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ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2025

Aberrant neural event segmentation during a continuous social narrative in trauma-exposed older adolescents and young adults.

Steven J Granger, Elizabeth A Olson, Sylvie J Weinstein, Isabelle R Vratimos, Brian Lynch, Boyu Ren, Isabelle M Rosso

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Steven J GrangerCenter for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA. sgranger@mclean.harvard.edu.
Elizabeth A OlsonCenter for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
Sylvie J WeinsteinCenter for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
Isabelle R VratimosCenter for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
Brian LynchCenter for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
Boyu RenDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Isabelle M RossoCenter for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA. irosso@hms.harvard.edu.

Funding

Project 4_Bruchas : Circuit-level Approaches for Dissecting Approach/Avoidance Behaviors Mediated by Nociceptin Systems in MiceP50MH119467 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI FRANK, MICHAEL J. · 2020 to 2024
$15.9M
SPARED CenterP50MH115874 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI ROSSO, ISABELLE M · 2019 to 2023
$13.7M
Multimodal imaging of hippocampal-cortical networks and mechanisms of trauma-related intrusionsR01MH120400 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI ROSSO, ISABELLE M · 2019 to 2023
$3.3M
Progressive social withdrawal in trauma-exposed older adolescents and young adults: neurocircuitry predictorsR01MH125852 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI ROSSO, ISABELLE M · 2021 to 2025
$2.4M
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH115874NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH119467NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH120400NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH125852
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Abstract

Post-traumatic stress and major depressive disorders are associated with "overgeneral" autobiographical memory, or impaired recall of specific life events. Interpersonal trauma exposure, a risk factor for both conditions, may influence how symptomatic trauma-exposed (TE) individuals segment everyday events. The ability to parse experience into units (event segmentation) supports memory. Neural state transitions occur within a cortical hierarchy and play a key role in event segmentation, with regions like the occipital cortex, angular gyrus, and striatum involved in parsing event structure. We examined whether interpersonal trauma exposure was associated with alterations in the cortical hierarchy and striatal activity at neural state transitions in symptomatic TE versus healthy control (HC) individuals. Fifty older adolescents and young adults (29 TE, 21 HC) viewed the film "Partly Cloudy" during functional magnetic resonance imaging. A greedy-state boundary search algorithm assessed the optimal number of events, quality, and segmentation agreement of neural state transitions in the occipital cortex and angular gyrus. Striatal (nucleus accumbens, caudate, and putamen) activity was assessed at occipital and angular gyrus-evoked state transitions. Compared to HCs, TE participants displayed less occipital and greater angular gyrus-evoked optimal number of neural state transitions. TE participants also displayed lower quality of neural state segmentation solutions in occipital and angular cortices compared to HCs. Additionally, TE participants had less putamen activity at angular gyrus-evoked state transitions than HCs. This investigation provides neurobiological insights into aberrant event segmentation in symptomatic TE individuals, shedding light on mechanisms influencing overgeneral memory in trauma-related disorders.

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Corpus StriatumMemory, EpisodicPsychological TraumaStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAdolescentAdultBrain MappingFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNarrationOccipital LobeYoung AdultEvent segmentationFunctional magnetic resonance imagingInterpersonal traumaMemoryPerception

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PMID39789397
PMCPMC12243063

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