Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on neural responses to reward: A quasi-experiment

C Freeman, L Carpentier, A Weinberg - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has been a prolonged period of stress due to social
isolation, illness, death, and other major life disruptions. Neural reward sensitivity, essential …

Neural response to social but not monetary reward predicts increases in depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic

C Freeman, L Panier, J Schaffer… - Psychophysiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence of depressive symptoms has increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic,
especially among those with greater pandemic‐related stress exposure; however, not all …

The interplay of stress and electrocortical reactivity to reward in the prospective prediction of depression symptoms during COVID-19

C Feurer, M Granros, AE Calentino, JH Suor… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rates of depression have increased during the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic, potentially due to associated stress exposure. However, it remains unclear which …

Blunted neural response to errors prospectively predicts increased symptoms of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Sandre, I Banica, A Weinberg - Emotion, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Symptoms of depression have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, possibly due to
increases in both chronic and episodic stress exposure. Yet these increases are being …

[HTML][HTML] Coping under stress: Prefrontal control predicts stress burden during the COVID-19 crisis

M Monninger, TM Pollok, PM Aggensteiner… - European …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has confronted millions of people around
the world with an unprecedented stressor, affecting physical and mental health …

Neurophysiological responses to interpersonal emotional images prospectively predict the impact of COVID-19 pandemic–related stress on internalizing symptoms

L Dickey, M West, S Pegg, H Green… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Exposure to stressful events related to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic
has been associated with increases in the prevalence of depression and anxiety, raising …

Coping strategies, neural structure, and depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study in a naturalistic sample spanning clinical …

B Holt-Gosselin, L Tozzi, CA Ramirez, IH Gotlib… - … Psychiatry Global Open …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Although the COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to worsen anxiety and
depression symptoms, we do not understand which behavioral and neural factors may …

The paradoxical effects of chronic stress on avoidance: a role for amygdala-dorsomedial prefrontal cortex dialogue

IS Grunfeld, E Likhtik - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic stress has been a pervasive factor during the new-normal of the COVID era.
Notably, although moderate stress is critical for adaptation in a changing world, prolonged …

Acute stress reduces reward-related neural activity: Evidence from the reward positivity

K Burani, A Gallyer, J Ryan, C Jordan, T Joiner… - Stress, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Stress and blunted reward processing are risk factors for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
The experience of acute stress reduces fMRI correlates of reward-related neural activity; …

Stronger connectivity and higher extraversion protect against stress-related deterioration of cognitive functions

J Rogala, J Dreszer, U Malinowska, M Waligóra… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Here we attempted to define the relationship between: EEG activity, personality and coping
during lockdown. We were in a unique situation since the COVID-19 outbreak interrupted …