Regular articlePersonality influences limbic-cortical interactions during sad mood induction
Section snippets
Participants and group selection procedure
Personality traits were identified and quantified using the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R), a validated tool that operationalizes the Five-Factor Model of Personality (Costa and McCrae, 1997). This inventory provides domain scores that correspond to the five orthogonal factors Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness-to-Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness with six more specific or narrow facet scales within each factor (Costa and McCrae, 1997). The NEO-PI-R consists of 240
Results
Both the NAS and PAS groups achieved the targeted maximinum sad mood state (minimum 6 out of 7) for each of the sad scans.
Discussion
The current study examined brain networks linking the subgenual cingulate (Cg25) to sad mood as a specific combination of personality traits. Subjects were divided into a negative affective style group (NAS; high Depression, N3, facet of Neuroticism and low Positive Emotion, E6, facet of Extraversion) versus a positive affective style group (PAS; low N3, high E6), according to their scores on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Participants were scanned using positron emission tomography to
References (59)
- et al.
Replicating the five factor model of personality in a psychiatric sample
Pers. Individ. Differences
(1999) - et al.
Genetically driven variation in serotonin uptakeis there a link to affective spectrum, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders?
Biol. Psychiatry
(1998) - et al.
Differential neural correlates of sadness and fear in healthy subjectsimplications of affective disorders
Biol. Psychiatry
(2000) - et al.
A potential role for thalamocingulate circuitry in human maternal behavior
Biol. Psychiatry
(2002) - et al.
Regional metabolic effects of fluoxetine in major depressionserial changes and relationship to clinical response
Biol. Psychiatry
(2000) - et al.
Spatial pattern analysis of functional brain images using partial least squares
NeuroImage
(1996) - et al.
In vivo serotonin 5HT(2A) receptor binding and personality traits in healthy subjectsa positron emission tomography study
NeuroImage
(2002) - et al.
Personality and outcome in depressionan 18-month prospective follow-up study
J. Affect. Disdord.
(2001) - et al.
Neurobehavioral effects of prenatal alcohol. Part II. partial least squares analysis
Neurotoxicol. Terato.
(1989) - et al.
Emotional impairment after right orbitofrontal lesion in a patient without cognitive deficits
NeuroReport
(1999)
Emotion, decision making and the orbitofrontal cortex
Cereb. Cortex
Positron emission tomography measurement of cerebral metabolic correlates of tryptophan depletion-induced depressive relapse
Arch. Gen. Psychiatry
Amygdala response to happy faces as a function of extraversion
Science
An fMRI study of personality influences on brain reactivity to emotional stimuli
Behav. Neurosci.
Tripartite model of anxiety and depressionpsychometric evidence and taxonomic implications
J. Abnorm. Psychol.
A systematic method for clinical description and classification of personality variants
Arch. Gen. Psychiatry.
A psychobiological model of temperament and character
Arch. Gen. Psychiatry
Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-RTM) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)Professional Manual
Stability and change in personality assessmentthe revised NEO Personality Inventory in the year 2000
J. Pers. Assess.
Gender differences in personality traits across culturesrobust and surprising findings
J. Pers. Soc. Psychol.
Randomization Tests
Bootstrap methods for standard errors, confidence intervals and other measures of statistical accuracy
Statis. Sci.
Neuroticism, major depression and gendera population-based twin study
Psychol. Med.
Noninvasive functional brain mapping by change-distribution analysis of averaged PET images of H215O tissue activity
J. Nucl. Med.
Subcortical projections of area 25 (subgenual cortex) of the Macaque monkey
J. Comp. Neurol.
Functional connectivitythe principal component analysis of large (PET) data sets
J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab.
Statistical parametric maps in functional imaginga general linear approach
Hum. Brain Mapp.
Brain activity during transient sadness and happiness in healthy women
Am. J. Psychiatry
Cited by (56)
Are depressed patients too aware of others? the contribution of cerebral imaging to major depression physiopathology
2018, Bulletin de l'Academie Nationale de MedecineA multiple hold-out framework for Sparse Partial Least Squares
2016, Journal of Neuroscience MethodsOn the interaction between sad mood and cognitive control: The effect of induced sadness on electrophysiological modulations underlying Stroop conflict processing
2013, International Journal of Psychophysiology