Anxiety and depression: A top‐down, bottom‐up model of circuit function
Open Access
- 2 May 2023
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 1525 (1), 70-87
- https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14997
Abstract
A functional interplay of bottom-up and top-down processing allows an individual to appropriately respond to the dynamic environment around them. These processing modalities can be represented as attractor states using a dynamical systems model of the brain. The transition probability to move from one attractor state to another is dependent on the stability, depth, neuromodulatory tone, and tonic changes in plasticity. However, how does the relationship between these states change in disease states, such as anxiety or depression? We describe bottom-up and top-down processing from Marr's computational-algorithmic-implementation perspective to understand depressive and anxious disease states. We illustrate examples of bottom-up processing as basolateral amygdala signaling and projections and top-down processing as medial prefrontal cortex internal signaling and projections. Understanding these internal processing dynamics can help us better model the multifaceted elements of anxiety and depression.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01‐MH115920 (NIMH), R37‐MH102441 (NIMH))
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