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Conscious and non-conscious conditioning in anxiety

Conscious and non-conscious conditioning in anxiety. Anne Richards, Naz Derakshan & Leor Shoker School of Psychology Birkbeck College. Amygdala and prefrontal activity in anxiety.

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Conscious and non-conscious conditioning in anxiety

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  1. Conscious and non-conscious conditioning in anxiety Anne Richards, Naz Derakshan & Leor Shoker School of Psychology Birkbeck College

  2. Amygdala and prefrontal activity in anxiety • Amygdala & hippocampus active for attended and unattended emotion, but may be stronger for unattended (Critchley et al, 2000; Habel et al., 2007; Keightly et al., 2003; Morris et al., 1998; Walen et al., 1998). • Prefrontal cortical activity is associated with attempts to regulate the outcome of attentional, interpretative and associative processes triggered by threat cue (e.g., Kalisch et al., 2006; Milad et al., 2007). • Outcome of attentional competition between neutral task and threat distractor possibly determined by relative strength of modulatory signals from PFC (supporting task-relevant processing) and amygdala (supporting threat stimuli) (Bishop, 2007). Amygdala active both groups, stronger in anxious Prefrontal: more active non-anxious Amygdala active both groups, stronger in anxious Richards & Blanchette (2004; submitted), Richards et al. (2007, submitted) • Predictions: • Amygdala activity for unmasked conditioning/Stroop and for masked conditiong/Stroop. More activity for anxious. More activity for masked? • Prefrontal activity for unmasked conditoning/Stroop, but larger for non-anxious • Behavioural effect for high-anxious for Congruent conditioning/Stroop • Affective ratings of masked and unmasked stimuli to check for conditioning success

  3. Design • Behavioural • Pre-test for anxiety (high vs. low) • Masked and Unmasked Conditioning (fMRI) • Masked and Unmasked Stroop (fMRI) - 2 (masked vs. unmasked) x 2 (negatively- vs neutrally-conditioned) • Affective Ratings Neutral Negative nimbu damf nimur nimbur dbz nimbur dbz nimur

  4. Design Specs: Conditioning (50 negative, 50 neutral). • duration ~= 15 mins Stroop task • duration ~= 16 mins fMRI • Whole brain fMRI (TR=3, TE=50ms, 3x3x3mm resolution) • ISI: 4-6 seconds • TR: 2282 ms/32 slices • 160 trials • 40 per condition • Block design • Collecting behavioural Stroop data Affective Ratings • Awareness Check • duration ~= 15 mins Participants: • 32, right-handed, 16 high and 16 low-anxious (pre-screened) • recruited from Birkbeck Participant Panel • No clinical history

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