Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a period of rapid biological and psychological development, characterized by increasing emotional reactivity and risk-taking, especially in peer contexts. Theories of adolescent neural development suggest that the balance in sensitivity across neural threat, reward and regulatory systems contributes to these changes. Building on previous research, this study used a novel social feedback task to explore activation and functional connectivity in the context of social threat and reward in a sample of mid-adolescent girls (n = 86, Mage = 16.32). When receiving negative peer feedback, adolescents showed elevated activation in, and amygdala connectivity with, social processing regions [e.g. medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ)]. When receiving positiv

SUBMITTER: Davis MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10036875 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature