PMID- 37051904 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231216 LR - 20231216 IS - 1469-8978 (Electronic) IS - 0033-2917 (Linking) VI - 53 IP - 15 DP - 2023 Nov TI - Associations between aberrant working memory-related neural activity and cognitive impairments in somatically healthy, remitted patients with mood disorders. PG - 7203-7213 LID - 10.1017/S0033291723000715 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Persistent cognitive deficits are prevalent in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and unipolar disorder (UD), but treatments effectively targeting cognition in these mood disorders are lacking. This is partly due to poor insight into the neuronal underpinnings of cognitive deficits. METHODS: The aim of this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was to investigate the neuronal underpinnings of working memory (WM)-related deficits in somatically healthy, remitted patients with BD or UD (n = 66) with cognitive and functional impairments compared to 38 healthy controls (HC). The participants underwent neuropsychological testing and fMRI, while performing a visuospatial and a verbal N-back WM paradigm. RESULTS: Relative to HC, patients exhibited hypo-activity across dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as well as frontal and parietal nodes of the cognitive control network (CCN) and hyper-activity in left orbitofrontal cortex within the default mode network (DMN) during both visuospatial and verbal WM performance. Verbal WM-related response in the left posterior superior frontal gyrus (SFG) within CCN was lower in patients and correlated positively with out-of-scanner executive function performance across all participants. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that cognitive impairments across BD and UD are associated with insufficient recruitment of task-relevant regions in the CCN and down-regulation of task-irrelevant orbitofrontal activity within the DMN during task performance. Specifically, a lower recruitment of the left posterior SFG within CCN during verbal WM was associated with lower cognitive performance. FAU - Macoveanu, Julian AU - Macoveanu J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-9477 AD - Neurocognition and Emotion in Affective Disorders (NEAD) Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, and Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Petersen, Jeff Zarp AU - Petersen JZ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3415-8098 AD - Neurocognition and Emotion in Affective Disorders (NEAD) Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, and Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Fisher, Patrick M AU - Fisher PM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8115-0611 AD - Neurobiology Research Unit and Center for Integrated Molecular Imaging, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Kessing, Lars Vedel AU - Kessing LV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9377-9436 AD - Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. AD - Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre (CADIC), Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Knudsen, Gitte Moos AU - Knudsen GM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1508-6866 AD - Neurobiology Research Unit and Center for Integrated Molecular Imaging, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. AD - Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Miskowiak, Kamilla Woznica AU - Miskowiak KW AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2572-1384 AD - Neurocognition and Emotion in Affective Disorders (NEAD) Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, and Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. AD - Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre (CADIC), Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230413 PL - England TA - Psychol Med JT - Psychological medicine JID - 1254142 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Mood Disorders/complications MH - Memory, Short-Term/physiology MH - *Bipolar Disorder MH - *Cognitive Dysfunction MH - Executive Function MH - Memory Disorders/complications MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods MH - Neuropsychological Tests OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bipolar disorder OT - cognitive impairment OT - depression OT - fMRI EDAT- 2023/04/14 06:00 MHDA- 2023/12/17 09:42 CRDT- 2023/04/13 05:02 PHST- 2023/12/17 09:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/04/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/04/13 05:02 [entrez] AID - S0033291723000715 [pii] AID - 10.1017/S0033291723000715 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Psychol Med. 2023 Nov;53(15):7203-7213. doi: 10.1017/S0033291723000715. Epub 2023 Apr 13.