Neural mechanisms of reward and loss processing in a low-income sample of at-risk adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a time of engagement in risky, reward-driven behaviors, with concurrent developmental changes within reward-related neural systems. As previous research has recruited mostly higher socioeconomic, European and European American participants, therefore limiting generalizability to the US population, especially for populations of color or low-income populations. The current study provided one of the first opportunities to examine the neural correlates of reward and loss functioning in a population-based sample of adolescents at increased risk for poverty-related adversities. The study investigated neural reward and loss processing and whether age, pubertal status and the social constructs of gender and race predicted individual differences in reward- and loss-related brain func

SUBMITTER: Murray L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7759206 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature