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Altered reward processing following an acute social stressor in adolescents.
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- Decision-making and cognitive control in adolescent suicidal behaviors: a qualitative systematic review of the literature.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Blunted Reward Responsiveness During Social Feedback: Associations with Peer Victimization and Anhedonia in Socially Anxious Adolescents.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
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- Default Mode and Frontoparietal Network Dynamics: Associations with Familial Risk for Depression and Stress Sensitivity.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2023Article
- Neural sensitivity to peer feedback and depression symptoms in adolescents: a 2-year multiwave longitudinal study.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Article
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- Perceived stress influences anhedonia and social functioning in a community sample enriched for psychosis-risk.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Article
- Reward Functioning Abnormalities in Adolescents at High Familial Risk for Depressive Disorders.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2021Article
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Abstract
Altered reward processing is a transdiagnostic factor implicated in a wide range of psychiatric disorders. While prior animal and adult research has shown that stress contributes to reward dysfunction, less is known about how stress impacts reward processing in youth. Towards addressing this gap, the present study probed neural activation associated with reward processing following an acute stressor. Healthy adolescents (n = 40) completed a clinical assessment, and fMRI data were acquired while participants completed a monetary guessing task under a no-stress condition and then under a stress condition. Based on prior literature, analyses focused on a priori defined regions-of-interest, specifically the striatum (win trials) and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex [dACC] and insula (loss trials). Two main findings emerged. First, reward-related neural activation (i.e., striatum) was blunted in the stress relative to the no-stress condition. Second, the stress condition also contributed to blunted neural response following reward in loss-related regions (i.e., dACC, anterior insula); however, there were no changes in loss sensitivity. These results highlight the importance of conceptualizing neural vulnerability within the presence of stress, as this may clarify risk for mental disorders during a critical period of development.
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