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A Combined Behavioral and Neuroimaging Battery to Test Positive Appraisal Style Theory of Resilience in Longitudinal Studies

View ORCID ProfileMiriam Kampa, Anita Schick, Kenneth Yuen, Alexandra Sebastian, Andrea Chmitorz, Victor Saase, Michèle Wessa, Oliver Tüscher, Raffael Kalisch
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/470435
Miriam Kampa
1Neuroimaging Center (NIC), Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
2Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum (DRZ), Mainz, Germany
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Anita Schick
1Neuroimaging Center (NIC), Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
2Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum (DRZ), Mainz, Germany
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Kenneth Yuen
1Neuroimaging Center (NIC), Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
2Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum (DRZ), Mainz, Germany
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Alexandra Sebastian
2Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum (DRZ), Mainz, Germany
3Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
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Andrea Chmitorz
2Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum (DRZ), Mainz, Germany
3Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
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Victor Saase
1Neuroimaging Center (NIC), Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
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Michèle Wessa
2Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum (DRZ), Mainz, Germany
4Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Oliver Tüscher
2Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum (DRZ), Mainz, Germany
3Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
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Raffael Kalisch
1Neuroimaging Center (NIC), Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
2Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum (DRZ), Mainz, Germany
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  • For correspondence: miriam.kampa@gmail.com rkalisch@uni-mainz.de
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Abstract

Resilience is the maintenance or rapid recovery of mental health during and after stressor exposure. It is becoming increasingly clear that resilience results from a complex and dynamic process of adaptation to stressors involving the biological, psychological and social levels. Positive appraisal style theory of resilience (PASTOR) claims that the common final pathway to maintained mental health lies in the non-negative (non-catastrophizing, non-pessimistic) appraisal of potential stressors, permitting the organism to fine-tune stress responses to optimal levels, thus avoiding unnecessary stress, inefficient deployment of resources and concomitant deleterious allostatic load effects. Successful adaptation consists in developing or strengthening a positive appraisal style. Another key element of PASTOR is that a positive appraisal style is strongly determined by the efficacy and efficiency of the neural and cognitive processes that underlie positive stressor appraisal. We here present a combined behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) battery designed to assess such processes repeatedly in longitudinal settings. The battery includes tests of stress reactivity and recovery, reward sensitivity, safety learning and memory in the context of fear conditioning and extinction, volitional situation-focused reappraisal, volitional self-focused reappraisal, and emotional interference inhibition, along with structural MRI and resting-state MRI scans. A detailed description of the battery methods is provided. The feasibility of the battery was successfully tested in N=55 healthy subjects; group results of the individual tasks largely replicate existing literature.

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A Combined Behavioral and Neuroimaging Battery to Test Positive Appraisal Style Theory of Resilience in Longitudinal Studies
Miriam Kampa, Anita Schick, Kenneth Yuen, Alexandra Sebastian, Andrea Chmitorz, Victor Saase, Michèle Wessa, Oliver Tüscher, Raffael Kalisch
bioRxiv 470435; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/470435
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A Combined Behavioral and Neuroimaging Battery to Test Positive Appraisal Style Theory of Resilience in Longitudinal Studies
Miriam Kampa, Anita Schick, Kenneth Yuen, Alexandra Sebastian, Andrea Chmitorz, Victor Saase, Michèle Wessa, Oliver Tüscher, Raffael Kalisch
bioRxiv 470435; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/470435

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