Acute stress impairs intentional memory suppression through aberrant prefrontal cortex activation in high trait ruminators

• Jixin Long ^[1] ; Lanxin Peng ^[1] ; Qian Li ^[1] ; Lijing Niu ^[1] ; Haowei Dai ^[1] ; Jiayuan Zhang ^[1] ; Keyin Chen ^[1] ; Tatia MC Lee ^[2] ; Meiyan Huang ^[2] ; Ruibin Zhang ^[1]
  1. [1] Southern Medical University

     Southern Medical University

     China

     
  2. [2] University of Hong Kong

     University of Hong Kong

     RAE de Hong Kong (China)

     
• Localización: International journal of clinical and health psychology, ISSN 1697-2600, Vol. 24, Nº. 2, 2024, págs. 191-200
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100463
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  • Objective Research shows that the effect of acute stress on intentional memory suppression could be modulated by individual differences in psychological traits. However, whether acute stress distinctly affects intentional memory suppression in high trait ruminators, a high at-risk group of stress-related disorders, and the neural correlations, remains unclear.

    Method 55 healthy college students were divided into high and low trait ruminators (HTR and LTR), Following stress manipulation, a Think/No Think task assessed the memory suppression performance. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy was applied to explore the neural correlates. Psychophysiological interaction analyses were used to assess how the functional connectivity between a seed region and another brain region was modulated by tasks during memory suppression, further mediating memory suppression performance and state rumination.

    Results The HTR exhibited poorer memory suppression performance than the LTR under the stress condition. Aberrant activation patterns and task-modulated functional connectivity in the dorsal prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and superior temporal gyrus (STG) were observed only in the HTR during memory suppression under the stress condition. The effect of memory suppression performance on the state rumination of individuals was significantly mediated by the task-modulated functional connectivity between the DLPFC and STG.

    Conclusions The findings could provide insights for prevention or early intervention in the development of stress-related disorders in HTR.

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