Author's response to commentary 'Depressive symptomatology should be systematically controlled for in neuroticism research'
Publication year
2016Number of pages
2 p.
Source
NeuroImage, 125, (2016), pp. 1101-1102ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Organization
PI Group Memory & Emotion
Psychiatry
PI Group Affective Neuroscience
SW OZ BSI KLP
Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal title
NeuroImage
Volume
vol. 125
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 1101
Page end
p. 1102
Subject
130 000 Cognitive Neurology & Memory; 230 Affective Neuroscience; Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment; Radboudumc 13: Stress-related disorders DCMN: Donders Center for Medical NeuroscienceAbstract
In the commentary by Bianchi and Laurent (2015), the authors suggest that depressive symptoms should be controlled for when examining the neurobiology associated with trait neuroticism. We fully agree that the relation between neuroticism and symptoms of stress-related psychiatric disorders, such as major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders, should not be overlooked when studying its neural correlates. However, instead of treating this relation as a potential confound, we consider it to be of particular importance to include depressive symptoms when studying the influence of acute psychological stress on neural mechanisms related to trait neuroticism. Regardless of this principal disagreement, we also confirmed empirically that depression scores did not affect our voxel-wise results. In sum, our results were not confounded by depression scores and more importantly, our study question and design do not warrant including depression scores in our analysis.
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