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ArticleClinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology2018

Dysfunctional Social Reinforcement Processing in Disruptive Behavior Disorders: An Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.

Soonjo Hwang, Harma Meffert, Michelle R VanTieghem, Stephen Sinclair, Susan Y Bookheimer, Brigette Vaughan, R J R Blair

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Article in Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Effectiveness of Stimulant Medications on Disruptive Behavior and Mood Problems in Young Children.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Soonjo HwangDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
Harma MeffertCenter for Neurobehavioral Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, NE, USA.
Michelle R VanTieghemDepartment of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Stephen SinclairDepartment of Health and Human Services, Section on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Susan Y BookheimerUniversity of California and Brain Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Brigette VaughanDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
R J R BlairCenter for Neurobehavioral Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, NE, USA.
Boys Town · USUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center · USColumbia University · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Tracking and Evaluation CoreU54GM115458 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI ESTABROOKS, PAUL · 2016 to 2025
$42.8M
Emotional Dysfunction and Childhood Behavioral DisturbanceZIAMH002860 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI BLAIR, JAMES R · 2009 to 2016
$9.5M
Acute threat and frustrative non-reward components of irritability and reactive aggressionK22MH109558 · NIMH · FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME · PI BLAIR, JAMES · 2016 to 2018
$972k
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002860NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM115458NIMH NIH HHS K22 MH109558
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivePrior functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) work has revealed that children/adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) show dysfunctional reward/non-reward processing of non-social reinforcements in the context of instrumental learning tasks. Neural responsiveness to

methodsTwenty-nine healthy children/adolescents and 19 children/adolescents with DBDs performed the fMRI social/non-social reinforcement learning task. Participants responded to random fractal image stimuli and received social and non-social rewards/non-rewards according to their accuracy.

resultsChildren/adolescents with DBDs showed significantly reduced responses within the caudate and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) to non-social (financial) rewards and social non-rewards (the distress of others). Connectivity analyses revealed that children/adolescents with DBDs have decreased positive functional connectivity between the ventral striatum (VST) and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) seeds and the lateral frontal cortex in response to reward relative to non-reward, irrespective of its sociality. In addition, they showed decreased positive connectivity between the vmPFC seed and the amygdala in response to non-reward relative to reward.

conclusionThese data indicate compromised reinforcement processing of both non-social rewards and social non-rewards in children/adolescents with DBDs within core regions for instrumental learning and reinforcement-based decision- making (caudate and PCC). In addition, children/adolescents with DBDs show dysfunctional interactions between the VST, vmPFC, and lateral frontal cortex in response to rewarded instrumental actions potentially reflecting disruptions in attention to rewarded stimuli.

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CaudateDisruptive behavior disorderPosterior cingulate cortexSocial rewardVentral striatumVentro-medial prefrontal cortex

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PMCPMC6245284
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