Chronic StressPub Date : 2023-12-03eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470231214950
Angel Deroncele-Acosta, Pedro R Gil-Monte, Roger P Norabuena-Figueroa, Pedro Gil-LaOrden
{"title":"Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Burnout Inventory in University Teachers in Hybrid Education.","authors":"Angel Deroncele-Acosta, Pedro R Gil-Monte, Roger P Norabuena-Figueroa, Pedro Gil-LaOrden","doi":"10.1177/24705470231214950","DOIUrl":"10.1177/24705470231214950","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The scientific literature argues the urgent need for adequate tools to assess burnout in human service professionals, however, little progress has been made on this in university teachers in hybrid environments, even though after the pandemic, these work scenarios are predominant.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine the psychometric properties of invariance between male and female teachers of hybrid education in the Spanish Burnout Inventory (SBI).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The anonymous, self-administered SBI was administered to 1060 university teachers in Lima, Peru, from online random sampling. Of the total number of participants, 626 were women (59.1%) and 434 were men (40.9%), with an age range of 22 to 76 years, with a mean of 46.97 and a standard deviation of 10.256. It should be noted that 74.5% of the teachers worked full time. The analysis used the statistical programs AMOS v24, SPSS v26 and R-Project v4.1.2. First, a descriptive analysis of the data was performed, as well as a multivariate normality test of the data. Secondly, confirmatory factor analysis was performed; finally, a factorial invariance test was performed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Cronbach's alpha of the SBI was 0.827, and for each subscale: Enthusiasm toward the job (0.742), Psychological exhaustion (0.889), Indolence (0.819), Guilt (0.816). According to the fit indicators, the confirmatory factor model is adequate. The results supported configural invariance, metric invariance, scalar invariance, and strict invariance in the male and female groups, although further investigation of some items specific to the indolence factor is needed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The SBI is a valid instrument to assess burnout in university teachers in hybrid environments. Studies associated with the SBI focus on its psychometric properties, burnout prevalence, related variables, and literature reviews. The validation of the SBI in various countries and service areas is discussed, as well as future implications for intervention in burnout prevention and mastery.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":"7 ","pages":"24705470231214950"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10695086/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138489092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chronic StressPub Date : 2023-11-21eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470231215001
Ruth H Asch, Krista Fowles, Robert H Pietrzak, Jane R Taylor, Irina Esterlis
{"title":"Examining mGlu5 Receptor Availability as a Predictor of Vulnerability to PTSD: An [<sup>18</sup>F]FPEB and PET Study in Male and Female Rats.","authors":"Ruth H Asch, Krista Fowles, Robert H Pietrzak, Jane R Taylor, Irina Esterlis","doi":"10.1177/24705470231215001","DOIUrl":"10.1177/24705470231215001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Females are twice as likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than males, yet specific factors contributing to this greater risk are not fully understood. Our clinical and recent preclinical findings suggest a role for the metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGlu5) in PTSD and differential involvement between males and females.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Here, we further investigate whether mGlu5 receptor availability may contribute to individual and sex differences in PTSD susceptibility by quantifying receptor availability using the mGlu5 receptor-specific radiotracer, [<sup>18</sup>F]FPEB, and positron emission tomography in male (n = 16) and female (n = 16) rats before and after traumatic footshock exposure (FE) and assessment of stress-enhanced fear learning (SEFL) susceptibility, as compared with no-shock controls (CON; n = 7 male; n = 8 female).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, FE rats displayed greater fear generalization as compared with CON (<i>p </i>< .001). Further, greater mGlu5 receptor availability at baseline (<i>p </i>= .003) and post-test (<i>p </i>= .005) was significantly associated with expression of the SEFL phenotype. Notably, FE female rats displayed a shift to more passive coping (ie, freezing), and displayed greater SEFL susceptibility (<i>p </i>= .01), and had lower baseline mGlu5 availability (<i>p </i>= .03) relative to their FE male rat counterparts.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Results are consistent with clinical findings of higher mGlu5 receptor availability in PTSD, and add to growing evidence implicating these receptors in the pathophysiology of PTSD and sex-differences in susceptibility for this disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":"7 ","pages":"24705470231215001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10666551/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138464303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chronic StressPub Date : 2023-09-28eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470231203655
