Different forms of childhood maltreatment have different impacts on the neural systems involved in the representation of reinforcement value.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current study aimed to address two gaps in the literature on child maltreatment, reinforcement processing and psychopathology. First, the extent to which compromised reinforcement processing might be particularly associated with either neglect or abuse. Second, the extent to which maltreatment-related compromised reinforcement processing might be associated with particular symptom sets (depression, conduct problems, anxiety) or symptomatology more generally.

Methods

A sample of adolescents (N = 142) aged between 14 and 18 years with varying levels of prior maltreatment participated in this fMRI study. They were scanned while performing a passive avoidance learning task, where the participant learns to respond to stimuli that engender reward and avoid respondin

SUBMITTER: Blair KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8714998 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature