Affective and neural reactivity to criticism in individuals high and low on perceived criticism.

ABSTRACT: People who have remitted from depression are at increased risk for relapse if they rate their relatives as being critical of them on a simple self-report measure of Perceived Criticism (PC). To explore neural mechanisms associated with this we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine how people with different levels of PC responded to hearing criticism from their own mothers. To maximize variability in affective reactivity, depressed, recovered depressed, and healthy control participants (n = 33) were classified as high or low in PC based on a median split. They were then exposed to personally-relevant critical and praising comments from their mothers. Perceived Criticism levels were unrelated to depression status and to negative mood change after hearing criticism. How

SUBMITTER: Hooley JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3439418 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature