PMID- 34270763 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220330 LR - 20220401 IS - 1749-5024 (Electronic) IS - 1749-5016 (Print) IS - 1749-5016 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 2 DP - 2022 Feb 15 TI - Negative overgeneralization is associated with anxiety and mechanisms of pattern completion in peripubertal youth. PG - 231-240 LID - 10.1093/scan/nsab089 [doi] AB - This study examines neural mechanisms of negative overgeneralization, the increased likelihood of generalizing negative information, in peri-puberty. Theories suggest that weak pattern separation [overlapping representations are made distinct, indexed by dentate gyrus/ cornu ammonis (CA)3 hippocampal subfield activation] underlies negative overgeneralization. We alternatively propose that neuro-maturational changes that favor pattern completion (cues reinstate stored representations, indexed by CA1 activation) are modulated by circuitry involved in emotional responding [amygdala, medial prefrontal cortices (mPFC)] to drive negative overgeneralization. Youth (n = 34, 9-14 years) recruited from community and clinic settings participated in an emotional mnemonic similarity task while undergoing magnetic resonance imaging. At study, participants indicated the valence of images; at test, participants made recognition memory judgments. Critical lure stimuli, which were similar to images at study, were presented at test, and errors ('false alarms') to negative relative to neutral stimuli reflected negative overgeneralization. Negative overgeneralization was related to greater and more similar patterns of activation in CA1 and both dorsal mPFC (dmPFC)and ventral mPFC (vmPFC) for negative relative to neutral stimuli. At study, amygdala exhibited greater functional coupling with CA1 and dmPFC during negative items that were later generalized. Negative overgeneralization is rooted in amygdala and mPFC modulation at encoding and pattern completion at retrieval. CI - (c) The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. FAU - McMakin, Dana L AU - McMakin DL AD - Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. AD - Clinical Science Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. AD - Center for Children and Families, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. FAU - Kimbler, Adam AU - Kimbler A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5885-9596 AD - Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. FAU - Tustison, Nicholas J AU - Tustison NJ AD - Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA. FAU - Pettit, Jeremy W AU - Pettit JW AD - Clinical Science Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. AD - Center for Children and Families, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. FAU - Mattfeld, Aaron T AU - Mattfeld AT AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4024-8249 AD - Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. AD - Center for Children and Families, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. LA - eng GR - R01 MH116005/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PL - England TA - Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci JT - Social cognitive and affective neuroscience JID - 101288795 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Amygdala/diagnostic imaging MH - *Anxiety MH - *Anxiety Disorders MH - Humans MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging MH - Memory/physiology MH - Prefrontal Cortex/physiology PMC - PMC8847909 OTO - NOTNLM OT - anxiety OT - fMRI OT - generalization OT - hippocampus OT - mPFC OT - pattern completion EDAT- 2021/07/17 06:00 MHDA- 2022/03/31 06:00 PMCR- 2021/07/16 CRDT- 2021/07/16 17:58 PHST- 2020/12/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/06/01 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/07/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/07/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/03/31 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/07/16 17:58 [entrez] PHST- 2021/07/16 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 6322857 [pii] AID - nsab089 [pii] AID - 10.1093/scan/nsab089 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2022 Feb 15;17(2):231-240. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsab089.