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Brain Behav ; 12(1): e2413, 2022 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34907666

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with markers of accelerated aging. Estimates of brain age, compared to chronological age, may clarify the effects of PTSD on the brain and may inform treatment approaches targeting the neurobiology of aging in the context of PTSD. METHOD: Adult subjects (N = 2229; 56.2% male) aged 18-69 years (mean = 35.6, SD = 11.0) from 21 ENIGMA-PGC PTSD sites underwent T1-weighted brain structural magnetic resonance imaging, and PTSD assessment (PTSD+, n = 884). Previously trained voxel-wise (brainageR) and region-of-interest (BARACUS and PHOTON) machine learning pipelines were compared in a subset of control subjects (n = 386). Linear mixed effects models were conducted in the full sample (those with and without PTSD) to examine the effect of PTSD on brain predicted age difference (brain PAD; brain age - chronological age) controlling for chronological age, sex, and scan site. RESULTS: BrainageR most accurately predicted brain age in a subset (n = 386) of controls (brainageR: ICC = 0.71, R = 0.72, MAE = 5.68; PHOTON: ICC = 0.61, R = 0.62, MAE = 6.37; BARACUS: ICC = 0.47, R = 0.64, MAE = 8.80). Using brainageR, a three-way interaction revealed that young males with PTSD exhibited higher brain PAD relative to male controls in young and old age groups; old males with PTSD exhibited lower brain PAD compared to male controls of all ages. DISCUSSION: Differential impact of PTSD on brain PAD in younger versus older males may indicate a critical window when PTSD impacts brain aging, followed by age-related brain changes that are consonant with individuals without PTSD. Future longitudinal research is warranted to understand how PTSD impacts brain aging across the lifespan.


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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aging , Brain/diagnostic imaging , Brain/pathology , Female , Humans , Machine Learning , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Male , Middle Aged , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/diagnostic imaging , Young Adult
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J Clin Exp Neuropsychol ; 43(8): 813-824, 2021 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34493155

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OBJECTIVE: Neuropsychological impairments are observed in individuals with Bipolar Disorder (BD), yet knowledge of how cognitive deficits unfold in real-time remains limited. Given intraindividual variability in mood observed in people with BD, and the potential for mood and cognition to be mutually influential, we employed ambulatory assessment technologies to examine potential contemporaneous (same survey) and lagged (next survey) relationships of congition and mood. METHODS: Outpatients with BD (n = 46) or no psychiatric disorders (heathy volunteers [HV]; n = 20) completed in-laboratory neurobehavioral assessments and 14 days of smartphone-administered mobile cognitive tests and ratings of affective variables. Linear mixed-effects models were used to analyze real-time relationships between mobile cognitive test performance and mood. RESULTS: On in-laboratory tests, participants with BD showed worse cognitive performance than HVs as well as mild depression severity; mood and cognitive performance were unrelated. On mobile cognitive tests and surveys, participants with BD showed somewhat worse cognitive performance and ratings of lower energy and greater sadness relative to HV participants. Among those with BD, mania and sadness earlier in the day related to worse processing speed and better working memory performance, respectively, on the next survey. In contrast, same survey ratings of greater stress related to better working memory, and greater happiness related to better processing speed. CONCLUSIONS: Real-time assessments of mood and cognition provide incremental information beyond what can be gleaned from laboratory assessments. Understanding how these affect-related changes in processing speed emerge and play out in daily life may provide clinically useful information for treatment planning.


Subject(s)
Bipolar Disorder , Cognition Disorders , Cognitive Dysfunction , Affect , Bipolar Disorder/complications , Bipolar Disorder/psychology , Cognition , Cognition Disorders/psychology , Cognitive Dysfunction/diagnosis , Cognitive Dysfunction/etiology , Humans , Neuropsychological Tests
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Behav Res Ther ; 93: 6-12, 2017 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28342947

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is empirically supported for the treatment of anxiety disorders; however, not all individuals achieve recovery following CBT. Positive emotions serve a number of functions that theoretically should facilitate response to CBT - they promote flexible patterns of information processing and assimilation of new information, encourage approach-oriented behavior, and speed physiological recovery from negative emotions. We conducted a secondary analysis of an existing clinical trial dataset to test the a priori hypothesis that individual differences in trait positive emotions would predict CBT response for anxiety. METHOD: Participants meeting diagnostic criteria for panic disorder (n = 28) or generalized anxiety disorder (n = 31) completed 10 weekly individual CBT sessions. Trait positive emotionality was assessed at pre-treatment, and severity of anxiety symptoms and associated impairment was assessed throughout treatment. RESULTS: Participants who reported a greater propensity to experience positive emotions at pre-treatment displayed the largest reduction in anxiety symptoms as well as fewer symptoms following treatment. Positive emotions remained a robust predictor of change in symptoms when controlling for baseline depression severity. CONCLUSIONS: Initial evidence supports the predictive value of trait positive emotions as a prognostic indicator for CBT outcome in a GAD and PD sample.


Subject(s)
Anxiety Disorders/therapy , Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/methods , Emotions/physiology , Personality/physiology , Adult , Anxiety Disorders/diagnosis , Anxiety Disorders/psychology , Female , Humans , Male , Personality Assessment , Predictive Value of Tests , Severity of Illness Index , Treatment Outcome , Young Adult
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J Anxiety Disord ; 23(8): 1080-5, 2009 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19682854

ABSTRACT

Research suggests that individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) selectively attend to threat-relevant information. However, little is known about how initial detection of threat influences the processing of subsequently encountered stimuli. To address this issue, we used a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm (RSVP; Raymond, J. E., Shapiro, K. L., & Arnell, K. M. (1992). Temporary suppression of visual processing in an RSVP task: An attentional blink? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 849-860) to examine temporal allocation of attention to threat-related and neutral stimuli in individuals with PTSD symptoms (PTS), traumatized individuals without PTSD symptoms (TC), and non-anxious controls (NAC). Participants were asked to identify one or two targets in an RSVP stream. Typically processing of the first target decreases accuracy of identifying the second target as a function of the temporal lag between targets. Results revealed that the PTS group was significantly more accurate in detecting a neutral target when it was presented 300 or 500ms after threat-related stimuli compared to when the target followed neutral stimuli. These results suggest that individuals with PTSD may process trauma-relevant information more rapidly and efficiently than benign information.


Subject(s)
Arousal , Attention , Attentional Blink , Fear , Pattern Recognition, Visual , Semantics , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/diagnosis , Adolescent , Anxiety/diagnosis , Anxiety/psychology , Avoidance Learning , Color Perception , Female , Humans , Life Change Events , Male , Reaction Time , Serial Learning , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/psychology , Young Adult
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