Title Neurovisceral integration in the executive control network: A resting state analysis.
Author McIntosh, Roger C; Hoshi, Rosangela; Nomi, Jason S; Di Bello, Maria; Goodman, Zachary T; Kornfeld, Salome; Uddin, Lucina Q; Ottaviani, Cristina
Journal Biol Psychol Publication Year/Month 2020-Nov
PMID 33137415 PMCID -N/A-
Affiliation + expend 1.Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, United States. Electronic address: r.mcintosh@miami.edu.

Neurovisceral integration models emphasize the role of frontal lobes in cognitive, behavioral, and emotional regulation. Two candidate hubs for the regulation of cardio-autonomic control, anxiety, and executive attention are the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and middle frontal gyrus (MFG). Two-hundred and seventy-one adults (62.9 % female) aged 18-85 years were selected from the NKI-Rockland Sample. Resting state functional imaging data was preprocessed, and seeds extracted from bilateral DLPFC and MFG to test 4 regression models predicting connectivity with high frequency HRV (HF-HRV), trait anxiety (TA), and reaction time on an executive attention task. After controlling for age, sex, body mass index and head motion, the right DLPFC-MFG seed pair provided strongest support for neurovisceral integration indexed by HF-HRV, low TA and shorter reaction time on the attention network task. This hemispheric effect may underlie the inhibitory role of right PFC in the regulation of cardio-autonomic function, emotion, and executive attention.

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