scholarly journals Neural processing of social rejection: The role of schizotypal personality traits

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preethi Premkumar ◽  
Ulrich Ettinger ◽  
Sophie Inchley-Mort ◽  
Alexander Sumich ◽  
Steven C.R. Williams ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allyson L Barnacz ◽  
Amanda Johnson ◽  
Paul Constantino ◽  
Julian Paul Keenan

2010 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. Rapp ◽  
D.E. Mutschler ◽  
B. Wild ◽  
M. Erb ◽  
I. Lengsfeld ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Akram Ghorbali ◽  
Mohammad Reza Shaeiri ◽  
Mohammad Gholami Fesharaki

Objective: Previous research has shown a relationship between schizotypal personality traits and dissociative tendencies. The Inference-Based Approach (IBA) can explain this relationship to some extent. Purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of inferential confusion in relation to dissociative experiences and schizotypal personality traits. Method: A total of 341 students from Shahed University participated in this cross-sectional study. Sampling was conducted randomly by the cluster sampling method. Data were collected using the Inferential Confusion Questionnaire (ICQ-EV), Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief (SPQ-B), and Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES-II). Data were analyzed using SPSS-22 software based on statistical methods including Pearson correlation, Baron and Kenny hierarchical regression and the Sobel test. Results: There were significant positive relationships between dissociative experiences, schizotypal personality traits, and inferential confusion (P < 0.01). Findings showed that inferential confusion mediates the relationship between dissociative experiences and schizotypal personality traits (β = 0.29; P < 0.001). Conclusion: According to the obtained results, the present study, considering role of inferential confusion, succeeded in explaining the relationship between dissociative experiences and schizotypal personality traits to some extent


2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nettle

Keller & Miller (K&M) make a persuasive case for the role of mutation-selection balance in the persistence of such disorders as schizophrenia. However, there is evidence relating illness liability to creativity, which seems to imply balancing selection. I argue for a hybrid position, where schizotypal personality traits can have fitness advantages or disadvantages, with mutational load and neurodevelopmental conditions determining which outcome is observed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1876-1876
Author(s):  
P. Premkumar ◽  
U. Ettinger ◽  
S. Inchley-Mort ◽  
A. Sumich ◽  
S.C. Williams ◽  
...  

A fear of being rejected can cause perceptions of more insecurity and stress in close relationships. Healthy individuals activate the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) when experiencing social rejection, while those who are vulnerable to depression deactivate the dACC presumably in order to down-regulate salience of rejection cues and minimize distress. Schizotypal individuals, characterised by unusual perceptual experiences and/or odd beliefs, are more rejection sensitive than normal. We tested the hypothesis, for the first time, that individuals with high schizotypy also have an altered dACC response to rejection stimuli. Twenty-six healthy individuals, 14 with low schizotypy (LS) and 12 with high schizotypy (HS), viewed depictions of rejection and acceptance and neutral scenes while undergoing functional MRI. Activation maps in LS and HS groups during each image type were compared using SPM5 and their relation to participant mood and subjective ratings of the images was examined. During rejection relative to neutral scenes, LS activated and HS deactivated the bilateral dACC, right superior frontal gyrus and left ventral prefrontal cortex. Across both groups, a temporo-occipito-parieto-cerebellar network was active during rejection, and a left fronto-parietal network during acceptance, relative to neutral scenes, and the bilateral lingual gyrus during rejection relative to acceptance scenes. Our finding of dACC-dorso-ventral PFC activation in LS, but deactivation in HS individuals when perceiving social rejection scenes suggests that HS individuals attach less salience to and distance themselves from such stimuli. This may enable them to cope with their higher-than-normal sensitivity to rejection.


2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preethi Premkumar ◽  
Steven CR Williams ◽  
David Lythgoe ◽  
Christopher Andrew ◽  
Elizabeth Kuipers ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Johnson ◽  
Caroline H. Stroud ◽  
Robert J. Cramer ◽  
James W. Crosby ◽  
Craig E. Henderson ◽  
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