ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Neurobiological correlates of the social and emotional impact of peer victimization: A review.
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- Childhood peer abuse moderates associations of inflammation and cortisol with subcortical brain volume.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Contextualizing the adolescent social brain: Links to social health using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Bullying victimization and brain development: a longitudinal structural magnetic resonance imaging study from adolescence to early adulthood.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Anterior Cingulate Cortex Reactivity to Social Stimuli Marks Individual Differences to Peer Victimization on Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescence.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- Bullying Victimization and Brain Development: A Longitudinal Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study from Adolescence to Early Adulthood.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Social Reward Responsiveness Moderates the Association between Perceived Social Competence and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- School bullying predicts malevolent creativity in middle school students through anger and hostile attribution bias.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Atypical Neural Activation During Emotional but Not Nonemotional Response Inhibition in Healthy Young People Exposed to Childhood Maltreatment and Peer Victimization.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Neurobiology of emotional regulation in cyberbullying victims.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of vicarious reward processing and peer victimization experiences in late childhood.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Common neural correlates of disgust processing in childhood maltreatment and peer victimisation.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- An exploratory study of the prevalence and adverse associations of in-school traditional bullying and cyberbullying among adolescents in Connecticut.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- The role of inflammation in the effects of peer victimisation and stressful life events on mental health in childhood.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Peer victimization is very common during late childhood and adolescence. Despite the relatively reduced number of studies, the neurobiological underpinnings of the negative impact of peer victimization experiences have received increasing attention in recent years. The present selective review summarizes the most recent available evidence and provides a general overview of the impact of peer victimization experiences on social processing and decision-making at the neurobiological level, highlighting the most pressing areas requiring further research. Three key cognitive areas show a clear negative impact of peer victimization and bullying experiences: social valuation processing, reward and reinforcement learning and self-regulation processes. Victims show enhanced activation in key regions of the limbic system including the amygdala, rostral and dorsal anterior cingulate cortices, suggestive of enhanced sensitivity to social stimuli. They also show enhanced recruitment of lateral prefrontal regions crucially involved in cognitive and emotional regulation processes, and abnormal reward-related striatal function. The presence of psychopathology is a complex factor, increased as a consequence of peer victimization, but that also constitutes vulnerability to such experiences.
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