Diminished prospective mental representations of reward mediate reward learning strategies among youth with internalizing symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescent internalizing symptoms and trauma exposure have been linked with altered reward learning processes and decreased ventral striatal responses to rewarding cues. Recent computational work on decision-making highlights an important role for prospective representations of the imagined outcomes of different choices. This study tested whether internalizing symptoms and trauma exposure among youth impact the generation of prospective reward representations during decision-making and potentially mediate altered behavioral strategies during reward learning.

Methods

Sixty-one adolescent females with varying exposure to interpersonal violence exposure (n = 31 with histories of physical or sexual assault) and severity of internalizing symptoms completed a soc

SUBMITTER: Cisler JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10600826 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature