Brain responses to disorder‐related visual threat in panic disorder

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  • Katharina Feldker
    Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience University of Muenster Muenster Germany
  • Carina Yvonne Heitmann
    Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience University of Muenster Muenster Germany
  • Paula Neumeister
    Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience University of Muenster Muenster Germany
  • Maximilian Bruchmann
    Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience University of Muenster Muenster Germany
  • Laura Vibrans
    Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience University of Muenster Muenster Germany
  • Pienie Zwitserlood
    University of Muenster Muenster Germany
  • Thomas Straube
    Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience University of Muenster Muenster Germany

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Panic disorder (PD) patients show aberrant neural responses to threatening stimuli in an extended fear network, but results are only partially comparable, and studies implementing disorder‐related visual scenes are lacking as stimuli. The neural responses and functional connectivity to a newly developed set of disorder‐related, ecologically valid scenes as compared with matched neutral visual scenes, using event‐related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 26 PD patients and 26 healthy controls (HC) were investigated. PD patients versus HC showed hyperactivation in an extended fear network comprising brainstem, insula, thalamus, anterior, and mid‐cingulate cortex and (dorso‐)medial prefrontal cortex for disorder‐related versus neutral scenes. Amygdala differences between groups failed significance. Subjective levels of anxiety significantly correlated with brainstem activation in PD patients. Analysis of functional connectivity by means of beta series correlation revealed no emotion‐specific alterations in connectivity in PD patients versus HC. The results suggest that subjective anxiety evoked by external stimuli is directly related to altered activation in the homeostatic alarm system in PD. With novel disorder‐related stimuli, the study sheds new light on the neural underpinnings of pathological threat processing in PD. <jats:italic>Hum Brain Mapp 37:4439–4453, 2016</jats:italic>. © <jats:bold>2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.</jats:bold></jats:p>

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