Maladaptive social information processing in childhood predicts young men's atypical amygdala reactivity to threat.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maladaptive social information processing, such as hostile attributional bias and aggressive response generation, is associated with childhood maladjustment. Although social information processing problems are correlated with heightened physiological responses to social threat, few studies have examined their associations with neural threat circuitry, specifically amygdala activation to social threat.

Methods

A cohort of 310 boys participated in an ongoing longitudinal study and completed questionnaires and laboratory tasks assessing their social and cognitive characteristics the boys were between 10 and 12 years of age. At age 20, 178 of these young men underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging and a social threat task. At age 22, adult criminal arrest reco

SUBMITTER: Choe DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4336639 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature