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01-10-2019 | Original Paper

Cerebral blood flow responses during prosaccade and antisaccade preparation in major depression

Authors: Alexandra Hoffmann, Ulrich Ettinger, Casandra Montoro, Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso, Stefan Duschek

Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | Issue 7/2019

Abstract

While impairments in executive functions have been well established in major depressive disorder (MDD), specific deficits in proactive control have scarcely been studied so far. Proactive control refers to cognitive processes during anticipation of a behaviorally relevant event that facilitate readiness to react. In this study, cerebral blood flow responses were investigated in MDD patients during a precued antisaccade task requiring preparatory attention and proactive inhibition. Using functional transcranial Doppler sonography, blood flow velocities in the middle cerebral arteries of both hemispheres were recorded in 40 MDD patients and 40 healthy controls. In the task, a target appeared left or right of the fixation point 5 s after a cuing stimulus; subjects had to move their gaze to the target (prosaccade) or its mirror image position (antisaccade). Video-based eye-tracking was applied for ocular recording. A right dominant blood flow increase arose during prosaccade and antisaccade preparation, which was smaller in MDD patients than controls. Patients exhibited a higher error rate than controls for antisaccades but not prosaccades. The smaller blood flow response may reflect blunted anticipatory activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal and inferior parietal cortices in MDD. The patients’ increased antisaccade error rate suggests deficient inhibitory control. The findings support the notion of impairments in proactive control in MDD, which are clinically relevant as they may contribute to the deficits in cognition and behavioral regulation that characterize the disorder.

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Values at the beginning of the task period (time 0) were slightly higher in MDD patients than controls, which may be ascribed to spontaneous fluctuations of flow velocities at baseline.

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Title: Cerebral blood flow responses during prosaccade and antisaccade preparation in major depression
Authors: Alexandra Hoffmann
Ulrich Ettinger
Casandra Montoro
Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso
Stefan Duschek
Publication date: 01-10-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 0940-1334
Electronic ISSN: 1433-8491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-018-0956-5

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