Differences in Consummatory but Not Anticipatory Reward Processing Predict Depressive Symptoms in Young Adult Women.

ABSTRACT: Depression has been postulated to relate to alterations in both anticipatory (i.e., motivation) and consummatory (i.e., hedonic pleasure) stages of reward processing. However, few studies have concurrently examined the various processes of these stages. Furthermore, little attention has been paid to whether these associations are sex-specific, despite increasing evidence of the sex specificity of neural markers of internalizing disorders. The current study examines event-related potentials (ERPs) of reward processing recorded during a monetary incentive delay task among a community sample of n = 309 emerging adults in relation to self-reported symptoms of depression. Regression modeling indicated that greater depressive symptom scores were associated with reduced responsivity to reward fee

SUBMITTER: Lees T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11887006 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature