| Reference : Enhanced cardiac perception predicts impaired performance in the Iowa Gambling Task i... |
| Scientific journals : Article | |||
| Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Treatment & clinical psychology | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/12372 | |||
| Enhanced cardiac perception predicts impaired performance in the Iowa Gambling Task in patients with panic disorder | |
| English | |
| Wölk, Julian [> >] | |
| Sütterlin, Stefan [> >] | |
| Koch, Stefan [> >] | |
Vögele, Claus  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >] | |
| Schulz, Stefan M. [> >] | |
| 2014 | |
| Brain and Behavior | |
| Wiley | |
| 4 | |
| 2 | |
| 238-246 | |
| Yes (verified by ORBilu) | |
| International | |
| 2162-3279 | |
| [en] cardiac perception ; decision making ; interoception ; Iowa Gambling Task ; panic disorder ; somatic marker hypothesis | |
| [en] Objective: Somatic marker theory predicts that somatic cues serve intuitive decision- making; however, cardiovascular symptoms are threat cues for patients with panic disorder (PD). Therefore, enhanced cardiac perception may aid intuitive decision-making only in healthy individuals, but impair intuitive decision-making in PD patients.
Methods: PD patients and age- and sex-matched volunteers without a psychiatric diagnosis (n = 17, respectively) completed the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) as a measure of intuitive decision-making. Inter-individual differences in cardiac perception were assessed with a common mental tracking task. Results: In line with our hypothesis, we found a pattern of opposing associations (Fisher’s Z=1.78, p=.04) of high cardiac perception with improved IGT-performance in matched control-participants (r = .36, n = 14) but impaired IGT-performance in PD patients (r = -.38, n = 13). Conclusion: Interoceptive skills, typically assumed to aid intuitive decision-making, can have the opposite effect in PD patients who experience interoceptive cues as threatening, and tend to avoid them. This may explain why PD patients frequently have problems with decision-making in everyday life. Screening of cardiac perception may help identifying patients who benefit from specifically tailored interventions. | |
| Researchers ; Professionals ; Students | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/12372 | |
| 10.1002/brb3.206 |
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