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The Effect of Criticism on Functional Brain Connectivity and Associations with Neuroticism

Neuroticism is a robust personality trait that constitutes a risk factor for psychopathology, especially anxiety disorders and depression. High neurotic individuals tend to be more self-critical and are overly sensitive to criticism by others. Hence, we used a novel resting-state paradigm to investi...

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Autores principales: Servaas, Michelle Nadine, Riese, Harriëtte, Renken, Remco Jan, Marsman, Jan-Bernard Cornelis, Lambregs, Johan, Ormel, Johan, Aleman, André
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069606
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author Servaas, Michelle Nadine
Riese, Harriëtte
Renken, Remco Jan
Marsman, Jan-Bernard Cornelis
Lambregs, Johan
Ormel, Johan
Aleman, André
author_facet Servaas, Michelle Nadine
Riese, Harriëtte
Renken, Remco Jan
Marsman, Jan-Bernard Cornelis
Lambregs, Johan
Ormel, Johan
Aleman, André
author_sort Servaas, Michelle Nadine
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description Neuroticism is a robust personality trait that constitutes a risk factor for psychopathology, especially anxiety disorders and depression. High neurotic individuals tend to be more self-critical and are overly sensitive to criticism by others. Hence, we used a novel resting-state paradigm to investigate the effect of criticism on functional brain connectivity and associations with neuroticism. Forty-eight participants completed the NEO Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PI-R) to assess neuroticism. Next, we recorded resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) during two sessions. We manipulated the second session before scanning by presenting three standardized critical remarks through headphones, in which the subject was urged to please lie still in the scanner. A seed-based functional connectivity method and subsequent clustering were used to analyse the resting state data. Based on the reviewed literature related to criticism, we selected brain regions associated with self-reflective processing and stress-regulation as regions of interest. The findings showed enhanced functional connectivity between the clustered seed regions and brain areas involved in emotion processing and social cognition during the processing of criticism. Concurrently, functional connectivity was reduced between these clusters and brain structures related to the default mode network and higher-order cognitive control. Furthermore, individuals scoring higher on neuroticism showed altered functional connectivity between the clustered seed regions and brain areas involved in the appraisal, expression and regulation of negative emotions. These results may suggest that the criticized person is attempting to understand the beliefs, perceptions and feelings of the critic in order to facilitate flexible and adaptive social behavior. Furthermore, multiple aspects of emotion processing were found to be affected in individuals scoring higher on neuroticism during the processing of criticism, which may increase their sensitivity to negative social-evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-37249232013-08-06 The Effect of Criticism on Functional Brain Connectivity and Associations with Neuroticism Servaas, Michelle Nadine Riese, Harriëtte Renken, Remco Jan Marsman, Jan-Bernard Cornelis Lambregs, Johan Ormel, Johan Aleman, André PLoS One Research Article Neuroticism is a robust personality trait that constitutes a risk factor for psychopathology, especially anxiety disorders and depression. High neurotic individuals tend to be more self-critical and are overly sensitive to criticism by others. Hence, we used a novel resting-state paradigm to investigate the effect of criticism on functional brain connectivity and associations with neuroticism. Forty-eight participants completed the NEO Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PI-R) to assess neuroticism. Next, we recorded resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) during two sessions. We manipulated the second session before scanning by presenting three standardized critical remarks through headphones, in which the subject was urged to please lie still in the scanner. A seed-based functional connectivity method and subsequent clustering were used to analyse the resting state data. Based on the reviewed literature related to criticism, we selected brain regions associated with self-reflective processing and stress-regulation as regions of interest. The findings showed enhanced functional connectivity between the clustered seed regions and brain areas involved in emotion processing and social cognition during the processing of criticism. Concurrently, functional connectivity was reduced between these clusters and brain structures related to the default mode network and higher-order cognitive control. Furthermore, individuals scoring higher on neuroticism showed altered functional connectivity between the clustered seed regions and brain areas involved in the appraisal, expression and regulation of negative emotions. These results may suggest that the criticized person is attempting to understand the beliefs, perceptions and feelings of the critic in order to facilitate flexible and adaptive social behavior. Furthermore, multiple aspects of emotion processing were found to be affected in individuals scoring higher on neuroticism during the processing of criticism, which may increase their sensitivity to negative social-evaluation. Public Library of Science 2013-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3724923/ /pubmed/23922755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069606 Text en © 2013 Servaas et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Aleman, André
The Effect of Criticism on Functional Brain Connectivity and Associations with Neuroticism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724923/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069606
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