Altered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia

Deficits in emotion processing are a core feature of schizophrenia, but their neurobiological bases are poorly understood. Previous research, mainly focused on emotional face processing and emotion recognition deficits, has shown controverted results. Furthermore, the use of faces has been questione...

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Autores principales: Maria Angeles Garcia-Leon, Paola Fuentes-Claramonte, Alicia Valiente-Gómez, Carmen Natividad, Pilar Salgado-Pineda, Jesús J. Gomar, Amalia Guerrero-Pedraza, Francisco Portillo, Jordi Ortiz-Gil, Silvia Alonso-Lana, Teresa Maristany, Joaquim Raduà, Raymond Salvador, Salvador Sarró, Edith Pomarol-Clotet
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:dee99548348946b7b15b4485e226cc722021-12-02T05:01:30ZAltered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia2213-158210.1016/j.nicl.2021.102894https://doaj.org/article/dee99548348946b7b15b4485e226cc722021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158221003387https://doaj.org/toc/2213-1582Deficits in emotion processing are a core feature of schizophrenia, but their neurobiological bases are poorly understood. Previous research, mainly focused on emotional face processing and emotion recognition deficits, has shown controverted results. Furthermore, the use of faces has been questioned for not entailing an appropriate stimulus to study emotional processing. This highlights the importance of investigating emotional processing abnormalities using evocative stimuli. For the first time, we have studied the brain responses to scenic stimuli in patients with schizophrenia. We selected scenes from the IAPS that elicit fear, disgust, happiness, and sadness. Twenty-six patients with schizophrenia and thirty age-, sex- and premorbid IQ-matched healthy controls were included. Behavioral task results show that patients tended to misclassify disgust and sadness as fear. Brain responses in patients were different from controls in images eliciting disgust and fear. In response to disgust images, patients hyperactivated the right temporal cortex, which was not activated by the controls. With fear images, hyperactivation was observed in brain regions involved in fear processing, including midline regions from the medial frontal cortex to the anterior cingulate cortex, the superior frontal gyrus, inferior and superior temporal cortex, and visual areas. These results suggest that schizophrenia is characterized by hyper-responsivity to stimuli evoking high-arousal, negative emotions, and a bias towards fear in emotion recognition.Maria Angeles Garcia-LeonPaola Fuentes-ClaramonteAlicia Valiente-GómezCarmen NatividadPilar Salgado-PinedaJesús J. GomarAmalia Guerrero-PedrazaFrancisco PortilloJordi Ortiz-GilSilvia Alonso-LanaTeresa MaristanyJoaquim RaduàRaymond SalvadorSalvador SarróEdith Pomarol-ClotetElsevierarticleSchizophreniaIAPSScenic stimulifMRIEmotionsComputer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsR858-859.7Neurology. Diseases of the nervous systemRC346-429ENNeuroImage: Clinical, Vol 32, Iss , Pp 102894- (2021)
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collection DOAJ
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topic Schizophrenia
IAPS
Scenic stimuli
fMRI
Emotions
Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
R858-859.7
Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
RC346-429
spellingShingle Schizophrenia
IAPS
Scenic stimuli
fMRI
Emotions
Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
R858-859.7
Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
RC346-429
Maria Angeles Garcia-Leon
Paola Fuentes-Claramonte
Alicia Valiente-Gómez
Carmen Natividad
Pilar Salgado-Pineda
Jesús J. Gomar
Amalia Guerrero-Pedraza
Francisco Portillo
Jordi Ortiz-Gil
Silvia Alonso-Lana
Teresa Maristany
Joaquim Raduà
Raymond Salvador
Salvador Sarró
Edith Pomarol-Clotet
Altered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia
description Deficits in emotion processing are a core feature of schizophrenia, but their neurobiological bases are poorly understood. Previous research, mainly focused on emotional face processing and emotion recognition deficits, has shown controverted results. Furthermore, the use of faces has been questioned for not entailing an appropriate stimulus to study emotional processing. This highlights the importance of investigating emotional processing abnormalities using evocative stimuli. For the first time, we have studied the brain responses to scenic stimuli in patients with schizophrenia. We selected scenes from the IAPS that elicit fear, disgust, happiness, and sadness. Twenty-six patients with schizophrenia and thirty age-, sex- and premorbid IQ-matched healthy controls were included. Behavioral task results show that patients tended to misclassify disgust and sadness as fear. Brain responses in patients were different from controls in images eliciting disgust and fear. In response to disgust images, patients hyperactivated the right temporal cortex, which was not activated by the controls. With fear images, hyperactivation was observed in brain regions involved in fear processing, including midline regions from the medial frontal cortex to the anterior cingulate cortex, the superior frontal gyrus, inferior and superior temporal cortex, and visual areas. These results suggest that schizophrenia is characterized by hyper-responsivity to stimuli evoking high-arousal, negative emotions, and a bias towards fear in emotion recognition.
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author Maria Angeles Garcia-Leon
Paola Fuentes-Claramonte
Alicia Valiente-Gómez
Carmen Natividad
Pilar Salgado-Pineda
Jesús J. Gomar
Amalia Guerrero-Pedraza
Francisco Portillo
Jordi Ortiz-Gil
Silvia Alonso-Lana
Teresa Maristany
Joaquim Raduà
Raymond Salvador
Salvador Sarró
Edith Pomarol-Clotet
author_facet Maria Angeles Garcia-Leon
Paola Fuentes-Claramonte
Alicia Valiente-Gómez
Carmen Natividad
Pilar Salgado-Pineda
Jesús J. Gomar
Amalia Guerrero-Pedraza
Francisco Portillo
Jordi Ortiz-Gil
Silvia Alonso-Lana
Teresa Maristany
Joaquim Raduà
Raymond Salvador
Salvador Sarró
Edith Pomarol-Clotet
author_sort Maria Angeles Garcia-Leon
title Altered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia
title_short Altered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia
title_full Altered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia
title_fullStr Altered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia
title_full_unstemmed Altered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia
title_sort altered brain responses to specific negative emotions in schizophrenia
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/dee99548348946b7b15b4485e226cc72
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