Functional Network Connectivity for Components of Depression-Related Psychological Fragility

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Evans, ID
Sharpley, CF
Bitsika, V
Vessey, KA
Jesulola, E
Agnew, LL
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2024
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Psychological resilience (PR) is known to be inversely associated with depression. While there is a growing body of research examining how depression alters activity across multiple functional neural networks, how differences in PR affect these networks is largely unexplored. This study examines the relationship between PR and functional connectivity in the alpha and beta bands within (and between) eighteen established cortical nodes in the default mode network, the central executive network, and the salience network. Resting-state EEG data from 99 adult participants (32 depressed, 67 non-depressed) were used to measure the correlation between the five factors of PR sourced from the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale and eLORETA-based measures of coherence and phase synchronisation. Distinct functional connectivity patterns were seen across each resilience factor, with a notable absence of overlapping positive results across the depressed and non-depressed samples. These results indicate that depression may modulate how resilience is expressed in terms of fundamental neural activity.

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Brain Sciences

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14

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8

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© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Neurosciences

Applied and developmental psychology

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Evans, ID; Sharpley, CF; Bitsika, V; Vessey, KA; Jesulola, E; Agnew, LL, Functional Network Connectivity for Components of Depression-Related Psychological Fragility, Brain Sciences, 2024, 14 (8), pp. 845

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