An fMRI investigation of the effects of a negative mood induction procedure on self-reflection

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan T. Denny ◽  
William M. Kelley ◽  
Joseph M. Moran ◽  
Todd F. Heatherton
2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. McCLEERY ◽  
Z. BHAGWAGAR ◽  
K. A. SMITH ◽  
G. M. GOODWIN ◽  
P. J. COWEN

Background. Loss events are the stressors most closely associated with the onset of depressive illnesses. The acute cortisol response to loss has been little studied although it could be an important mediator of the effects of environmental stress on psychological state.Methods. The salivary cortisol response to an established negative mood induction procedure involving music and an imagined bereavement was measured in 30 healthy volunteers.Results. Considerable but transient mood lowering in response to the negative mood induction was associated with a small increase in cortisol output over 30 min.Conclusions. This procedure has some potential as a tool to investigate individual differences in the neuroendocrine response to loss events, but this is limited. There remains a need for laboratory models of relevant psychosocial stressors in mood disorders research.


2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Mongrain ◽  
John Trambakoulos

The “mood-state hypothesis” (Miranda & Persons, 1988) suggests that dysfunctional beliefs are latent in individuals vulnerable to depression until activated by a negative mood. The purpose of the current study was twofold: (a) to validate a new musical mood induction procedure and (b) to test the cognitive reactivity (or changes in the endorsement of dysfunctional beliefs) in individuals hypothesized to be vulnerable to depression (Blatt, Zohar, Quinlan, Zuroff, & Mongrain, 1995). The mood induction procedure was found to be highly effective for both the positive and the negative conditions. Needy and self-critical participants reported increases in the endorsement of dysfunctional attitudes with the depressing music. With the elating music, needy and self-critical participants experiencing an increase in happiness reported lower levels of dysfunctional attitudes. The findings support state-trait models of depressive vulnerability (Zuroff, Blatt, Sanislow, & Bondi, 1999) and further illustrate how positive mood states can ameliorate the report of maladaptive thoughts.


1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 855-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell A. Radenhausen ◽  
James M. Anker

The relationship between depressed mood, reasoning and perceptual performance was examined with 57 undergraduate volunteers. To intensify its effect, Velten's 1968 mood induction procedure was modified by having subjects hear a prerecording of each mood statement prior to saying it themselves. Also, midway through the experiment subjects completed an abbreviated mood induction to ensure continuation of the appropriate mood. Ratings of subjects' mood on a 13-point Likert scale before and after mood induction indicated the mood induction was effective. Subjects completed the reasoning measure of 48 syllogisms, and the perceptual measure involving identification of positive, negative, or neutral stimulus words presented tachistoscopically. “Depressed” individuals showed poorer reasoning performance of marginal significance than “elated” subjects. Mood induction did not appear to affect perceptual performance. Results are discussed in terms of the research on reasoning deficits in depression.


1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Cash ◽  
David C. Rimm ◽  
Robert MacKinnon

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luz Fernández-Aguilar ◽  
Jorge Ricarte ◽  
Laura Ros ◽  
Jose M. Latorre

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 1397-1407 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. J. Robinson ◽  
C. Overstreet ◽  
A. Letkiewicz ◽  
C. Grillon

BackgroundDepression and anxiety disorders (ADs) are highly co-morbid, but the reason for this co-morbidity is unclear. One possibility is that they predispose one another. An informative way to examine interactions between disorders without the confounds present in patient populations is to manipulate the psychological processes thought to underlie the pathological states in healthy individuals. In this study we therefore asked whether a model of the sad mood in depression can enhance psychophysiological responses (startle) to a model of the anxiety in ADs. We predicted that sad mood would increase anxious anxiety-potentiated startle responses.MethodIn a between-subjects design, participants (n=36) completed either a sad mood induction procedure (MIP; n=18) or a neutral MIP (n=18). Startle responses were assessed during short-duration predictable electric shock conditions (fear-potentiated startle) or long-duration unpredictable threat of shock conditions (anxiety-potentiated startle).ResultsInduced sadness enhanced anxiety- but not fear-potentiated startle.ConclusionsThis study provides support for the hypothesis that sadness can increase anxious responding measured by the affective startle response. This, taken together with prior evidence that ADs can contribute to depression, provides initial experimental support for the proposition that ADs and depression are frequently co-morbid because they may be mutually reinforcing.


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