Tommaso B Jannini, Valentina Socci, Adriano Schimmenti, Grazia Terrone, Lucia Sideli, Luis Alameda, Monica Aas, Giorgio Di Lorenzo, Cinzia Niolu, Rodolfo Rossi
{"title":"Mapping connections between complex post-traumatic stress disorder and psychotic-like experiences among adolescents: a Gaussian and Bayesian network study.","authors":"Tommaso B Jannini, Valentina Socci, Adriano Schimmenti, Grazia Terrone, Lucia Sideli, Luis Alameda, Monica Aas, Giorgio Di Lorenzo, Cinzia Niolu, Rodolfo Rossi","doi":"10.1017/S0033291725000169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291725000169","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) is a newly recognized condition characterized by core PTSD symptoms and disturbances in self-organization (DSO) that has been associated with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). This study employs two psychopathology network approaches to identify which post-traumatic symptoms are related to PLEs in a sample of late adolescents. We propose that cPTSD symptoms play a crucial role in explaining the co-occurrence of trauma and PLEs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A sample of 1010 late adolescents provided measures of post-traumatic symptomatology and PLEs. We estimated the Gaussian graphical network structure of PTSD/cPTSD symptoms and PLEs and assessed their bridge centrality indices. Bayesian network analysis was then used to estimate a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Gender was set as a moderator in both Gaussian and Bayesian models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results show that affect dysregulation, a cPTSD domain, presented the highest bridge connection with the PLE cluster. Bayesian network analysis identified a pathway going from cPTSD items of worthlessness and relational dysregulation, to PLE items of paranoia and social anxiety. Additionally, we found relevant gender differences in network connectivity, with females showing higher connectivity compared to males.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings highlight the central role of affect dysregulation and negative self-concept in linking cPTSD to PLE symptoms, with specific differences according to gender. These insights underscore the need for targeted, gender-sensitive approaches in the prevention and treatment of PLEs among adolescents, emphasizing early intervention and tailored treatment strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e61"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143493299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nikolaus Kleindienst, Regina Steil, Kathlen Priebe, Meike Müller-Engelmann, Petra Lindauer, Annegret Krause-Utz, Franziska Friedmann, Christian Schmahl, Frank Enning, Martin Bohus
{"title":"Is dissociation predicting the efficacy of psychological therapies for PTSD? Results from a randomized controlled trial comparing Dialectical Behavior Therapy for PTSD (DBT-PTSD) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT).","authors":"Nikolaus Kleindienst, Regina Steil, Kathlen Priebe, Meike Müller-Engelmann, Petra Lindauer, Annegret Krause-Utz, Franziska Friedmann, Christian Schmahl, Frank Enning, Martin Bohus","doi":"10.1017/S0033291724003453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724003453","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Neuropsychological evidence suggests that dissociation might disturb emotional learning, which is a fundamental mechanism of psychotherapy. However, a recent meta-analysis on the impact of dissociation on treatment outcomes in psychotherapy trials for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reported inconsistent results and concluded that further high-quality clinical trials are needed to test whether dissociation affects the efficacy of psychotherapies. We had two main aims: First, to test whether the efficacy of two evidence-based psychotherapies for individuals with trauma-related PTSD is affected by the level of pretreatment dissociation. Second, we investigated whether a significant reduction in dissociation at an early stage of treatment is beneficial for subsequent efficacy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The potential impact of dissociation on efficacy was studied in 193 women with PTSD related to childhood abuse who were randomized to dialectical behavior therapy for PTSD (DBT-PTSD) or cognitive processing therapy (CPT). Efficacy was operationalized as a change in the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS). Dissociation was assessed with the Dissociation Tension Scale (DSS). The analyses accounted for major confounders (in particular initial PTSD severity).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two main findings emerged from this study. First, baseline dissociation was a negative predictor for treatment efficacy. Second, a significant drop in dissociation at the initial stages of treatment was beneficial for subsequent efficacy.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Dissociation likely reduces the efficacy of trauma-focused therapies. Accordingly, successful reduction of dissociation at an early stage of treatment assists the efficacy of trauma-focused psychotherapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e59"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143483967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sung Woo Joo, Junhyeok Lee, Juhyuk Han, Minjae Kim, Yeonwoo Kim, Howook Lee, Young Tak Jo, Jaewook Shin, Jungsun Lee, Won Hee Lee
