TY - JOUR
T1 - Author's response to commentary 'Depressive symptomatology should be systematically controlled for in neuroticism research'
AU - Everaerd, Daphne Sophie
AU - Klumpers, Floris
AU - van Wingen, Guido
AU - Tendolkar, Indira
AU - Fernández, Guillén
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In the commentary by Bianchi and Laurent (2015), the authors suggest that depressive symptoms should be controlled for when examining the neurobiology associated with trait neuroticism. We fully agree that the relation between neuroticism and symptoms of stress-related psychiatric disorders, such as major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders, should not be overlooked when studying its neural correlates. However, instead of treating this relation as a potential confound, we consider it to be of particular importance to include depressive symptoms when studying the influence of acute psychological stress on neural mechanisms related to trait neuroticism. Regardless of this principal disagreement, we also confirmed empirically that depression scores did not affect our voxel-wise results. In sum, our results were not confounded by depression scores and more importantly, our study question and design do not warrant including depression scores in our analysis
AB - In the commentary by Bianchi and Laurent (2015), the authors suggest that depressive symptoms should be controlled for when examining the neurobiology associated with trait neuroticism. We fully agree that the relation between neuroticism and symptoms of stress-related psychiatric disorders, such as major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders, should not be overlooked when studying its neural correlates. However, instead of treating this relation as a potential confound, we consider it to be of particular importance to include depressive symptoms when studying the influence of acute psychological stress on neural mechanisms related to trait neuroticism. Regardless of this principal disagreement, we also confirmed empirically that depression scores did not affect our voxel-wise results. In sum, our results were not confounded by depression scores and more importantly, our study question and design do not warrant including depression scores in our analysis
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.039
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.039
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 26334948
SN - 1053-8119
VL - 125
SP - 1101
EP - 1102
JO - NEUROIMAGE
JF - NEUROIMAGE
ER -