ArticleScientific reports2020
Attachment styles modulate neural markers of threat and imagery when engaging in self-criticism.
Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sex difference in neural substrates linking negative body image and disordered eating behaviors.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Attachment Style, Task Difficulty, and Feedback Type: Effects on Cognitive Load.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Understanding Self-Criticism: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Approaches.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2024Review
- The neuroscience of itch in relation to transdiagnostic psychological approaches.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Abnormal intrinsic functional hubs and connectivity in patients with post-stroke depression.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
- A new framework for understanding stress and disease: the developmental model of stress as applied to multiple sclerosis.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Article
- State of the art of the literature on definitions of self-criticism: a meta-review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Depression in adolescence and young adulthood: the difficulty to integrate motivational/emotional systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Exposure to Criticism Modulates Left but Not Right Amygdala Functional Connectivity in Healthy Adolescents: Individual Influences of Perceived and Self-Criticism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Neural and Self-Report Markers of Reassurance: A Generalized Additive Modelling Approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Attachment styles hold important downstream consequences for mental health through their contribution to the emergence of self-criticism. To date, no work has extended our understanding of the influence of attachment styles on self-criticism at a neurobiological level. Herein we investigate the relationship between self-reported attachment styles and neural markers of self-criticism using fMRI. A correlation network analysis revealed lingual gyrus activation during self-criticism, a marker of visual mental imagery, correlated with amygdala activity (threat response). It also identified that secure attachment positively correlated with lingual gyrus activation, whilst avoidant attachment was negatively correlated with lingual gyrus activation. Further, at greater levels of amygdala response, more securely attached individuals showed greater lingual gyrus activation, and more avoidantly attached individuals showed less lingual gyrus activation. Our data provide the first evidence that attachment mechanisms may modulate threat responses and mental imagery when engaging in self-criticism, which have important clinical and broader social implications.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.