Heartbeat-evoked neural response abnormalities in generalized anxiety disorder during peripheral adrenergic stimulation.

Autor:	Verdonk C; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.; VIFASOM (EA 7330 Vigilance Fatigue, Sommeil et Santé Publique), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.; French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France., Teed AR; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States., White EJ; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States., Ren X; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States., Stewart JL; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.; Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States., Paulus MP; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.; Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States., Khalsa SS; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.; Oxley College of Health Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	MedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences [medRxiv] 2023 Dec 22. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 22.
DOI:	10.1101/2023.06.09.23291166
Abstrakt:	Hyperarousal symptoms in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are often incongruent with the observed physiological state, suggesting that abnormal processing of interoceptive signals is a characteristic feature of the disorder. To examine the neural mechanisms underlying interoceptive dysfunction in GAD, we evaluated whether adrenergic modulation of cardiovascular signaling differentially affects the heartbeat evoked potential (HEP), an electrophysiological marker of cardiac interoception, during concurrent electroencephalogram and functional magnetic resonance imaging (EEG-fMRI) scanning. Intravenous infusions of the peripheral adrenergic agonist isoproterenol (0.5 and 2.0 micrograms, μg) were administered in a randomized, double-blinded and placebo-controlled fashion to dynamically perturb the cardiovascular system while recording the associated EEG-fMRI responses. During the 0.5 μg isoproterenol infusion, the GAD group (n=24) exhibited significantly larger changes in HEP amplitude in an opposite direction than the HC group (n=24). In addition, the GAD group showed significantly larger absolute HEP amplitudes than HC during saline infusions, when cardiovascular tone did not increase. No significant group differences in HEP amplitude were identified during the 2.0 μg isoproterenol infusion. Using analyzable blood oxygenation level dependent fMRI data from participants with concurrent EEG-fMRI data (21 GAD and 21 HC), we found that the aforementioned HEP effects were uncorrelated with fMRI signals in the insula, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, and somatosensory cortex, brain regions implicated in cardiac signal processing according to prior fMRI studies. These findings provide additional evidence of dysfunctional cardiac interoception in GAD and identify neural processes at the electrophysiological level that may be independent from blood oxygen level-dependent responses during peripheral adrenergic stimulation. Competing Interests: Competing Interests. MPP is an advisor to Spring Care, Inc., a behavioral health startup, and he has received royalties for an article about methamphetamine in UpToDate, both unrelated to the current work. All other authors report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.
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