The Role of Social Reward and Corticostriatal Connectivity in Substance Use.

ABSTRACT: This report describes an ongoing R03 grant that explores the links between trait reward sensitivity, substance use, and neural responses to social and nonsocial reward. Although previous research has shown that trait reward sensitivity and neural responses to reward are linked to substance use, whether this relationship is impacted by how people process social stimuli remains unclear. We are investigating these questions via a neuroimaging study with college-aged participants, using individual difference measures that examine the relation between substance use, social context, and trait reward sensitivity with tasks that measure reward anticipation, strategic behavior, social reward consumption, and the influence of social context on reward processing. We predict that substance use will be

SUBMITTER: Sazhin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673297 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature