ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2016
Lower neighborhood quality in adolescence predicts higher mesolimbic sensitivity to reward anticipation in adulthood.
Article in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- How childhood adversity affects components of decision making.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Adverse Life Experiences and Brain Function: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status and adolescent brain responses to peer feedback: Testing relationships with negative and positive affect assessed outside of the lab.Development and psychopathology · 2026Article
- Early parenting is associated with the development of neural reward responsiveness from childhood through adolescence.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Early Life Stress Affects Human Decision Making by Increasing Expectations of Volatility.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Functional connectivity of youth in family-like residential care in Japan: Impact of reactive attachment disorder and disinhibited social engagement disorder symptoms.Neuroimage. Reports · 2026Article
- Residence in Communities With Higher Violent Crimes Associated With Lower Reward-related Brain Function.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Article
- Associations Between Neighborhood Resources and Youths' Response to Reward Omission in a Task Modeling Negatively Biased Environments.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Article
- How does the macroenvironment influence brain and behaviour-a review of current status and future perspectives.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Review
- Relations Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Electrocortical Reward Processing in Youth at High and Low Risk for Depression.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- From developmental neuroscience to policy: A novel framework based on participatory research.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
- Early adversity and sexual diversity: the importance of self-reported and neurobiological sexual reward sensitivity.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Article
- How does the macroenvironment influence brain and behaviour - a review of current status and future perspectives.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Mediating role of obesity on the association between disadvantaged neighborhoods and intracortical myelination.Research square · 2023Article
- Neighborhood disadvantage, race/ethnicity and neural sensitivity to social threat and reward among adolescents.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- The Mechanism of Socioeconomic Status Effects on Cognition.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Residence in High-Crime Neighborhoods Moderates the Association Between Interleukin 6 and Social and Nonsocial Reward Brain Responses.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Life history theory suggests that adult reward sensitivity should be best explained by childhood, but not current, socioeconomic conditions. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, 83 participants from a larger longitudinal sample completed the monetary incentive delay (MID) task in adulthood (∼25 years old). Parent-reports of neighborhood quality and parental SES were collected when participants were 13 years of age. Current income level was collected concurrently with scanning. Lower adolescent neighborhood quality, but neither lower current income nor parental SES, was associated with heightened sensitivity to the anticipation of monetary gain in putative mesolimbic reward areas. Lower adolescent neighborhood quality was also associated with heightened sensitivity to the anticipation of monetary loss activation in visuo-motor areas. Lower current income was associated with heightened sensitivity to anticipated loss in occipital areas and the operculum. We tested whether externalizing behaviors in childhood or adulthood could better account for neighborhood quality findings, but they did not. Findings suggest that neighborhood ecology in adolescence is associated with greater neural reward sensitivity in adulthood above the influence of parental SES or current income and not mediated through impulsivity and externalizing behaviors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.