Neural systems underlying reward cue processing in early adolescence: The role of puberty and pubertal hormones.

ABSTRACT: Affective neuroscience research suggests that maturational changes in reward circuitry during adolescence present opportunities for new learning, but likely also contribute to increases in vulnerability for psychiatric disorders such as depression and substance abuse. Basic research in animal models and human neuroimaging has made progress in understanding the normal development of reward circuitry in adolescence, yet, few functional neuroimaging studies have examined puberty-related influences on the functioning of this circuitry. The goal of this study was to address this gap by examining the extent to which striatal activation and cortico-striatal functional connectivity to cues predicting upcoming rewards would be positively associated with pubertal status and levels of pubertal hormon

SUBMITTER: Ladouceur CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7085287 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature