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Blunted cardiac stress reactivity relates to neural hypoactivation

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Ginty AT, Gianaros PJ, Derbyshire SWG, Phillips AC & Carroll D (2013) Blunted cardiac stress reactivity relates to neural hypoactivation. Psychophysiology, 50 (3), pp. 219-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12017

Abstract
The present study compared neural activity in participants with blunted (N = 9) or exaggerated (N = 8) cardiac stress reactions. Neural activity was recorded with fMRI while participants performed a validated stress task and control task. Exaggerated reactors exhibited significant increases in heart rate from control to stress task, whereas blunted reactors had no change in heart rate. Blunted reactors also had reduced activation in the anterior midcingulate cortex and insula compared to exaggerated reactors during the stress condition, and a greater deactivation in the amygdala and posterior cingulate. The biological differences between groups in response to the stress task could not be explained by subjective measures of engagement, stressfulness, or difficulty. This study supports the notion that blunted peripheral physiological stress reactivity may be a marker of a corresponding under-recruitment of brain systems during behavioral states requiring motivated action.

Keywords
Descriptors: Heart rate; Stress reactivity; fMRI

Journal
Psychophysiology: Volume 50, Issue 3

StatusPublished
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Publication date31/03/2013
Publication date online25/01/2013
Date accepted by journal15/11/2012
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ISSN0048-5772
eISSN1469-8986

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Professor Anna Whittaker

Professor Anna Whittaker

Professor of Behavioural Medicine, Sport