Common and specific dimensions of internalizing disorders are characterized by unique patterns of brain activity on a task of emotional cognitive control.

ABSTRACT: Alterations in neural systems underlying cognitive control are well-documented across individuals with various internalizing disorders. The current study examined how individual differences in underlying traits related to internalizing disorders influence brain activation, as assessed by fMRI, when cognitive control must be exerted to make a decision about the emotional valence (positive, negative) of a task-relevant word displayed concurrently with a task-irrelevant emotional face. Taking a bi-factor model approach, fifty-five middle-aged female participants were characterized on symptom level on a common internalizing latent factor representing shared symptoms across anxiety and depression, as well as on specific factors remaining after taking the common internalizing factor into account

SUBMITTER: Banich MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058970 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature