"Loser" or "Popular"?: Neural response to social status words in adolescents with major depressive disorder.

ABSTRACT: Concerns about social status are ubiquitous during adolescence, with information about social status often conveyed in text formats. Depressed adolescents may show alterations in the functioning of neural systems supporting processing of social status information. We examined whether depressed youth exhibited altered neural activation to social status words in temporal and prefrontal cortical regions thought to be involved in social cognitive processing, and whether this response was associated with development. Forty-nine adolescents (ages 10-18; 35 female), including 20 with major depressive disorder and 29 controls, were scanned while identifying the valence of words that connoted positive and negative social status. Results indicated that depressed youth showed reduced late activation

SUBMITTER: Silk JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5783544 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature