Behavioral adjustment plays an important role in the treatment and relapse of drug addiction. Nonetheless,few studies have examined behavioral adjustment and its plasticity following error commission in methamphetamin...Behavioral adjustment plays an important role in the treatment and relapse of drug addiction. Nonetheless,few studies have examined behavioral adjustment and its plasticity following error commission in methamphetamine（METH） dependence, which is detrimental to human health. Thus, we investigated the behavioral adjustment performance following error commission in long-term METH addicts and how it varied with the application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation（r TMS） of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex（DLPFC）. Twenty-nine male long-term METH addicts（for [ 3 years） were randomly assigned to high-frequency（10 Hz, n = 15） or sham（n = 14） r TMS of the left DLPFC during a two-choice oddball task. Twenty-six age-matched, healthy male adults participated in the two-choice oddball task pretest to establish normal performance for comparison. The results showed that 10 Hz r TMS over the left DLPFC significantly decreased the post-error slowing effect in response times of METH addicts. In addition, the 10 Hz r TMS intervention remarkably reduced the reaction times during post-error trials but not post-correct trials. While the 10 Hz r TMS group showed a more pronounced post-error slowing effect than the healthy participants during the pretest, the posterror slowing effect in the posttest of this sample was similar to that in the healthy participants. These results suggest that high-frequency r TMS over the left DLPFC is a useful protocol for the improvement of behavioral adjustment after error commission in long-term METH addicts.展开更多
Background:Behavioral inhibitory control(BIC)depicts a cognitive function of inhibiting inappropriate dominant responses to meet the context requirement.Despite abundant research into neural substrates of BIC during t...Background:Behavioral inhibitory control(BIC)depicts a cognitive function of inhibiting inappropriate dominant responses to meet the context requirement.Despite abundant research into neural substrates of BIC during the go/no-go and stop signal tasks,these tasks were consistently shown hard to isolate neural processes of response inhibition,which is of primary interest,from those of response generation.Therefore,it is necessary to explore neural substrates of BIC using the two-choice oddball(TCO)task,whose design of dual responses is thought to produce an inhibition effect free of the confounds of response generation.Objective:The current study aims at depicting neural substrates of performing behavioral inhibitory control in the two-choice oddball task,which designs dual responses to balance response generation.Also,neural substrates of performing BIC during this task are compared with those in the go/no-go task,which designs a motor response in a single condition.Methods:The present study integrated go/no-go(GNG)and TCO tasks into a new Three-Choice BIC paradigm,which consists of stan-dard(75%),deviant(12.5%),and no-go(12.5%)conditions simultaneously.Forty-eight college students participated in this experiment,which required them to respond to standard(frequent)and deviant stimuli by pressing different keys,while inhibiting motor response to no-go stimuli.Conjunction analysis and ROI(region of interest)analysis were adopted to identify the unique neural mechanisms that subserve the processes of BIC.Results:Both tasks are effective in assessing BIC function,reflected by the significantly lower accuracy of no-go compared to standard condition in GNG,and the significantly lower accuracy and longer reaction time of deviant compared to standard condition in TCO.However,there were no significant differences between deviant and no-go conditions in accuracy.Moreover,functional neuroimaging has demonstrated that the anterior cingulate cortex(ACC)activation was observed for no-go vs.standard contrast in the GNG task,but not in deviant vs.standard contrast in the TCO task,suggesting that ACC involvement is not a necessary component of BIC.Second,ROI analysis of areas that were co-activated in TCO and GNG showed co-activations in the right inferior frontal cortex(triangle and orbital),with the signals in the TCO task significantly higher than those in the GNG task.Conclusions:These findings show that the designed responses to both standard and deviant stimuli in the TCO task,compared to the GNG task,produced a more prominent prefrontal inhibitory processing and extinguished an unnecessary component of ACC activation during BIC.This implies that prefrontal involvement,but not that of ACC,is mandatory for the successful performance of inhibiting prepotent behaviors.展开更多
The P300, an endogenous subcomponent of the event-related potential, is thought to reflect cognitive processes. The event-related potential evoked by the old-new memory recognition task in the oddball paradigm is suit...The P300, an endogenous subcomponent of the event-related potential, is thought to reflect cognitive processes. The event-related potential evoked by the old-new memory recognition task in the oddball paradigm is suitable for examining the neural processes involved in malingered neurocognitive deficits. Forty-four undergraduates were randomly assigned to a simulated malingering group and a truth-telling group, Another 22 patients with head injudes were enrolled as a control group. All participants completed the old-new memory recognition task in the oddball paradigm. The mean P300 amplitude of the simulated malingering group was significantly reduced compared with the truth-telling group （P 〈 0.01）, but was increased compared with the control group （P〈 0.01）. These results revealed that the P300, evoked by the old-new memory recognition task of the oddball paradigm, may be a helpful indicator for determining cognitive malingering.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371042, 31400906 and 31600886)the Key Program of the Higher Education Institutions of Henan Province, China (17AJ90002)
文摘Behavioral adjustment plays an important role in the treatment and relapse of drug addiction. Nonetheless,few studies have examined behavioral adjustment and its plasticity following error commission in methamphetamine（METH） dependence, which is detrimental to human health. Thus, we investigated the behavioral adjustment performance following error commission in long-term METH addicts and how it varied with the application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation（r TMS） of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex（DLPFC）. Twenty-nine male long-term METH addicts（for [ 3 years） were randomly assigned to high-frequency（10 Hz, n = 15） or sham（n = 14） r TMS of the left DLPFC during a two-choice oddball task. Twenty-six age-matched, healthy male adults participated in the two-choice oddball task pretest to establish normal performance for comparison. The results showed that 10 Hz r TMS over the left DLPFC significantly decreased the post-error slowing effect in response times of METH addicts. In addition, the 10 Hz r TMS intervention remarkably reduced the reaction times during post-error trials but not post-correct trials. While the 10 Hz r TMS group showed a more pronounced post-error slowing effect than the healthy participants during the pretest, the posterror slowing effect in the posttest of this sample was similar to that in the healthy participants. These results suggest that high-frequency r TMS over the left DLPFC is a useful protocol for the improvement of behavioral adjustment after error commission in long-term METH addicts.
基金supported by the national natural science foundation of China (NSFC31971018)Sichuan distinguished young scholar fund (2023NSFSC1938).
文摘Background:Behavioral inhibitory control(BIC)depicts a cognitive function of inhibiting inappropriate dominant responses to meet the context requirement.Despite abundant research into neural substrates of BIC during the go/no-go and stop signal tasks,these tasks were consistently shown hard to isolate neural processes of response inhibition,which is of primary interest,from those of response generation.Therefore,it is necessary to explore neural substrates of BIC using the two-choice oddball(TCO)task,whose design of dual responses is thought to produce an inhibition effect free of the confounds of response generation.Objective:The current study aims at depicting neural substrates of performing behavioral inhibitory control in the two-choice oddball task,which designs dual responses to balance response generation.Also,neural substrates of performing BIC during this task are compared with those in the go/no-go task,which designs a motor response in a single condition.Methods:The present study integrated go/no-go(GNG)and TCO tasks into a new Three-Choice BIC paradigm,which consists of stan-dard(75%),deviant(12.5%),and no-go(12.5%)conditions simultaneously.Forty-eight college students participated in this experiment,which required them to respond to standard(frequent)and deviant stimuli by pressing different keys,while inhibiting motor response to no-go stimuli.Conjunction analysis and ROI(region of interest)analysis were adopted to identify the unique neural mechanisms that subserve the processes of BIC.Results:Both tasks are effective in assessing BIC function,reflected by the significantly lower accuracy of no-go compared to standard condition in GNG,and the significantly lower accuracy and longer reaction time of deviant compared to standard condition in TCO.However,there were no significant differences between deviant and no-go conditions in accuracy.Moreover,functional neuroimaging has demonstrated that the anterior cingulate cortex(ACC)activation was observed for no-go vs.standard contrast in the GNG task,but not in deviant vs.standard contrast in the TCO task,suggesting that ACC involvement is not a necessary component of BIC.Second,ROI analysis of areas that were co-activated in TCO and GNG showed co-activations in the right inferior frontal cortex(triangle and orbital),with the signals in the TCO task significantly higher than those in the GNG task.Conclusions:These findings show that the designed responses to both standard and deviant stimuli in the TCO task,compared to the GNG task,produced a more prominent prefrontal inhibitory processing and extinguished an unnecessary component of ACC activation during BIC.This implies that prefrontal involvement,but not that of ACC,is mandatory for the successful performance of inhibiting prepotent behaviors.
文摘The P300, an endogenous subcomponent of the event-related potential, is thought to reflect cognitive processes. The event-related potential evoked by the old-new memory recognition task in the oddball paradigm is suitable for examining the neural processes involved in malingered neurocognitive deficits. Forty-four undergraduates were randomly assigned to a simulated malingering group and a truth-telling group, Another 22 patients with head injudes were enrolled as a control group. All participants completed the old-new memory recognition task in the oddball paradigm. The mean P300 amplitude of the simulated malingering group was significantly reduced compared with the truth-telling group （P 〈 0.01）, but was increased compared with the control group （P〈 0.01）. These results revealed that the P300, evoked by the old-new memory recognition task of the oddball paradigm, may be a helpful indicator for determining cognitive malingering.
