論文

査読有り 国際誌
2015年5月

Fear Conditioning Induced by Interpersonal Conflicts in Healthy Individuals

PLOS ONE
  • Mitsuhiro Tada
  • ,
  • Hiroyuki Uchida
  • ,
  • Takaki Maeda
  • ,
  • Mika Konishi
  • ,
  • Satoshi Umeda
  • ,
  • Yuri Terasawa
  • ,
  • Shinichiro Nakajima
  • ,
  • Masaru Mimura
  • ,
  • Tomoyuki Miyazaki
  • ,
  • Takuya Takahashi

10
5
開始ページ
e0125729
終了ページ
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0125729
出版者・発行元
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE

Psychophysiological markers have been focused to investigate the psychopathology of psychiatric disorders and personality subtypes. In order to understand neurobiological mechanisms underlying these conditions, fear-conditioning model has been widely used. However, simple aversive stimuli are too simplistic to understand mechanisms because most patients with psychiatric disorders are affected by social stressors. The objective of this study was to test the feasibility of a newly-designed conditioning experiment using a stimulus to cause interpersonal conflicts and examine associations between personality traits and response to that stimulus. Twenty-nine healthy individuals underwent the fear conditioning and extinction experiments in response to three types of stimuli: a simple aversive sound, disgusting pictures, and pictures of an actors' face with unpleasant verbal messages that were designed to cause interpersonal conflicts. Conditioned response was quantified by the skin conductance response (SCR). Correlations between the SCR changes, and personality traits measured by the Zanarini Rating Scale for Borderline Personality Disorder (ZAN-BPD) and Revised NEO Personality Inventory were explored. The interpersonal conflict stimulus resulted in successful conditioning, which was subsequently extinguished, in a similar manner as the other two stimuli. Moreover, a greater degree of conditioned response to the interpersonal conflict stimulus correlated with a higher ZAN-BPD total score. Fear conditioning and extinction can be successfully achieved, using interpersonal conflicts as a stimulus. Given that conditioned fear caused by the interpersonal conflicts is likely associated with borderline personality traits, this paradigm could contribute to further understanding of underlying mechanisms of interpersonal fear implicated in borderline personality disorder.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125729
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25978817
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4433209
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000354916100034&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0125729
  • ISSN : 1932-6203
  • PubMed ID : 25978817
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC4433209
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000354916100034

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