{"title":"Disparities in accelerated brain aging in recent-onset and chronic schizophrenia.","authors":"Sung Woo Joo, Junhyeok Lee, Juhyuk Han, Minjae Kim, Yeonwoo Kim, Howook Lee, Young Tak Jo, Jaewook Shin, Jungsun Lee, Won Hee Lee","doi":"10.1017/S0033291725000285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291725000285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Patients with schizophrenia experience accelerated aging, accompanied by abnormalities in biomarkers such as shorter telomere length. Brain age prediction using neuroimaging data has gained attention in schizophrenia research, with consistently reported increases in brain-predicted age difference (brain-PAD). However, its associations with clinical symptoms and illness duration remain unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We developed brain age prediction models using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 10,938 healthy individuals. The models were validated on an independent test dataset comprising 79 healthy controls, 57 patients with recent-onset schizophrenia, and 71 patients with chronic schizophrenia. Group comparisons and the clinical associations of brain-PAD were analyzed using multiple linear regression. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values estimated feature contributions to the model, and between-group differences in SHAP values and group-by-SHAP value interactions were also examined.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and chronic schizophrenia exhibited increased brain-PAD values of 1.2 and 0.9 years, respectively. Between-group differences in SHAP values were identified in the right lateral prefrontal area (false discovery rate [FDR] p = 0.022), with group-by-SHAP value interactions observed in the left prefrontal area (FDR p = 0.049). A negative association between brain-PAD and Full-scale Intelligence Quotient scores in chronic schizophrenia was noted, which did not remain significant after correction for multiple comparisons.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Brain-PAD increases were pronounced in the early phase of schizophrenia. Regional brain abnormalities contributing to brain-PAD likely vary with illness duration. Future longitudinal studies are required to overcome limitations related to sample size, heterogeneity, and the cross-sectional design of this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e60"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143483963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yiwen Zhu, Katherine H Shutta, Tianyi Huang, Raji Balasubramanian, Oana A Zeleznik, Clary B Clish, Julián Ávila-Pacheco, Susan E Hankinson, Laura D Kubzansky
{"title":"Persistent PTSD symptoms are associated with plasma metabolic alterations relevant to long-term health: A metabolome-wide investigation in women - Erratum.","authors":"Yiwen Zhu, Katherine H Shutta, Tianyi Huang, Raji Balasubramanian, Oana A Zeleznik, Clary B Clish, Julián Ávila-Pacheco, Susan E Hankinson, Laura D Kubzansky","doi":"10.1017/S0033291725000339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291725000339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e57"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143459319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter Panayi, Alba Contreras, Emmanuelle Peters, Richard Bentall, Amy Hardy, Katherine Berry, William Sellwood, Robert Dudley, Eleanor Longden, Raphael Underwood, Craig Steel, Hassan Jafari, Liam Mason, Filippo Varese
{"title":"A temporal network analysis of complex post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis symptoms.","authors":"Peter Panayi, Alba Contreras, Emmanuelle Peters, Richard Bentall, Amy Hardy, Katherine Berry, William Sellwood, Robert Dudley, Eleanor Longden, Raphael Underwood, Craig Steel, Hassan Jafari, Liam Mason, Filippo Varese","doi":"10.1017/S0033291725000030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291725000030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) may play a role in the maintenance of psychotic symptoms. Network analyses have shown interrelationships between post-traumatic sequelae and psychosis, but the temporal dynamics of these relationships in people with psychosis and a history of trauma remain unclear. We aimed to explore, using network analysis, the temporal order of relationships between symptoms of cPTSD (i.e. core PTSD and disturbances of self-organization [DSOs]) and psychosis in the flow of daily life.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants with psychosis and comorbid PTSD (<i>N</i> = 153) completed an experience-sampling study involving multiple daily assessments of psychosis (paranoia, voices, and visions), core PTSD (trauma-related intrusions, avoidance, hyperarousal), and DSOs (emotional dysregulation, interpersonal difficulties, negative self-concept) over six consecutive days. Multilevel vector autoregressive modeling was used to estimate three complementary networks representing different timescales.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our between-subjects network suggested that, on average over the testing period, most cPTSD symptoms related to at least one positive psychotic symptom. Many average relationships persist in the contemporaneous network, indicating symptoms of cPTSD and psychosis co-occur, especially paranoia with hyperarousal and negative self-concept. The temporal network suggested that paranoia reciprocally predicted, and was predicted by, hyperarousal, negative self-concept, and emotional dysregulation from moment to moment. cPTSD did not directly relate to voices in the temporal network.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>cPTSD and positive psychosis symptoms mutually maintain each other in trauma-exposed people with psychosis via the maintenance of current threat, consistent with cognitive models of PTSD. Current threat, therefore, represents a valuable treatment target in phased-based trauma-focused psychosis interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e43"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143459349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disrupted intersubject variability architecture in structural and functional brain connectomes in major depressive disorder.","authors":"Keke Fang, Baohong Wen, Liang Liu, Shaoqiang Han, Wenzhou Zhang","doi":"10.1017/S0033291725000078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291725000078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous condition characterized by significant intersubject variability in clinical presentations. Recent neuroimaging studies have indicated that MDD involves altered brain connectivity across widespread regions. However, the variability in abnormal connectivity among MDD patients remains understudied.