Rahul Goel, Teresa Tse, Lia J Smith, Andrew Floren, Bruce Naylor, M Wright Williams, Ramiro Salas, Albert S Rizzo, David Ress
{"title":"Framework for Accurate Classification of Self-Reported Stress From Multisession Functional MRI Data of Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress.","authors":"Rahul Goel, Teresa Tse, Lia J Smith, Andrew Floren, Bruce Naylor, M Wright Williams, Ramiro Salas, Albert S Rizzo, David Ress","doi":"10.1177/24705470231203655","DOIUrl":"10.1177/24705470231203655","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background:</b> Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant burden among combat Veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While empirically supported treatments have demonstrated reductions in PTSD symptomatology, there remains a need to improve treatment effectiveness. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neurofeedback has emerged as a possible treatment to ameliorate PTSD symptom severity. Virtual reality (VR) approaches have also shown promise in increasing treatment compliance and outcomes. To facilitate fMRI neurofeedback-associated therapies, it would be advantageous to accurately classify internal brain stress levels while Veterans are exposed to trauma-associated VR imagery. <b>Methods:</b> Across 2 sessions, we used fMRI to collect neural responses to trauma-associated VR-like stimuli among male combat Veterans with PTSD symptoms (N = 8). Veterans reported their self-perceived stress level on a scale from 1 to 8 every 15 s throughout the fMRI sessions. In our proposed framework, we precisely sample the fMRI data on cortical gray matter, blurring the data along the gray-matter manifold to reduce noise and dimensionality while preserving maximum neural information. Then, we independently applied 3 machine learning (ML) algorithms to this fMRI data collected across 2 sessions, separately for each Veteran, to build individualized ML models that predicted their internal brain states (self-reported stress responses). <b>Results:</b> We accurately classified the 8-class self-reported stress responses with a mean (± standard error) root mean square error of 0.6 (± 0.1) across all Veterans using the best ML approach. <b>Conclusions:</b> The findings demonstrate the predictive ability of ML algorithms applied to whole-brain cortical fMRI data collected during individual Veteran sessions. The framework we have developed to preprocess whole-brain cortical fMRI data and train ML models across sessions would provide a valuable tool to enable individualized real-time fMRI neurofeedback during VR-like exposure therapy for PTSD.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":"7 ","pages":"24705470231203655"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10540591/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41172067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting to the Root of the Problem: Supporting Clients With Lived-Experiences of Systemic Discrimination.","authors":"Amy Bartlett, Sonya Faber, Monnica Williams, Kellen Saxberg","doi":"10.1177/24705470221139205","DOIUrl":"10.1177/24705470221139205","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For many marginalized people, coping with discrimination is not a temporary condition. Rather it is endemic to living in a discriminatory society and a source of ongoing stress. In this paper, we explore the need to provide people struggling to cope with the skills to tackle not just the personal consequences of discrimination, but also to understand and address the root causes of their pain, and specifically the ones that lie outside of themselves. We propose using the concept of social capital to bring greater awareness among clients, clinicians, and society in general about the need to pair the treatment of personal distress with concurrent practices to understand and tackle larger systemic issues impacting their mental health. People with marginalized identities are often expected to find ways to cope with oppression and then sent back into a broken world, perhaps with stronger coping skills, but often ones which do not address the root cause or source of the pain, which is social injustice. We propose that it is therapeutically important to problematize, pathologize and address the systems and narratives that discriminate and cause people to need to cope, instead of focusing therapeutic interventions only on the internal resources of the person doing the coping.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":" ","pages":"24705470221139205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685113/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40709374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chronic StressPub Date : 2022-10-19eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470221128017
Alexandra A Alario, Mark J Niciu
{"title":"(Es)Ketamine for Suicidal Ideation and Behavior: Clinical Efficacy.","authors":"Alexandra A Alario, Mark J Niciu","doi":"10.1177/24705470221128017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/24705470221128017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Suicidal ideation and behavior are among the most severe psychiatric presentations, warranting emergency room visits and psychiatric admission for higher levels of care. In the United States, suicide rates continue to climb, especially in younger patients, and the continued psychosocial stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic may further exacerbate this crisis. Suicidal ideation and behavior are core features of a major depressive episode, but there are limited treatment options to rapidly redress these life-threatening symptoms. Racemic ketamine and its S-enantiomer, esketamine, are N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists and glutamate modulators that have robust antidepressant efficacy in treatment-resistant major depressive disorder and bipolar depression. Additionally, both ketamine and esketamine have demonstrated rapid-acting antisuicidal efficacy in major mood disorders. In August 2020, this culminated in a first-in-class approval of Spravato® (intranasal esketamine) for the treatment of major depressive disorder with acute suicidal ideation and behavior. In this article, we review the literature in support of the antisuicidal efficacy of ketamine and esketamine.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":" ","pages":"24705470221128017"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/0a/7d/10.1177_24705470221128017.PMC9585565.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40567814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chronic StressPub Date : 2022-10-09eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470221128004
Kelley M Swanberg, Leonardo Campos, Chadi G Abdallah, Christoph Juchem
{"title":"Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Kelley M Swanberg, Leonardo Campos, Chadi G Abdallah, Christoph Juchem","doi":"10.1177/24705470221128004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/24705470221128004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A stressor-related disorder wherein traumatic experience precipitates protracted disruptions to mood and cognition, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with wide-ranging abnormalities across the body. While various methods have investigated these deviations, only proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (<sup>1</sup>H MRS) enables noninvasive measurement of small-molecule metabolites in the living human. <sup>1</sup>H MRS has correspondingly been employed to test hypotheses about the composition and function of multiple brain regions putatively involved in PTSD. Here we systematically review methodological considerations and reported findings, both positive and negative, of the current <sup>1</sup>H-MRS literature in PTSD (N = 32 studies) to communicate the brain regional metabolite alterations heretofore observed, providing random-effects model meta-analyses for those most extensively studied. Our review suggests significant PTSD-associated decreases in N-acetyl aspartate in bilateral hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex with less evident effect in other metabolites and regions. Model heterogeneities diverged widely by analysis (I<sup>2</sup> < 0.01% to 90.1%) and suggested regional dependence on quantification reference (creatine or otherwise). While observed variabilities in methods and reported findings suggest that <sup>1</sup>H-MRS explorations of PTSD could benefit from methodological standardization, informing this standardization by quantitative assessment of the existing literature is currently hampered by its small size and limited scope.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":" ","pages":"24705470221128004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/eb/50/10.1177_24705470221128004.PMC9551353.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33537693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chronic StressPub Date : 2022-09-28eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470221129288
Jiwon Kim, Kritika Pokharel, Michael Sandali, Chung Sub Kim
{"title":"Establishment of the Mouse Model of Social Avoidance Induced by Female-Directed Female Aggression.","authors":"Jiwon Kim, Kritika Pokharel, Michael Sandali, Chung Sub Kim","doi":"10.1177/24705470221129288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/24705470221129288","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Most preclinical research on the effects of stress has been done on male subjects, even though women are more prone than men to experience stress-related problems. Chronic social defeat stress (CSDS) is a rodent model of psychosocial stress. However, this model has been challenged in female mouse studies since neither male nor female resident mice attack intruder females. A female-to-female CSDS model is needed to investigate the physiological and behavioral aspects.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The intruders were either male or female C57BL/6J mice, whereas the residents were male or ovariectomized (OVX) female CD-1 mice. The CD-1 aggressor mice had direct physical contact with the C57BL/6J mice for 10 min before initiating sensory contact with them for 24 h. Jump escape and freezing were evaluated during the social defeat of days 1 and 12. Experimental C57BL/6J mice underwent a social interaction test after suffering social defeat for 12 days.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that the number of attack bites and attack latency had a significant negative correlation during the selection of aggressors. In the single-housed OVX mice, 34% of mice met the criterion of the selection of aggressors. However, single-housed OVX mice did not show sustained aggressive behavior (eg, attack bites) through the 12-day CSDS. As a result, we did not find susceptible mice during the social interaction test. In contrast, during the selection of aggressors, 42% of OVX mice housed with partners satisfied the criterion and displayed consistently aggressive behavior. CSDS produced susceptible (50%) and resilient (50%) phenotypes during the social interaction test. Notably, male and OVX female CD-1 mice housed with partners had similar amounts of attack bites and attack rates over the 12-day CSDS. Finally, we found that chronically socially defeated male and female mice displayed different coping behaviors (eg, active <i>vs</i> passive) with social defeat.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study demonstrates that OVX CD-1 mice housed with mates exhibited territorial aggression toward female intruders, producing susceptibility and resilience to social avoidance. Additionally, socially defeated male and female mice displayed different behavioral susceptibility to social defeat.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":" ","pages":"24705470221129288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c1/81/10.1177_24705470221129288.PMC9523834.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40392791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chronic StressPub Date : 2022-09-28eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470221099206
Corinna Anand, Karin Hengst, Reinhold Gellner, Heike Englert
{"title":"Eight Weeks of Lifestyle Change: What are the Effects of the Healthy Lifestyle Community Programme (Cohort 1) on Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) and Perceived Stress?","authors":"Corinna Anand, Karin Hengst, Reinhold Gellner, Heike Englert","doi":"10.1177/24705470221099206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/24705470221099206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background:</b> Stress and cortisol dysregulation are linked to NCDs. Moreover, stress favours unhealthy lifestyle patterns, which increase the risk for NCDs. The role of the Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) and the effect of lifestyle interventions on the same remain unclear. <b>Methods:</b> The impact of the intensive 8-week phase of the Healthy Lifestyle Community Programme (HLCP, cohort 1) on parameters of the CAR, ie cortisol values 0 (sample [S]1), 30), 45 and 60 minutes post-awakening, average peak, S1-peak delta and area under the increase curve (AUC<sub>I</sub>), and perceived stress levels (PSL) was evaluated in a non-randomized, controlled trial. Covariates of the CAR (eg sleep measures) and irregularities in sampling were assessed. The intervention focussed on stress management, a healthy diet, regular exercise, and social support. Participants were recruited from the general population. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted. <b>Results:</b> 97 participants (age: 56 ± 10 years; 71% female), with 68 in the intervention group (IG; age: 55 ± 8, 77% female) and 29 participants in the control group (CG; age: 59 ± 12, 59% female), were included in the analysis. The baseline characteristics of both groups were comparable, except participants of IG were younger. On average, the PSL at baseline was low in both groups (IG: 9.7 ± 5.4 points; CG: 8.5 ± 6.9 points; p = .165), but 22% (n = 15) in the IG and 20% (n = 6) in the CG reported a high PSL. Most participants reported irregularities in CAR sampling, eg interruption of sleep (IG: 80% CG: 81%). After 8 weeks, most CAR parameters and the PSL decreased in the IG and CG, resulting in no differences of change between the groups. In the IG only, a decrease of PSL was linked to an increase of CAR parameters, eg AUC<sub>I</sub> (correlation coefficient = -0.307; p = .017). <b>Conclusion:</b> The HLCP may potentially reduce PSL and change the CAR, but results cannot be clearly attributed to the programme. Methodological challenges and multiple confounders, limit suitability of the CAR in the context of lifestyle interventions. Other measures (eg hair-cortisol) may give further insights. <b>Trial registration</b>: German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS); DRKS00018821; www.drks.de.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":" ","pages":"24705470221099206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9523833/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40392793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chronic StressPub Date : 2022-08-17eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470221118308
Amelia E Talley, Breanna N Harris, Tran H Le, Zachary P Hohman
{"title":"Aversive Self-Focus and Alcohol Consumption Behavior in Women with Sexual Identity-Uncertainty: Changes in Salivary Cortisol Stress Response Among Those who Drink-to-Cope.","authors":"Amelia E Talley, Breanna N Harris, Tran H Le, Zachary P Hohman","doi":"10.1177/24705470221118308","DOIUrl":"10.1177/24705470221118308","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Individuals who report sexual identity-uncertainty are at-risk for heavy alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder symptomology. The current study examined the impact of states of aversive self-focus on subsequent consumption of ostensibly alcohol-containing beverages among a sample of women in early adulthood with varying levels of sexual identity-uncertainty (<i>N</i> = 75).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Utilizing a 2 (<i>self-focus</i>: negative vs. neutral) × 2 (<i>attribution for any psychological discomfort</i>: external vs. none given) between-subjects design with 3 within-person assessments of salivary cortisol, both a moderation model and mixed-effects general linear model were tested.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>States of aversive self-focus caused increases in overall consumption among women higher in sexual identity-uncertainty. Findings suggested consumption of ostensibly alcohol-containing beverages was more likely among women higher in sexual identity-uncertainty who also reported consuming beverages to cope with distress. Among women who reported higher levels of sexual identity-uncertainty and drinking-to-cope motives, salivary cortisol concentrations dampened more quickly over time, as they supposedly consumed alcohol.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings demonstrate that, among women reporting sexual identity-uncertainty who are motivated to consume alcohol to forget about troubles or worries, situations which evoke states of aversive self-focus may contribute to differences in alcohol consumption in early adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":" ","pages":"24705470221118308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9393684/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40439531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chronic StressPub Date : 2022-08-04eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/24705470221105804
Irina Esterlis, Sarah DeBonee, Ryan Cool, Sophie Holmes, Stephen R Baldassari, Paul Maruff, Robert H Pietrzak, Margaret T Davis
{"title":"Differential Role of mGluR5 in Cognitive Processes in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depression.","authors":"Irina Esterlis, Sarah DeBonee, Ryan Cool, Sophie Holmes, Stephen R Baldassari, Paul Maruff, Robert H Pietrzak, Margaret T Davis","doi":"10.1177/24705470221105804","DOIUrl":"10.1177/24705470221105804","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A robust literature supports the role of the metabotropic glutamate receptor type 5 (mGluR5) in cognitive functioning. mGluR5 is also implicated in the pathophysiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), which are characterized by cognitive alterations. However, the relationship between mGluR5 and cognition in MDD and PTSD has not yet been directly investigated. To address this gap, we examined the relationship between <i>in vivo</i> mGluR5 availability and cognition in PTSD, MDD, and matched healthy adults (HA).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Individuals with PTSD (<i>N</i> = 28) and MDD (<i>N</i> = 21), and HA (<i>N</i> = 28) were matched for age, gender, and smoking status. Participants completed <sup>18</sup>F-FPEB positron emission tomography (PET) scan, psychiatric and cognitive assessments.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across models examining the relationship between mGluR5 availability and different domains of cognition across diagnostic groups, only the interaction of diagnosis*attention was significant (<i>F</i> <sub>4,64</sub> = 3.011, <i>P</i> = .024). Higher mGluR5 availability was associated with poorer attention in PTSD in 4 frontolimbic regions of interests (ROI's: OFC (<i>r</i> = -.441, <i>P</i> = .016), vmPFC (<i>r</i> = -.408, <i>P</i> = .028), dlPFC (<i>r</i> = -.421, <i>P</i> = .023), hippocampus (<i>r</i> = -.422, <i>P</i> = .025). By contrast, mGluR5 availability in the MDD group was positively related to Attention (ATTN) in the OFC (<i>r</i> = .590, <i>P</i> = .006), vmPFC (<i>r</i> = .653, <i>P</i> = .002), and dlPFC (<i>r</i> = .620, <i>P</i> = .004). Findings in the hippocampus for MDD followed the same pattern but did not survive correction for multiple comparisons (<i>r</i> = .480, <i>P</i> = .036). ATTN and mGluR5 availability were not significantly related in the HA group. Of note, in MANOVA analyses group*ATTN interaction results in the OFC did not survive multiple comparisons (<i>P</i> = .046). All other findings survived correction for multiple comparisons and remained significant when covarying for potential confounds (eg, depressed mood).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We observed a significant relationship between frontolimbic mGluR5 availability and performance on tests of attention in individuals with MDD and PTSD. This finding aligns with animal work showing dysregulation in mGluR5 in cognitive functioning, and differed as a function of diagnosis. Results suggest interventions targeting mGluR5 may help bolster cognitive difficulties, highlighting the importance of employing different mGluR5 directed treatment strategies in MDD and PTSD.</p>","PeriodicalId":52315,"journal":{"name":"Chronic Stress","volume":" ","pages":"24705470221105804"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/61/80/10.1177_24705470221105804.PMC9358555.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40690117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}