Reward-related neural correlates of early life stress in school-aged children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early life stress likely contributes to dysfunction in neural reward processing systems. However, studies to date have focused almost exclusively on adolescents and adults, measured early life stress retrospectively, and have often failed to control for concurrent levels of stress. The current study examined the contribution of prospectively measured cumulative life stress in preschool-age children on reward-related neural activation and connectivity in school-age children.

Methods

Children (N = 46) and caregivers reported children's exposure to early life stress between birth and preschool age (mean = 4.8 years, SD = 0.80). At follow-up (mean age = 7.52 years, SD = .78), participants performed a child-friendly monetary incentive delay task during functional magne

SUBMITTER: Morelli NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8144345 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature