Altered reward and effort processing in children with maltreatment experience: a potential indicator of mental health vulnerability.

ABSTRACT: In this longitudinal study of children and adolescents with a documented history of maltreatment, we investigated the impact of maltreatment on behavioral and neural indices of effort-based decision making for reward and examined their associations with future internalizing symptoms. Thirty-seven children with a documented history of maltreatment (MT group) and a carefully matched group of 33 non-maltreated children (NMT group) aged 10-16, completed an effort-based decision-making task during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Internalizing symptoms were assessed at baseline and again 18 months later. Computational models were implemented to extract individual estimates of reward and effort sensitivity, and neural signals during decision-making about different levels of reward a

SUBMITTER: Armbruster-Genc DJN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8832084 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature