Social neural sensitivity as a susceptibility marker to family context in predicting adolescent externalizing behavior.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence represents a period of risk for developing patterns of risk-taking and conduct problems, and the quality of the family environment is one robust predictor of such externalizing behavior. However, family factors may not affect all youth uniformly, and individual differences in neurobiological susceptibility to the family context may moderate its influence. The current study investigated brain-based individual differences in social motivational processing as a susceptibility marker to family conflict in predicting externalizing behavior in early adolescent youth. 163 adolescents (M_age = 12.87 years) completed an fMRI scan during which they anticipated social rewards and social punishments. For adolescents with heightened ventral striatum and amygdala blood oxygen-level

SUBMITTER: Turpyn CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8325100 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature