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Increased functional connectivity within mesocortical networks in open people.

Abstract：

:Openness is a personality trait reflecting absorption in sensory experience, preference for novelty, and creativity, and is thus considered a driving force of human evolution. At the brain level, a relation between openness and dopaminergic circuits has been proposed, although evidence to support this hypothesis is lacking. Recent behavioral research has also found that people with mania, a psychopathological condition linked to dopaminergic dysfunctions, may display high levels of openness. However, whether openness is related to dopaminergic circuits has not been determined thus far. We addressed this issue via three functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments in n=46 healthy volunteers. In the first experiment participants lied at rest in the scanner while in the other two experiments they performed active tasks that included the presentation of pleasant odors and pictures of food. Individual differences in openness and other personality traits were assessed via the NEO-PI-R questionnaire (NEO-Personality Inventory-Revised), a widely employed measure of the five-factor model personality traits. Correlation between fMRI and personality data was analyzed via state-of-art methods assessing resting-state and task-related functional connectivity within specific brain networks. Openness was positively associated with the functional connectivity between the right substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area, the major source of dopaminergic inputs in the brain, and the ipsilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), a key region in encoding, maintaining, and updating information that is relevant for adaptive behaviors. Of note, the same connectivity pattern was consistently found across all of the three fMRI experiments. Given the critical role of dopaminergic signal in gating information in DLPFC, the increased functional connectivity within mesocortical networks in open people may explain why these individuals display a wide "mental permeability" to salient stimuli and an increased absorption in sensory experience.

journal_name

Neuroimage

journal_title

NeuroImage

authors

Passamonti L,Terracciano A,Riccelli R,Donzuso G,Cerasa A,Vaccaro M,Novellino F,Fera F,Quattrone A

doi

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.09.017

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-01-01 00:00:00

pages

301-9

eissn

1053-8119

issn

1095-9572

pii

S1053-8119(14)00759-9

journal_volume

104

pub_type

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Increased functional connectivity within mesocortical networks in open people.