Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and neural responses to reward.

ABSTRACT: A growing literature links socioeconomic disadvantage and adversity to brain function, including disruptions in reward processing. Less research has examined exposure to community violence (ECV) as a specific adversity related to differences in reward-related brain activation, despite the prevalence of community violence exposure for those living in disadvantaged contexts. The current study tested whether ECV was associated with reward-related ventral striatum (VS) activation after accounting for familial factors associated with differences in reward-related activation (e.g. parenting and family income). Moreover, we tested whether ECV is a mechanism linking socioeconomic disadvantage to reward-related activation in the VS. We utilized data from 444 adolescent twins sampled from birth reco

SUBMITTER: Westerman HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11079326 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature