Adolescent neighborhood quality predicts adult dACC response to social exclusion.

ABSTRACT: Neuroimaging studies using the social-exclusion paradigm Cyberball indicate increased dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and right insula activity as a function of exclusion. However, comparatively less work has been done on how social status factors may moderate this finding. This study used the Cyberball paradigm with 85 (45 females) socio-economically diverse participants from a larger longitudinal sample. We tested whether neighborhood quality during adolescence would predict subsequent neural responding to social exclusion in young adulthood. Given previous behavioral studies indicating greater social vigilance and negative evaluation as a function of lower status, we expected that lower adolescent neighborhood quality would predict greater dACC activity during exclusion at young

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4483560 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature