Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci · Dec 2020
Childhood Violence Exposure and Social Deprivation are Linked to Adolescent Threat and Reward Neural Function.
Childhood adversity is, unfortunately, highly prevalent and strongly associated with later psychopathology. Recent theories posit that two dimensions of early adversity, threat and deprivation, have distinct effects on brain development. The current study evaluated whether violence exposure (threat) and social deprivation (deprivation) were associated with adolescent amygdala and ventral striatum activation, respectively, in a prospective, well-sampled, longitudinal cohort using a pre-registered, open science approach. ⋯ Consistent with recent theories, different forms of early adversity were associated with region-specific differences in brain activation.