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Utilizing a large, multi-site dataset comprising 1,276 patients with MDD and 1,104 matched healthy controls, this study aimed to investigate the intersubject variability of structural covariance (IVSC) and functional connectivity (IVFC) in MDD.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients with MDD demonstrated higher IVSC in the precuneus and lingual gyrus, but lower IVSC in the medial frontal gyrus, calcarine, cuneus, and cerebellum anterior lobe. Conversely, they exhibited an overall increase in IVFC across almost the entire brain, including the middle frontal gyrus, anterior cingulate cortex, hippocampus, insula, striatum, and precuneus. Correlation and mediation analyses revealed that abnormal IVSC was positively correlated with gray matter atrophy and mediated the relationship between abnormal IVFC and gray matter atrophy. As the disease progressed, IVFC increased in the left striatum, insula, right lingual gyrus, posterior cingulate, and left calcarine. Pharmacotherapy significantly reduced IVFC in the right insula, superior temporal gyrus, and inferior parietal lobule. Furthermore, we found significant but distinct correlations between abnormal IVSC and IVFC and the distribution of neurotransmitter receptors, suggesting potential molecular underpinnings. Further analysis confirmed that abnormal patterns of IVSC and IVFC were reproducible and MDD specificity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results elucidate the heterogeneity of abnormal connectivity in MDD, underscoring the importance of addressing this heterogeneity in future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e56"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143459356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Ángeles García-León, Paola Fuentes-Claramonte, Abigail Gee, Nuria Ramiro-Sousa, Joan Soler-Vidal, Pilar Salgado-Pineda, Llanos Torres, Nuria Jaurrieta, Manel Sánchez-Pérez, Francesco Panicali, Emilio J Inarejos Clemente, Joaquim Raduà, Salvador Sarró, Raymond Salvador, Peter J McKenna, Edith Pomarol-Clotet
{"title":"Are delusions and/or referentiality associated with aberrant reward prediction error (RPE) signaling? Evidence from fMRI using a probabilistic monetary reward task.","authors":"María Ángeles García-León, Paola Fuentes-Claramonte, Abigail Gee, Nuria Ramiro-Sousa, Joan Soler-Vidal, Pilar Salgado-Pineda, Llanos Torres, Nuria Jaurrieta, Manel Sánchez-Pérez, Francesco Panicali, Emilio J Inarejos Clemente, Joaquim Raduà, Salvador Sarró, Raymond Salvador, Peter J McKenna, Edith Pomarol-Clotet","doi":"10.1017/S0033291724003258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724003258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>According to the aberrant salience proposal, reward processing abnormality, specifically erroneous reward prediction error (RPE) signaling due to stimulus-independent release of dopamine, underlies delusions in schizophrenia. However, no studies to date have examined RPE-associated brain activations in relation to this symptom.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Seventy-eight patients with a DSM-5 diagnosis of schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and 43 healthy individuals underwent fMRI while they performed a probabilistic monetary reward task designed to generate a measure of RPE. Ratings of delusions and referentiality were made in the patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Using whole-brain, voxel-based analysis, schizophrenia patients showed only minor differences in RPE-associated activation compared to healthy controls. Within the patient group, however, severity of delusions was inversely associated with RPE-associated activation in areas including the caudate nucleus, the thalamus and the left pallidum, as well as the lateral frontal cortex bilaterally, the pre- and postcentral gyrus and supplementary motor area, the middle cingulate gyrus, and parts of the temporal and parietal cortex. A broadly similar pattern of association was seen for referentiality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>According to this study, while patients with schizophrenia as a group do not show marked alterations in RPE signaling, delusions and referentiality are associated with reduced activation in parts of the prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia, though not specifically the ventral striatum. The direction of the changes is on the face of it contrary to that predicted by aberrant salience theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e55"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143459353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ji Hyun Lee, Angelina R Sutin, André Hajek, Selin Karakose, Damaris Aschwanden, Páraic S O'Súilleabháin, Yannick Stephan, Antonio Terracciano, Martina Luchetti
{"title":"Loneliness and cognition in older adults: A meta-analysis of harmonized studies from the United States, England, India, China, South Africa, Mexico, and Chile.","authors":"Ji Hyun Lee, Angelina R Sutin, André Hajek, Selin Karakose, Damaris Aschwanden, Páraic S O'Súilleabháin, Yannick Stephan, Antonio Terracciano, Martina Luchetti","doi":"10.1017/S003329172500011X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S003329172500011X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Loneliness is a risk factor for late-life dementia. There is less consistent evidence of its association with cognitive performance. This study examined the replicability of the association between loneliness and overall and domain-specific cognitive function and informant-rated cognitive decline in cohorts from seven countries: the United States, England, India, China, South Africa, Mexico, and Chile.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol administered in seven population-based studies (total N > 20,000). Participants reported their loneliness, completed a battery of cognitive tests, and nominated a knowledgeable informant to rate their cognitive decline. Random-effect meta-analyses were used to summarize the associations from each cohort.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Loneliness was associated with poor overall cognitive performance and informant-rated cognitive decline controlling for sociodemographic factors (meta-analytic correlation for overall cognition = -.10 [95% CI = -.13, -.06] and informant-rated decline = .16 [95% CI = .14, .17]). Despite some heterogeneity, the associations were significant across samples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North, Central, and South America. The meta-analysis also indicated an association with specific cognitive domains: episodic memory, speed-attention, visuospatial abilities, numeric reasoning, and verbal fluency. The associations were attenuated but persisted when depressive symptoms were added as a covariate. Depression, cognitive impairment, and sociodemographic factors did not consistently moderate the associations across samples.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Loneliness is associated with poor performance across multiple domains of cognition and observer-rated cognitive decline, associations that replicated across diverse world regions and cultures.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e58"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11939032/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143459317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Błażej Misiak, Aleksandra Pytel, Bartłomiej Stańczykiewicz
{"title":"A systematic review of studies using network analysis to assess dynamics of psychotic-like experiences in community samples.","authors":"Błażej Misiak, Aleksandra Pytel, Bartłomiej Stańczykiewicz","doi":"10.1017/S0033291725000261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291725000261","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several studies have used a network analysis to recognize the dynamics and determinants of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) in community samples. Their synthesis has not been provided so far. A systematic review of studies using a network analysis to assess the dynamics of PLEs in community samples was performed. Altogether, 27 studies were included. The overall percentage ranks of centrality metrics for PLEs were 23.5% for strength (20 studies), 26.0% for betweenness (5 studies), 29.7% for closeness (6 studies), 26.9% for expected influence (7 studies), and 29.1% for bridge expected influence (3 studies). Included studies covered three topics: phenomenology of PLEs and associated symptom domains (14 studies), exposure to stress and PLEs (7 studies), and PLEs with respect to suicide-related outcomes (6 studies). Several other symptom domains were directly connected to PLEs. A total of 6 studies investigated PLEs with respect to childhood trauma (CT) history. These studies demonstrated that PLEs are directly connected to CT history (4 studies) or a cumulative measure of environmental exposures (1 study). Moreover, CT was found to moderate the association of PLEs with other symptom domains (1 study). Two studies that revealed direct connections of CT with PLEs also found potential mediating effects of cognitive biases and general psychopathology. PLEs were also directly connected to suicide-related outcomes across all studies included within this topic. The findings imply that PLEs are transdiagnostic phenomena that do not represent the most central domain of psychopathology in community samples. Their occurrence might be associated with CT and suicide risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e54"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143449663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural risk factors that predict the future onset of binge eating or compensatory weight control behaviors: A prospective 4-year fMRI study.","authors":"Eric Stice, Sonja Yokum, Jeff Gau, Heather Shaw","doi":"10.1017/S0033291724003337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724003337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We conducted a prospective study to advance knowledge of biological factors that predict the future onset of binge eating and compensatory weight control behaviors because few biological risk factors for eating pathology have been identified.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Adolescent girls free of binge eating or compensatory behaviors (<i>N</i> = 88; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 14.5; [SD = 0.9]) completed functional magnetic resonance imaging tasks assessing individual differences in neural responsivity hypothesized to increase risk for onset of binge eating and compensatory behaviors, along with additional self-report measures, and were assessed over a 4-year follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Elevated responsivity of regions implicated in attention and valuation (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; ventromedial prefrontal cortex) to thin models and lower responsivity of a reward valuation region (caudate) to anticipated milkshake tastes (which correlated with feeling fat) predicted the future onset of binge eating or compensatory behaviors over 4-year follow-up. Parental history of binge eating and compensatory behaviors, emotionality, weight/shape overvaluation, feeling fat, and elevated BMI also predicted the future onset of binge eating or compensatory behaviors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The evidence that elevated attentional bias for, and valuation of the thin ideal, in combination with lower valuation of high-calorie foods, predicted the future onset of eating-disordered behaviors are novel findings. The evidence that weight/shape overvaluation, feeling fat, elevated body mass, emotionality, and parental history of eating pathology predicted the future onset of eating-disordered behaviors extend past findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":20891,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Medicine","volume":"55 ","pages":"e48"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}