Impacts of early life adversity on the neurocircuitry of emotional memory in children.

ABSTRACT: Similar to adults with posttraumatic stress disorder, children with early life adversity show bias in memory for negative emotional stimuli. However, it is not well understood how childhood adversity impacts mechanisms underlying emotional memory. N = 56 children (8-14 years, 48% female) reported on adverse experiences including potentially traumatic events and underwent fMRI while attending to emotionally pleasant, neutral, or negative images. Post-scan, participants completed a cued recall test to assess memory for these images. Emotional difference-in-memory (DM) scores were computed by subtracting negative or positive from neutral recall performance. All children showed enhancing effects of emotion on recall, with no effect of trauma load. However, children with less trauma show

SUBMITTER: Oliver KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12037874 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature