Title :

Correlates of Social Exclusion in Social Anxiety Disorder: An fMRI study

Author(s) :

Heeren, Alexandre [Auteur]
Harvard University
Institut de recherche en sciences psychologiques [IPSY]
Dricot, Laurence [Auteur]
Institute of Neuroscience [Bruxelles]
Billieux, Joël [Auteur]
Université du Luxembourg = University of Luxembourg = Universität Luxemburg [uni.lu]
Institut de recherche en sciences psychologiques [IPSY]
Philippot, Pierre [Auteur]
Institut de recherche en sciences psychologiques [IPSY]
Grynberg, Delphine [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
de Timary, Philippe [Auteur]

Institut de recherche en sciences psychologiques [IPSY]
Institute of Neuroscience [Bruxelles]
Maurage, Pierre [Auteur]
Institut de recherche en sciences psychologiques [IPSY]
Institute of Neuroscience [Bruxelles]

Journal title :

Scientific reports

Abbreviated title :

Sci Rep

Volume number :

7

Pages :

260

Publication date :

2017-03-21

ISSN :

2045-2322

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is maintained by biased information-processing vis-à-vis threat of social exclusion. However, uncertainty still abounds regarding the very nature of this sensitivity ...
Show more >Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is maintained by biased information-processing vis-à-vis threat of social exclusion. However, uncertainty still abounds regarding the very nature of this sensitivity to social exclusion in SAD. Especially, brain alterations related to social exclusion have not been explored in SAD. Our primary purpose was thus to determine both the self-report and neural correlates of social exclusion in this population. 23 patients with SAD and 23 matched nonanxious controls played a virtual game ("Cyberball") during fMRI recording. Participants were first included by other players, then excluded, and finally re-included. At the behavioral level, patients with SAD exhibited significantly higher levels of social exclusion feelings than nonanxious controls. At the brain level, patients with SAD exhibited significantly higher activation within the left inferior frontal gyrus relative to nonanxious controls during the re-inclusion phase. Moreover, self-report of social exclusion correlates with the activity of this cluster among individuals qualifying for SAD diagnosis. Our pattern of findings lends strong support to the notion that SAD may be better portrayed by a poor ability to recover following social exclusion than during social exclusion per se. These findings value social neuroscience as an innovative procedure to gain new insight into the underlying mechanisms of SAD.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Research team(s) :

Équipe Dynamique Émotionnelle et Pathologies (DEEP)

Submission date :

2019-02-13T14:21:37Z
2019-12-12T07:55:39Z
2020-03-23T14:47:16Z