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Abstract
Purpose
While severely distressing events are known to affect mental health adversely, some survivors develop only short-lived or no psychiatric symptoms in the aftermath of a disaster. In the WTC Health Program General Responder Cohort (WTCHP GRC) we examined whether social support was protective against the development of depression or anxiety symptoms after the 9/11 WTC attacks and explored in a subsample whether trait resilience moderated this relationship.

Methods
We analyzed data from 14,033 traditional and 13,478 non-traditional responders who attended at least three periodic health monitoring visits between 2002 and 2019. Linear mixed-effects models were used to examine depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9; PHQ-9) and anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder screener; GAD-7) scores. In a subsample of 812 participants, we also assessed if the association between social support and symptoms was moderated by an individual's trait resilience level (Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, CD-RISC).

Results
For both traditional and non-traditional responders, perceived social support around 9/11 was associated with lower levels of depressive (β = − 0.24, S.E. = 0.017, z = − 14.29, p < 0.001) and anxiety symptoms (β = − 0.17, S. E. = 0.016, z = − 10.48, p < 0.001). Trait resilience scores were higher in responders with at least one source of social support during the aftermath of 9/11 compared to those without (mean 71.56, SD 21.58 vs mean 76.64, SD 17.06; β = 5.08, S.E. = 0.36, p < 0.001). Trait resilience moderated the association between social support and depressive (p < 0.001) and anxiety trajectories (p < 0.001) for traditional responders.

Conclusion
Our findings suggest that perceived social support around a severely distressing event may have long-term protective effects on symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Altres ajuts: The study received grant 08-MNP-007 from the French government Agence Nationale de la Recherche and grant AOM-07-118 (Influence of Cannabis Psychopathological Outcome in At-risk Mental State [ICAAR study]) from the French Health Ministry Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique. The Sainte-Anne Hospital Center promoted the study. Dr Kempton was supported by a Medical Research Council Fellowship grant MR/J008915/1. Dr Pantelis was supported by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Principal Research Fellowship (ID: 628386 & 1105825) and by grant R246-2016-3237 from the Lundbeck Foundation. Dr Modinos was supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship #202397/Z/16/Z, jointly funded by The Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society. ; This case-control study analyzes emotion recognition and neuroimaging data as well as clinical and functional outcomes for individuals at risk for transition to psychosis and those without psychiatric or neurological disorders. Is altered emotion recognition associated with adverse clinical and functional outcomes in people at clinical high risk for psychosis? In this case-control study of 213 individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis and 52 healthy participants, abnormalities in the recognition of negative emotion at baseline were associated with neuroanatomical alterations in the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus and with a low level of functioning at a 12-month follow-up. This study found that, in people with high risk for developing psychosis, functional outcomes are associated with the degree to which their emotion processing is altered. The development of adverse clinical outcomes in patients with psychosis has been associated with behavioral and neuroanatomical deficits related to emotion processing. However, the association between alterations in brain regions subserving emotion processing and clinical outcomes remains unclear. To examine the association between alterations in emotion processing and regional gray matter volumes ...