Neuronal and Behavioral Correlates of Health Anxiety: Results of an Illness-Related Emotional Stroop Task
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- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
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- Autoren
- Michael Witthoeft
- Daniela Mier
- Julia Ofer
- Tobias Mueller
- Fred Rist
- Peter Kirsch
- Josef Bailer
- Carsten Diener
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000315615000005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1159/000345545
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- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: 099IP
- PubMed Identifier: 23296017
- ISSN
- 0302-282X
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 2
- Zeitschrift
- NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY
- Schlüsselwörter
- Health anxiety
- Hypochondriasis
- Emotional Stroop
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Anterior cingulate cortex
- Emotional interference
- Attentional bias
- Paginierung
- 93 - 102
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2013
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Neuronal and Behavioral Correlates of Health Anxiety: Results of an Illness-Related Emotional Stroop Task
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 67
Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)
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- Abstract
- <jats:p><b><i>Background:</i></b> Health anxiety (HA) is defined as the objectively unfounded fear or conviction of suffering from a severe illness. Predominant attention allocation to illness-related information is regarded as a central process in the development and maintenance of HA, yet little is known about the neuronal correlates of this attentional bias. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> An emotional Stroop task with body symptom, illness, and neutral words was employed to elicit emotional interference in healthy participants with high (HA+, n = 12) and low (HA–, n = 12) HA during functional magnetic resonance imaging. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Prolonged reaction times for indicating the color of symptom words and a decrease in rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) activation were seen in HA+ participants. Emotional interference effects on the behavioral level were negatively related to rACC activity over the whole group. Groups did not differ during the processing of threatening illness words. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> The results indicate stronger attention allocation toward body symptom words already in subclinical HA. This attentional bias appears to be linked to hypoactivity of the rACC which impedes effective emotional interference reduction, leading instead to a ruminative processing of the stimulus content.</jats:p>
- Autoren
- Michael Witthöft
- Daniela Mier
- Julia Ofer
- Tobias Müller
- Fred Rist
- Peter Kirsch
- Josef Bailer
- Carsten Diener
- DOI
- 10.1159/000345545
- eISSN
- 1423-0224
- ISSN
- 0302-282X
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 2
- Zeitschrift
- Neuropsychobiology
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2013
- Paginierung
- 93 - 102
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2013
- Status
- Published
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- S. Karger AG
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000345545
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2022
- Titel
- Neuronal and Behavioral Correlates of Health Anxiety: Results of an Illness-Related Emotional Stroop Task
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 67
Datenquelle: Crossref
- Abstract
- <h4>Background</h4>Health anxiety (HA) is defined as the objectively unfounded fear or conviction of suffering from a severe illness. Predominant attention allocation to illness-related information is regarded as a central process in the development and maintenance of HA, yet little is known about the neuronal correlates of this attentional bias.<h4>Methods</h4>An emotional Stroop task with body symptom, illness, and neutral words was employed to elicit emotional interference in healthy participants with high (HA+, n = 12) and low (HA-, n = 12) HA during functional magnetic resonance imaging.<h4>Results</h4>Prolonged reaction times for indicating the color of symptom words and a decrease in rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) activation were seen in HA+ participants. Emotional interference effects on the behavioral level were negatively related to rACC activity over the whole group. Groups did not differ during the processing of threatening illness words.<h4>Conclusion</h4>The results indicate stronger attention allocation toward body symptom words already in subclinical HA. This attentional bias appears to be linked to hypoactivity of the rACC which impedes effective emotional interference reduction, leading instead to a ruminative processing of the stimulus content.
- Addresses
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. witthoef@uni-mainz.de
- Autoren
- Michael Witthöft
- Daniela Mier
- Julia Ofer
- Tobias Müller
- Fred Rist
- Peter Kirsch
- Josef Bailer
- Carsten Diener
- DOI
- 10.1159/000345545
- eISSN
- 1423-0224
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 23296017
- Open access
- false
- ISSN
- 0302-282X
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 2
- Zeitschrift
- Neuropsychobiology
- Schlüsselwörter
- Brain
- Humans
- Oxygen
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Brain Mapping
- Analysis of Variance
- Photic Stimulation
- Emotions
- Anxiety
- Reaction Time
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Semantics
- Vocabulary
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Adult
- Female
- Male
- Young Adult
- Self Report
- Sprache
- eng
- Medium
- Print-Electronic
- Online publication date
- 2013
- Paginierung
- 93 - 102
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2013
- Status
- Published
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2013
- Titel
- Neuronal and behavioral correlates of health anxiety: results of an illness-related emotional Stroop task.
- Sub types
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 67
Datenquelle: Europe PubMed Central
- Abstract
- BACKGROUND: Health anxiety (HA) is defined as the objectively unfounded fear or conviction of suffering from a severe illness. Predominant attention allocation to illness-related information is regarded as a central process in the development and maintenance of HA, yet little is known about the neuronal correlates of this attentional bias. METHODS: An emotional Stroop task with body symptom, illness, and neutral words was employed to elicit emotional interference in healthy participants with high (HA+, n = 12) and low (HA-, n = 12) HA during functional magnetic resonance imaging. RESULTS: Prolonged reaction times for indicating the color of symptom words and a decrease in rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) activation were seen in HA+ participants. Emotional interference effects on the behavioral level were negatively related to rACC activity over the whole group. Groups did not differ during the processing of threatening illness words. CONCLUSION: The results indicate stronger attention allocation toward body symptom words already in subclinical HA. This attentional bias appears to be linked to hypoactivity of the rACC which impedes effective emotional interference reduction, leading instead to a ruminative processing of the stimulus content.
- Date of acceptance
- 2012
- Autoren
- Michael Witthöft
- Daniela Mier
- Julia Ofer
- Tobias Müller
- Fred Rist
- Peter Kirsch
- Josef Bailer
- Carsten Diener
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23296017
- DOI
- 10.1159/000345545
- eISSN
- 1423-0224
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 2
- Zeitschrift
- Neuropsychobiology
- Schlüsselwörter
- Adult
- Analysis of Variance
- Anxiety
- Brain
- Brain Mapping
- Emotions
- Female
- Humans
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Oxygen
- Photic Stimulation
- Reaction Time
- Self Report
- Semantics
- Vocabulary
- Young Adult
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- Switzerland
- Paginierung
- 93 - 102
- PII
- 000345545
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2013
- Status
- Published
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2013
- Titel
- Neuronal and behavioral correlates of health anxiety: results of an illness-related emotional Stroop task.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 67
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