“…The DMN is also involved in affective empathy (Göttlich, Ye, Rodriguez-Fornells, Münte, & Krämer, 2017), which indicates the simulation of others' emotional experiences that resulted in empathic distress (Ashar, Andrews-Hanna, Dimidjian, & Wager, 2017). The execution of DMN during rest allows to construct discrete emotions of negative valence by conceptualizing affective sensations in the context of preceded experience (Pan et al, 2022;Satpute & Lindquist, 2019), and the deprivation of temporal coherence in DMN may impair the processing of generalizing across heterogeneous emotion features (Lindquist, Wager, Kober, Bliss-Moreau, & Barrett, 2012;Suo et al, 2022), all of which may further lead to distress symptoms. Specially, our findings of provincial within-DMN connectivity in the connectome demonstrated that the disruption of intrinsic synchronous coordination of DMN may be the predictors of subsequent pandemic-related distress, which is aligned with previous research studies that indicated its critical role as predictive biomarkers in individuals with major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (Korgaonkar, Goldstein-Piekarski, Fornito, & Williams, 2020;Patriat, Birn, Keding, & Herringa, 2016).…”