanakawa
Yusuke Inoue
Hirokuni Tagaya
author_sort Yuko Hakamata
title Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety
title_short Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety
title_full Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety
title_fullStr Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety
title_full_unstemmed Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety
title_sort amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: a putative link with anxiety
publisher Nature Portfolio
publishDate 2017
url https://doaj.org/article/1d3afdc8420e4db4a29d9c05c4b876f2
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