Konzok, Julian and Henze, Gina-Isabelle and Peter, Hannah and Giglberger, Marina and Baertl, Christoph and Massau, Claudia and Kaergel, Christian and Schiffer, Boris and Eisenbarth, Hedwig and Wuest, Stefan and Kudielka, Brigitte M. (2021) Revision: Externalizing behavior in healthy young adults is associated with lower cortisol responses to acute stress and altered neural activation in the dorsal striatum. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, 58 (12): e13936. ISSN 0048-5772, 1469-8986
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The externalizing spectrum is characterized by disinhibition, impulsivity, antisocial-aggressive behavior as well as substance (mis)use. Studies in forensic samples and mentally impaired children suggested that higher rates of externalization are linked to lower cortisol stress responses and altered affect-related neural activation. In this fMRI-study, we investigated whether externalizing behavior in healthy participants is likewise associated with altered cortisol responses and neural activity to stress. Following a quasi-experimental approach, we tested healthy participants (N = 61, 31 males) from the higher versus lower range of the non-clinical variation in externalization (31 participants with high externalization) as assessed by the subscales disinhibition and meanness of the Triarchic-Psychopathy-Measure. All participants were exposed to ScanSTRESS, a standardized psychosocial stress paradigm for scanner environments. In both groups, ScanSTRESS induced a significant rise in cortisol levels with the high externalization group showing significantly lower cortisol responses to stress than the low externalization group. This was mainly driven by males. Further, individual increases in cortisol predicted neural response differences between externalization groups, indicating more activation in the dorsal striatum in low externalization. This was primarily driven by females. In contrast, post-hoc analysis showed that hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis hyporeactivity in males was associated with prefrontal and hippocampal activation. Our data substantiate that individuals from the general population high on externalization, show reduced cortisol stress responses. Furthermore, dorsal striatum activity as part of the mesolimbic system, known to be sensitive to environmental adversity, seems to play a role in externalization-specific cortisol stress responses. Beyond that, a modulating influence of gender was disclosed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY-TRAITS; OPPOSITIONAL-DEFIANT DISORDER; POSITRON-EMISSION-TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; EMOTION DYSREGULATION; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINE; ANTISOCIAL-BEHAVIOR; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; SALIVARY CORTISOL; cortisol; dorsal striatum; externalizing spectrum; fMRI; ScanSTRESS |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie VII (Medizinische Psychologie, Psychologische Diagnostik und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Brigitte Kudielka |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2022 08:12 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2022 08:12 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/46592 |
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