Maja S Strauss , Adi T Zamir , Amir Benhos , Gal Richter-Levin
{"title":"Active stress resilience","authors":"Maja S Strauss , Adi T Zamir , Amir Benhos , Gal Richter-Levin","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101403","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Individual variability in response to stress highlights the importance of behavioral profiling to unveil changes specific to resilience. Emphasizing distinct mechanisms, this review reveals resilience as an active coping response that differs from the unexposed healthy population. Individual differences add complexity to stress-related outcomes and are essential for tailoring effective interventions. The data highlight resilience promotion through maintaining blood–brain barrier integrity and modulating inflammatory responses. Epigenetic findings implicate multiple processes, such as immune function, cell proliferation, and synaptic transmission. Disruptions in neuronal excitation and inhibition equilibrium significantly impact the resilience-vulnerability balance. Understanding the neural circuit interplay and sex-specific responses offers a comprehensive perspective on the multifaceted nature of resilience and provides potential avenues for preventive and therapeutic strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141083583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-awareness in schizophrenia: identifying common neural oscillatory parameters underlying altered sense of self-agency and reduced prefrontal cortex excitability","authors":"Oded Meiron","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101398","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The review examined disease-specific Electroencephalography frequency–power abnormalities and their relationship with compromised insight in patients with schizophrenia (SZ). Furthermore, we aimed to shed light on neural oscillatory activity parameters that predict altered self-awareness states in SZ. Reduced connectivity within anterior default mode network (DMN) seems to underlie excessive resting frontal alpha power and is consistently linked to compromised prefrontal cortex region activity and to disruptions in regulating the storage of sensory information in SZ spectrum disorders. Increased power within slow and fast wave oscillations in SZ is likely to result in distorted perceptions of self-agency. Alterations in frontal midline theta and frontal gamma power are related to poor insight of mental illness. Overall, the review concludes that increasing prefrontal cortex excitability using focalized noninvasive brain stimulation treatments can improve insight and self-agency perception and may suppress pathological gamma synchrony in SZ.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141084170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From childhood experience to stress resilience: mechanisms and interventions","authors":"Linlin Yan , Jianhui Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Stress resilience refers to the positive adaptation under stress. Both negative and positive childhood experiences are associated with resilience. This narrow review summarizes evidence to illustrate the association between childhood experience and resilience. Then, we propose an integrated framework for outlining the connecting mechanisms between childhood experience and resilience, including the stress response system supported by hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, stress coping skills, and stress coping resources. Within this framework, we also address potential interventions based on improving childhood experiences, modulating the stress response system, enhancing coping skills, and enriching coping resources. Finally, we provide insights into resilience measurement and training, as well as research gaps.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141077864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differential profiles of cognitive and behavioral inflexibility in addictive disorders","authors":"Tsen Vei Lim , Karen D Ersche","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Patients with addictive disorders (encompassing substance and behavioral addictions) often behave in ways that have been described as rigid and inflexible. This behavioral profile has been proposed to be explained by impairments in cognitive and behavioral flexibility that are shared by all addictive disorders. To evaluate this assertion, we reviewed the literature to determine similarities and differences in the performance of patients with either substance-related or behavioral addictions on well-established paradigms of cognitive and behavioral flexibility. Contrary to the widely-held view, we found that different addictive disorders have contrasting profiles of cognitive and behavioral inflexibility, suggesting that inflexible behavior — though conceptually similar in all addictive disorders — appears to be underpinned by different neuropsychological processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154624000536/pdfft?md5=80ddfec1d7b9bfb7514c0723244e4783&pid=1-s2.0-S2352154624000536-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141068918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The middle managers: thalamic and cholinergic contributions to coordinating top-down and bottom-up processing","authors":"Cindy Lustig, Nicolaas I Bohnen","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Methodological advances have facilitated extensive revision of traditional views of thalamic and cholinergic contributions to cognition and behavior. Increasing attention to the integrative capabilities of the thalamus highlights its role beyond a simple sensory relay, recognizing its complex connectivity and role in orchestrating different phases of attention. Correspondingly, modern conceptualizations position the cholinergic system as key in integrating sensory information with attention and goals. These theoretical developments have occurred largely in parallel but have a large conceptual overlap. We review this overlap, including evidence from animal, patient, neuroimaging, and computational studies, and suggest that thalamo-cholinergic cognition plays a key role in coordinating stable and flexible attention.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140950656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcranial magnetic stimulation","authors":"Yuichiro Shirota , Yoshikazu Ugawa","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101396","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We have briefly reviewed the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) method, which has been widely used as one of the noninvasive brain stimulation techniques in humans in the field of basic neuroscience or clinical neurology. Four topics are summarized. Basic mechanism of action: Which part of the brain is activated and how it is stimulated are discussed mainly based on the results of motor cortical stimulation in single-pulse TMS. Single-pulse and paired-pulse TMS: Motor cortical (M1) output function is studied with a single-pulse TMS. The M1 excitability changes produced by inputs from within M1 or from other parts of the brain are studied by a paired-pulse TMS. Repetitive TMS (rTMS): The long-term effects induced by rTMS, which continue after the intervention and sometimes are used as treatment, are summarized. Variability, safety, and others: These issues are summarized based on previous works.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140948296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness","authors":"Amedeo D’Angiulli , Raymond Roy","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we introduce a new perspective where imagination is identified as the generativity of mental imagery and imaginings, or <em>imaginative generativity</em> (IG), characterized by a diverse array of multisensory formats, symbolic types, and mental activities (mental synthesis). Reviewing evidence spanning the evolution of cognition in hominids and some nonhuman species, we highlight the significance of IG in Paleolithic symbolism and findings from experimental studies in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience on perception and mental imagery. Our analysis also includes a synthesis of extensive bibliometric literature. We conclude that imaginative consciousness and its phenomenology rely on vivid representing, a cognitive optimization strategy to navigate the challenges of instability, ambiguity, and limitations in perception, memory and consciousness, crucial for survival and adaptation. Our review suggests that imagination, akin to phenotypic traits, plays a critical role in natural selection, highlighting the importance of including cognitive process variations within the framework of natural selection. Our perspective not only deepens the understanding of evolutionary development but also emphasizes the importance of mental simulation and foresight as key components of evolutionary fitness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154624000482/pdfft?md5=e1c654c94939c0c960e4f4f1a0cfeca6&pid=1-s2.0-S2352154624000482-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140914107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashley C Parr , Valerie J Sydnor , Finnegan J Calabro , Beatriz Luna
{"title":"Adolescent-to-adult gains in cognitive flexibility are adaptively supported by reward sensitivity, exploration, and neural variability","authors":"Ashley C Parr , Valerie J Sydnor , Finnegan J Calabro , Beatriz Luna","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cognitive flexibility exhibits dynamic changes throughout development, with different forms of flexibility showing dissociable developmental trajectories. In this review, we propose that an adolescent-specific mode of flexibility in the face of changing environmental contingencies supports the emergence of adolescent-to-adult gains in cognitive shifting efficiency. We first describe how cognitive shifting abilities monotonically improve from childhood to adulthood, accompanied by increases in brain state flexibility, neural variability, and excitatory/inhibitory balance. We next summarize evidence supporting the existence of a dopamine-driven adolescent peak in flexible behavior that results in reward seeking, undirected exploration, and environmental sampling. We propose a neurodevelopmental framework that relates these adolescent behaviors to the refinement of neural phenotypes relevant to mature cognitive flexibility - and thus highlight the importance of the adolescent period in fostering healthy neurocognitive trajectories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140901572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olivia Gosseries , Nolwenn Marie , Yannick Lafon , Aminata Bicego , Charlotte Grégoire , Victor Oswald , Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse
{"title":"Exploration of trance states: phenomenology, brain correlates, and clinical applications","authors":"Olivia Gosseries , Nolwenn Marie , Yannick Lafon , Aminata Bicego , Charlotte Grégoire , Victor Oswald , Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review provides an exploration of trance states, covering their phenomenology, neural mechanisms, and clinical uses. Trance states, present in diverse cultural contexts from shamanic practices to modern adaptations, have recently captured the interest of researchers and clinicians. Here, we delve into the phenomenological aspects of trance experiences, highlighting the most common features. Employing cutting-edge neuroscientific methods, we also report findings on the neural underpinnings of trance states. Furthermore, we look into the practical applications of such states in clinical settings. By bridging subjective experiences, neuroscience, and clinical relevance, this review enhances our understanding of trance states and their possible uses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154624000512/pdfft?md5=ec6e60c7daa1f4577e093fe0273ca7d5&pid=1-s2.0-S2352154624000512-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140901571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sina A Schwarze , Yana Fandakova , Ulman Lindenberger
{"title":"Cognitive flexibility across the lifespan: developmental differences in the neural basis of sustained and transient control processes during task switching","authors":"Sina A Schwarze , Yana Fandakova , Ulman Lindenberger","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101395","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ability to flexibly switch between task sets increases early and decreases late in life. This lifespan pattern differs between mixing costs, denoting performance decrements during task switching compared with single tasking, and switch costs, denoting performance decrements on trials after the task has switched relative to trials where the task repeats. Generally, mixing costs reach their lifespan minimum later and increase again earlier than switch costs. We propose that lifespan changes in cognitive flexibility are associated with neural processes implementing sustained and transient control processes that underlie mixing and switch costs, respectively. To better understand the lifespan development of sustained and transient control processes, future research needs to delineate longitudinal changes in functional connectivity patterns and task-set representations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154624000469/pdfft?md5=e507c71aca39dd7bf9f1730f40c05563&pid=1-s2.0-S2352154624000469-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140815524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}