Violence-related PTSD and neural activation when seeing emotionally charged male–female interactions | Zendy

Dominik A. Moser | Zendy; Tatjana Aue | Zendy; Francesca Suardi | Zendy; Hana H. Kutlikova | Zendy; María I. Cordero | Zendy; Ana Sancho Rossignol | Zendy; Nicolas Favez | Zendy; Sandra Rusconi Serpa | Zendy; Daniel S. Schechter | Zendy

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Violence-related PTSD and neural activation when seeing emotionally charged male–female interactions

Author(s) -

Dominik A. Moser,

Tatjana Aue,

Francesca Suardi,

Hana H. Kutlikova,

María I. Cordero,

Ana Sancho Rossignol,

Nicolas Favez,

Sandra Rusconi Serpa,

Daniel S. Schechter

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

social cognitive and affective neuroscience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.229

H-Index - 103

eISSN - 1749-5024

pISSN - 1749-5016

DOI - 10.1093/scan/nsu099

Subject(s) - psychology , ventromedial prefrontal cortex , functional magnetic resonance imaging , prosocial behavior , prefrontal cortex , anterior cingulate cortex , dorsolateral prefrontal cortex , clinical psychology , valence (chemistry) , poison control , developmental psychology , audiology , psychiatry , neuroscience , cognition , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , environmental health

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that involves impaired regulation of the fear response to traumatic reminders. This study tested how women with male-perpetrated interpersonal violence-related PTSD (IPV-PTSD) differed in their brain activation from healthy controls (HC) when exposed to scenes of male-female interaction of differing emotional content. Sixteen women with symptoms of IPV-PTSD and 19 HC participated in this study. During magnetic resonance imaging, participants watched a stimulus protocol of 23 different 20 s silent epochs of male-female interactions taken from feature films, which were neutral, menacing or prosocial. IPV-PTSD participants compared with HC showed (i) greater dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) activation in response to menacing vs prosocial scenes and (ii) greater anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), right hippocampus activation and lower ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) activty in response to emotional vs neutral scenes. The fact that IPV-PTSD participants compared with HC showed lower activity of the ventral ACC during emotionally charged scenes regardless of the valence of the scenes suggests that impaired social perception among IPV-PTSD patients transcends menacing contexts and generalizes to a wider variety of emotionally charged male-female interactions.

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