SynthesisNeuropsychology review2021
A Systematic Review of the Positive Valence System in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cognitive rehabilitation in people with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review of emerging virtual reality-based approaches.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Pooled it
- Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Pooled it
- Habenula Alterations in Resting-State Functional Connectivity Among Autistic Individuals.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Autism-associated learning patterns show reduced credit assignment to outcome-irrelevant features.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Advancing scientific understanding of the drive to socially engage: from broad constructs to transdiagnostic 'building blocks'.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Parsing the heterogeneity of social motivation in autism.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Brain Cortical Volume and Thickness Abnormalities in Autism Spectrum Disorder Aged 2-4 Years: a Structural MRI Comparative Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorders: a literature review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Insula uses overlapping codes for emotion in self and others.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Reduced effects of social feedback on learning in Turner syndrome.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Application of Multimodal MRI in the Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Processing of social and monetary rewards in autism spectrum disorders.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2023Article
- Mood and anxiety disorders within the Research Domain Criteria framework of Positive and Negative Valence Systems: a scoping review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Autism interest intensity in early childhood associates with executive functioning but not reward sensitivity or anxiety symptoms.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2022Article
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Specifically Improves Social Anhedonia Among Adults with Chronic Stress.Affective science · 2022Article
- Anhedonia and Hyperhedonia in Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Article
- [Positive cognitive neuroscience : Positive valence systems of the Research Domain Criteria initiative].Der Nervenarzt · 2021Review
- The Bidirectional Social-Cognitive Mechanisms of the Social-Attention Symptoms of Autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
This review synthesized current literature of behavioral and cognitive studies targeting reward processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Positive Valence System (PVS) domain was used as an overarching framework. The objectives were to determine which component operations of reward processing may be atypical in ASD and consequently postulate a heuristic model of reward processing in ASD that could be evaluated with future research. 34 studies were identified from the Embase, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases and included in the review using guidelines from the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (also known as PRISMA guidelines). The extant literature suggested potential relationships between social symptoms of ASD and PVS sub-constructs of reward anticipation, probabilistic and reinforcement learning, reward prediction error, reward (probability), delay, and effort as well as between restricted and repetitive behaviors and interests (RRBIs) and PVS-sub constructs of initial response to reward, reward anticipation, reward (probability), delay, and effort. However, these findings are limited by a sparse and mixed literature for some sub-constructs. We put forward a developmentally informed heuristic model that posits how these component reward processes may be implicated in early ASD behaviors as well as later emerging and more intransigent symptoms. Future research is needed to comprehensively evaluate the proposed model.
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