Table of Contents Author Guidelines Submit a Manuscript
Table of Contents Alerts

To receive news and publication updates for Neural Plasticity, enter your email address in the box below.

Neural Plasticity
Volume 2017, Article ID 9297621, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9297621
Research Article

Correlation between Traits of Emotion-Based Impulsivity and Intrinsic Default-Mode Network Activity

Jizheng Zhao,1,2 Dardo Tomasi,2 Corinde E. Wiers,1 Ehsan Shokri-Kojori,1 Şükrü B. Demiral,1 Yi Zhang,3 Nora D. Volkow,2,4 and Gene-Jack Wang2

1College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
2Laboratory of Neuroimaging, National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
3Center for Brain Imaging, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710071, China
4National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

Correspondence should be addressed to Gene-Jack Wang; vog.hin@gnaw.kcaj-eneg

Received 9 June 2017; Revised 24 September 2017; Accepted 15 October 2017; Published 31 October 2017

Academic Editor: Stuart C. Mangel

Copyright © 2017 Jizheng Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Linked References

  1. M. A. Cyders, G. T. Smith, N. S. Spillane, S. Fischer, A. M. Annus, and C. Peterson, “Integration of impulsivity and positive mood to predict risky behavior: development and validation of a measure of positive urgency,” Psychological Assessment, vol. 19, pp. 107–118, 2007. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  2. K. Bresin, D. L. Carter, and K. H. Gordon, “The relationship between trait impulsivity, negative affective states, and urge for nonsuicidal self-injury: a daily diary study,” Psychiatry Research, vol. 205, pp. 227–231, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  3. S. Fischer, K. G. Anderson, and G. T. Smith, “Coping with distress by eating or drinking: role of trait urgency and expectancies,” Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, vol. 18, pp. 269–274, 2004. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  4. S. Fischer and G. T. Smith, “Binge eating, problem drinking, and pathological gambling: linking behavior to shared traits and social learning,” Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 44, pp. 789–800, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  5. L. Claes and J. Muehlenkamp, “The relationship between the UPPS-P impulsivity dimensions and nonsuicidal self-injury characteristics in male and female high-school students,” Psychiatry Journal, vol. 2013, Article ID 654847, 5 pages, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
  6. T. C. Zapolski, M. A. Cyders, and G. T. Smith, “Positive urgency predicts illegal drug use and risky sexual behavior,” Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, vol. 23, pp. 348–354, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  7. M. A. Cyders, K. Flory, S. Rainer, and G. T. Smith, “The role of personality dispositions to risky behavior in predicting first-year college drinking,” Addiction, vol. 104, pp. 193–202, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  8. A. Kaiser, J. A. Bonsu, R. J. Charnigo, R. Milich, and D. R. Lynam, “Impulsive personality and alcohol use: bidirectional relations over one year,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, vol. 77, pp. 473–482, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  9. M. A. Cyders and G. T. Smith, “Emotion-based dispositions to rash action: positive and negative urgency,” Psychological Bulletin, vol. 134, p. 807, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  10. M. J. Hoptman, D. Antonius, C. J. Mauro, E. M. Parker, and D. C. Javitt, “Cortical thinning, functional connectivity, and mood-related impulsivity in schizophrenia: relationship to aggressive attitudes and behavior,” The American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 171, pp. 939–948, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  11. L. Moreno-López, A. Catena, M. J. Fernández-Serrano et al., “Trait impulsivity and prefrontal gray matter reductions in cocaine dependent individuals,” Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol. 125, pp. 208–214, 2012. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  12. N. Muhlert and A. D. Lawrence, “Brain structure correlates of emotion-based rash impulsivity,” NeuroImage, vol. 115, pp. 138–146, 2015. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  13. M. A. Cyders, M. Dzemidzic, W. J. Eiler, A. Coskunpinar, K. Karyadi, and D. A. Kareken, “Negative urgency and ventromedial prefrontal cortex responses to alcohol cues: fMRI evidence of emotion-based impulsivity,” Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 38, pp. 409–417, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  14. B. Biswal, F. Z. Yetkin, V. M. Haughton, and J. S. Hyde, “Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo-planar MRI,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 34, pp. 537–541, 1995. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  15. M. D. Fox, A. Z. Snyder, J. L. Vincent, M. Corbetta, D. C. Van Essen, and M. E. Raichle, “The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 102, pp. 9673–9678, 2005. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  16. B. B. Biswal, M. Mennes, X. N. Zuo et al., “Toward discovery science of human brain function,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107, pp. 4734–4739, 2010. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  17. M. X. Cohen, J.-C. Schoene-Bake, C. E. Elger, and B. Weber, “Connectivity-based segregation of the human striatum predicts personality characteristics,” Nature Neuroscience, vol. 12, pp. 32–34, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  18. E. Shokri-Kojori, D. Tomasi, C. E. Wiers, G.-J. Wang, and N. D. Volkow, “Alcohol affects brain functional connectivity and its coupling with behavior: greater effects in male heavy drinkers,” Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 22, pp. 1185–1195, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  19. J. Golchert, J. Smallwood, E. Jefferies et al., “In need of constraint: understanding the role of the cingulate cortex in the impulsive mind,” NeuroImage, vol. 146, pp. 804–813, 2017. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  20. X. Zhu, C. R. Cortes, K. Mathur, D. Tomasi, and R. Momenan, “Model-free functional connectivity and impulsivity correlates of alcohol dependence: a resting-state study,” Addiction Biology, vol. 22, 2015. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  21. P. R. Goldin, K. McRae, W. Ramel, and J. J. Gross, “The neural bases of emotion regulation: reappraisal and suppression of negative emotion,” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 63, pp. 577–586, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  22. R. Leech and D. J. Sharp, “The role of the posterior cingulate cortex in cognition and disease,” Brain, vol. 137, p. 12, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  23. C. Biskup, K. Helmbold, D. Baurmann et al., “Resting state default mode network connectivity in children and adolescents with ADHD after acute tryptophan depletion,” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol. 134, pp. 161–171, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  24. A. Nagano-Saito, J. Liu, J. Doyon, and A. Dagher, “Dopamine modulates default mode network deactivation in elderly individuals during the Tower of London task,” Neuroscience Letters, vol. 458, pp. 1–5, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  25. D. Tomasi, N. D. Volkow, R. Wang et al., “Dopamine transporters in striatum correlate with deactivation in the default mode network during visuospatial attention,” PLoS One, vol. 4, article e6102, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  26. D. S. Margulies, J. Böttger, X. Long et al., “Resting developments: a review of fMRI post-processing methodologies for spontaneous brain activity,” Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 23, pp. 289–307, 2010. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  27. S. N. Haber and R. Calzavara, “The cortico-basal ganglia integrative network: the role of the thalamus,” Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 78, pp. 69–74, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  28. K. B. Nooner, S. Colcombe, R. Tobe et al., “The NKI-Rockland Sample: a model for accelerating the pace of discovery science in psychiatry,” Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 6, 2012. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  29. S. P. Whiteside and D. R. Lynam, “The five factor model and impulsivity: using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity,” Personality & Individual Differences, vol. 30, pp. 669–689, 2001. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  30. A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, and M. G. Carbin, “Psychometric properties of the Beck depression inventory: twenty-five years of evaluation,” Clinical Psychology Review, vol. 8, pp. 77–100, 1988. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  31. J. D. Power, A. Mitra, T. O. Laumann, A. Z. Snyder, B. L. Schlaggar, and S. E. Petersen, “Methods to detect, characterize, and remove motion artifact in resting state fMRI,” NeuroImage, vol. 84, pp. 320–341, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  32. C. Yan and Y. Zang, “DPARSF: a MATLAB toolbox for “pipeline” data analysis of resting-state fMRI,” Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, vol. 4, p. 13, 2010. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
  33. Z. Yu-Feng, H. Yong, Z. Chao-Zhe et al., “Altered baseline brain activity in children with ADHD revealed by resting-state functional MRI,” Brain and Development, vol. 29, pp. 83–91, 2007. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  34. L. Fan, H. Li, J. Zhuo et al., “The human brainnetome atlas: a new brain atlas based on connectional architecture,” Cerebral Cortex, vol. 26, pp. 3508–3526, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  35. B. A. Vogt, L. Vogt, and S. Laureys, “Cytology and functionally correlated circuits of human posterior cingulate areas,” NeuroImage, vol. 29, pp. 452–466, 2006. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  36. L. Palaniyappan, M. Simmonite, T. P. White, E. B. Liddle, and P. F. Liddle, “Neural primacy of the salience processing system in schizophrenia,” Neuron, vol. 79, pp. 814–828, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  37. A. Eklund, T. E. Nichols, and H. Knutsson, “Cluster failure: why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 113, pp. 7900–7905, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  38. G. T. Smith and M. A. Cyders, “Integrating affect and impulsivity: the role of positive and negative urgency in substance use risk,” Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol. 163, pp. S3–S12, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  39. M. A. Cyders, M. Dzemidzic, W. J. Eiler, A. Coskunpinar, K. A. Karyadi, and D. A. Kareken, “Negative urgency mediates the relationship between amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex activation to negative emotional stimuli and general risk-taking,” Cerebral Cortex, vol. 25, pp. 4094–4102, 2015. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  40. M. L. Kringelbach, “The human orbitofrontal cortex: linking reward to hedonic experience,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 6, pp. 691–702, 2005. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  41. D. Tomasi and N. D. Volkow, “Abnormal functional connectivity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder,” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 71, pp. 443–450, 2012. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  42. J. Lévesque, Y. Joanette, B. Mensour et al., “Neural basis of emotional self-regulation in childhood,” Neuroscience, vol. 129, pp. 361–369, 2004. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  43. A. K. Mak, Z.-g. Hu, J. X. Zhang, Z.-w. Xiao, and T. M. Lee, “Neural correlates of regulation of positive and negative emotions: an fMRI study,” Neuroscience Letters, vol. 457, pp. 101–106, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  44. D. Tomasi and N. D. Volkow, “Association between functional connectivity hubs and brain networks,” Cerebral Cortex, vol. 21, pp. 2003–2013, 2011. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  45. D. Tomasi and N. D. Volkow, “Functional connectivity density mapping,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 107, pp. 9885–9890, 2010. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  46. R. N. Spreng, W. D. Stevens, J. P. Chamberlain, A. W. Gilmore, and D. L. Schacter, “Default network activity, coupled with the frontoparietal control network, supports goal-directed cognition,” NeuroImage, vol. 53, pp. 303–317, 2010. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  47. R. J. Maddock, A. S. Garrett, and M. H. Buonocore, “Remembering familiar people: the posterior cingulate cortex and autobiographical memory retrieval,” Neuroscience, vol. 104, pp. 667–676, 2001. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  48. B. Y. Hayden, A. C. Nair, A. N. McCoy, and M. L. Platt, “Posterior cingulate cortex mediates outcome-contingent allocation of behavior,” Neuron, vol. 60, pp. 19–25, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  49. J. M. Pearson, S. R. Heilbronner, D. L. Barack, B. Y. Hayden, and M. L. Platt, “Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 15, pp. 143–151, 2011. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  50. K. D. Singh and I. Fawcett, “Transient and linearly graded deactivation of the human default-mode network by a visual detection task,” NeuroImage, vol. 41, pp. 100–112, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  51. E. J. Sonuga-Barke and F. X. Castellanos, “Spontaneous attentional fluctuations in impaired states and pathological conditions: a neurobiological hypothesis,” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 31, pp. 977–986, 2007. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  52. D. H. Weissman, K. Roberts, K. Visscher, and M. Woldorff, “The neural bases of momentary lapses in attention,” Nature Neuroscience, vol. 9, pp. 971–978, 2006. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  53. V. Bonnelle, R. Leech, K. M. Kinnunen et al., “Default mode network connectivity predicts sustained attention deficits after traumatic brain injury,” The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 31, pp. 13442–13451, 2011. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  54. D. Tomasi, G. J. Wang, and N. D. Volkow, “Association between striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptors and brain activation during visual attention: effects of sleep deprivation,” Translational Psychiatry, vol. 6, article e828, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
  55. C. Kelly, Z. G. De, M. A. Di et al., “L-Dopa modulates functional connectivity in striatal cognitive and motor networks: a double-blind placebo-controlled study,” NeuroImage, vol. 47, pp. 7364–7378, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  56. C. Chen, D. Xiu, C. Chen et al., “Regional homogeneity of resting-state brain activity suppresses the effect of dopamine-related genes on sensory processing sensitivity,” PLoS One, vol. 10, article e0133143, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  57. M. L. Dixon and K. Christoff, “The lateral prefrontal cortex and complex value-based learning and decision making,” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 45, pp. 9–18, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  58. P. J. Le Reste, C. Haegelen, B. Gibaud, T. Moreau, and X. Morandi, “Connections of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with the thalamus: a probabilistic tractography study,” Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy, vol. 38, pp. 705–710, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  59. M. Koenigs and J. Grafman, “The functional neuroanatomy of depression: distinct roles for ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,” Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 201, pp. 239–243, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  60. A. W. MacDonald, J. D. Cohen, V. A. Stenger, and C. S. Carter, “Dissociating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive control,” Science, vol. 288, pp. 1835–1838, 2000. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  61. T. Canli and K.-P. Lesch, “Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition,” Nature Neuroscience, vol. 10, pp. 1103–1109, 2007. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  62. P. T. Bell and J. M. Shine, “Subcortical contributions to large-scale network communication,” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 71, pp. 313–322, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  63. S. Mackey, B. Chaarani, K.-J. Kan et al., “Brain regions related to impulsivity mediate the effects of early adversity on antisocial behavior,” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 275–282, 2017. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  64. J. G. Ramaekers, J. H. van Wel, D. Spronk et al., “Cannabis and cocaine decrease cognitive impulse control and functional corticostriatal connectivity in drug users with low activity DBH genotypes,” Brain Imaging and Behavior, vol. 10, pp. 1254–1263, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  65. P. Fransson and G. Marrelec, “The precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex plays a pivotal role in the default mode network: evidence from a partial correlation network analysis,” NeuroImage, vol. 42, pp. 1178–1184, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  66. S. I. Cunningham, D. Tomasi, and N. D. Volkow, “Structural and functional connectivity of the precuneus and thalamus to the default mode network,” Human Brain Mapping, vol. 38, pp. 938–956, 2017. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  67. R. N. Spreng, R. A. Mar, and A. S. N. Kim, “The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind, and the default mode: a quantitative meta-analysis,” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 21, pp. 489–510, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  68. S. Delli Pizzi, P. Chiacchieretta, D. Mantini et al., “GABA content within medial prefrontal cortex predicts the variability of fronto-limbic effective connectivity,” Brain Structure and Function, vol. 222, pp. 3217–3229, 2017. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
  69. S. H. Kim and S. Hamann, “Neural correlates of positive and negative emotion regulation,” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 19, pp. 776–798, 2007. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  70. T. F. Heatherton and D. D. Wagner, “Cognitive neuroscience of self-regulation failure,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 15, pp. 132–139, 2011. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
  71. P. C. Broderick and P. A. Jennings, “Mindfulness for adolescents: a promising approach to supporting emotion regulation and preventing risky behavior,” New Directions for Student Leadership, vol. 2012, pp. 111–126, 2012. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus