Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2019 Jul;44(8):1425-1434. doi: 10.1038/s41386-019-0370-3. Epub 2019 Mar 13.
Contemporary neurocognitive models of drug addiction have associated this condition with changes in interoception -namely, the sensing and processing of body signals that fulfill homeostatic functions relevant for the onset and maintenance of addictive behavior. However, most previous evidence is inconsistent, behaviorally unspecific, and virtually null in terms of direct electrophysiological and multimodal markers. To circumvent these limitations, we conducted the first assessment of the relation between cardiac interoception and smoked cocaine dependence (SCD) in a sample of (a) 25 participants who fulfilled criteria for dependence on such a drug, (b) 22 participants addicted to insufflated clorhidrate cocaine (only for behavioral assessment), and (c) 25 healthy controls matched by age, gender, education, and socioeconomic status. We use a validated heartbeat-detection (HBD) task and measured modulations of the heart-evoked potential (HEP) during interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive learning conditions. We complemented this behavioral and electrophysiological data with offline structural (MRI) and functional connectivity (fMRI) analysis of the main interoceptive hubs. HBD and HEP results convergently showed that SCD subjects presented ongoing psychophysiological measures of enhanced interoceptive accuracy. This pattern was associated with a structural and functional tuning of interoceptive networks (reduced volume and specialized network segregation). Taken together, our findings provide the first evidence of an association between cardiac interoception and smoked cocaine, partially supporting models that propose hyper-interoception as a key aspect of addiction. More generally, our study shows that multimodal assessments of interoception could substantially inform the clinical and neurocognitive characterization of psychophysiological and neurocognitive adaptations triggered by addiction.
当代药物成瘾的神经认知模型将这种情况与内感受变化联系起来——即感知和处理与成瘾行为的发生和维持相关的体内信号。然而,大多数先前的证据在行为上是不一致的、不具体的,而且在直接电生理和多模态标记方面几乎为零。为了规避这些限制,我们在一组参与者中首次评估了心脏内感受与吸食可卡因依赖(SCD)之间的关系:(a)25 名符合此类药物依赖标准的参与者;(b)22 名依赖鼻吸可卡因的参与者(仅用于行为评估);(c)25 名年龄、性别、教育程度和社会经济地位相匹配的健康对照组。我们使用了一项经过验证的心跳检测(HBD)任务,并在准确性和内感受学习条件下测量了心脏诱发电位(HEP)的调制。我们将这种行为和电生理数据与主要内感受中枢的离线结构(MRI)和功能连接(fMRI)分析相结合。HBD 和 HEP 的结果一致表明,SCD 患者表现出持续的内感受准确性增强的心理生理测量。这种模式与内感受网络的结构和功能调整(体积减小和专门的网络分离)有关。总之,我们的研究结果首次提供了心脏内感受与吸食可卡因之间存在关联的证据,部分支持了将过度内感受作为成瘾关键方面的模型。更普遍地说,我们的研究表明,内感受的多模态评估可以为成瘾引起的心理生理和神经认知适应的临床和神经认知特征提供重要信息。
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