Positive valence systems in youth anxiety development: A scoping review

Sequeira, Stefanie; Forbes, Erika E.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Silk, Jennifer S.

doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102588

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“…In all mammals, cortex and subcortex send positive and negative valence signals that the amygdala integrates to elicit adaptive behaviours via downstream targets (Correia & Goosens, 2016;McDonald, 1998;Smith & Torregrossa, 2021;Stefanacci & Amaral, 2002). Disruption in valence encoding is linked to the development of mood disorders in non-human models (Perusini & Fanselow, 2015) and humans (Brock, Harp, & Neta, 2022;Sequeira, Forbes, Hanson, & Silk, 2022).…”

Section: Conservation Of Brain Systemsmentioning

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Non-human contributions to personality neuroscience – from fish through primates. An introduction to the special issue

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2022

Personality Neuroscience

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The most fundamental emotional systems that show trait control are evolutionarily old and extensively conserved. Psychology in general has benefited from non-human neuroscience and from the analytical simplicity of behaviour in those with simpler nervous systems. It has been argued that integration between personality, psychopathology, and neuroscience is particularly promising if we are to understand the neurobiology of human experience. Here, we provide some general arguments for a non-human approach being at least as productive in relation to personality, psychopathology, and their interface. Some early personality theories were directly linked to psychopathology (e.g., Eysenck, Panksepp, and Cloninger). They shared a common interest in brain systems that naturally led to the use of non-human data; behavioural, neural, and pharmacological. In Eysenck’s case, this also led to the selective breeding, at the Maudsley Institute, of emotionally reactive and non-reactive strains of rat as models of trait neuroticism or trait emotionality. Dimensional personality research and categorical approaches to clinical disorder then drifted apart from each other, from neuropsychology, and from non-human data. Recently, the conceptualizations of both healthy personality and psychopathology have moved towards a common hierarchical trait perspective. Indeed, the proposed two sets of trait dimensions appear similar and may even be eventually the same. We provide, here, an introduction to this special issue of Personality Neuroscience, where the authors provide overviews of detailed areas where non-human data inform human personality and its psychopathology or provide explicit models for translation to human neuroscience. Once all the papers in the issue have appeared, we will also provide a concluding summary of them.

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Section: Conservation Of Brain Systemsmentioning

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Non-human contributions to personality neuroscience – from fish through primates. An introduction to the special issue

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2022

Personality Neuroscience

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“…We utilized an NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approach, which recognizes reward dysfunction as a salient feature across psychiatric disorders and addresses the heterogeneous nature of traditional, categorical psychiatric diagnoses. In addition to anhedonia, several studies suggested that reward dysfunction was related to depression and anxiety symptoms either in pediatric or adult population ( Ding et al, 2022 , Forbes and Dahl, 2012 , Sequeira et al, 2022 ). Considering the high comorbidity between anxiety and depression, we therefore focused on recruiting a diverse sample of psychotropic-medication-free adolescents with a wide range of psychiatric conditions, particularly those with mood and anxiety symptoms but excluding psychosis and substance use, as well as healthy controls (HC).…”

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Neural function underlying reward expectancy and attainment in adolescents with diverse psychiatric symptoms

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Stern

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“…To this end, the present study examined whether girls with higher neural responsivity to social reward cues are at highest risk for social anxiety symptoms over time when they perceive greater social threat in their peer interactions. This work is informed by recent developmental theories of social anxiety and social anhedonia, which propose that higher social threat contributes to symptoms and correlates of social anxiety in youth more sensitive to incentives due to mediating reinforcement learning processes (Richey et al, 2019;Sequeira et al, 2022).…”

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“…Additional recent theory and frameworks from Richey et al (2019) and Sequeira et al (2022) expand on how high neural reactivity during reward anticipation may interact with social threat to contribute to social anxiety symptoms in adolescents through altered reinforcement learning mechanisms. Higher neural responses to reward cues supporting greater attention to reward-related contingencies in the environment and the consequences of one's actions (Caouette & Guyer, 2014) may facilitate learning.…”

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“…Over time, this teen may come to expect negative social feedback when they get on stage, thus the stage (originally a cue associated with potential reward) comes to be associated with threat or failure and the teen avoids rehearsal. In short, at-risk girls with heightened neural responsivity to social reward cues or contingencies may be at highest risk for social anxiety when they also perceive more social punishment due to modified reinforcement learning processes (Richey et al, 2019;Sequeira et al, 2022).…”

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Pathways to adolescent social anxiety: Testing interactions between neural social reward function and perceived social threat in daily life

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Recent theories suggest that for youth highly sensitive to incentives, perceiving more social threat may contribute to social anxiety (SA) symptoms. In 129 girls (ages 11–13) oversampled for shy/fearful temperament, we thus examined how interactions between neural responses to social reward (vs. neutral) cues (measured during anticipation of peer feedback) and perceived social threat in daily peer interactions (measured using ecological momentary assessment) predict SA symptoms two years later. No significant interactions emerged when neural reward function was modeled as a latent factor. Secondary analyses showed that higher perceived social threat was associated with more severe SA symptoms two years later only for girls with higher basolateral amygdala (BLA) activation to social reward cues at baseline. Interaction effects were specific to BLA activation to social reward (not threat) cues, though a main effect of BLA activation to social threat (vs. neutral) cues on SA emerged. Unexpectedly, interactions between social threat and BLA activation to social reward cues also predicted generalized anxiety and depression symptoms two years later, suggesting possible transdiagnostic risk pathways. Perceiving high social threat may be particularly detrimental for youth highly sensitive to reward incentives, potentially due to mediating reward learning processes, though this remains to be tested.

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Positive valence systems in youth anxiety development: A scoping review

Cited by 12 publications

References 145 publications

Non-human contributions to personality neuroscience – from fish through primates. An introduction to the special issue

Non-human contributions to personality neuroscience – from fish through primates. An introduction to the special issue

Neural function underlying reward expectancy and attainment in adolescents with diverse psychiatric symptoms

Pathways to adolescent social anxiety: Testing interactions between neural social reward function and perceived social threat in daily life

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