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Neural response to reward and depressive symptoms in late childhood to early adolescence

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Bress, Jennifer N., Smith, Ezra, Foti, Dan, Klein, Daniel N., Hajcak, Greg·2012·Biological Psychology

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Depression is a major public health concern, and the period from late childhood through early adolescence is a critical time in the development of depressive symptoms. In adults, depression and depressive symptoms are associated with a reduction in the feedback negativity (FN), an ERP component elicited by feedback indicating rewards versus losses. The current study sought to extend these findings to a sample of 64 children aged 8-13, and to examine developmental differences in the FN. Consistent with previous work in adults, higher depressive symptom scores were associated with a blunted FN across the sample. When responses to losses and gains were examined separately, only reduction in the response to monetary gain was associated with increased depressive symptoms. In the current study, the vast majority of children were pre-pubertal, and the FN was unrelated to both age and pubertal development. The FN may be an ideal biomarker for studying changes in reward sensitivity and depression that emerge as children transition through puberty.

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  • Adults with current and remitted depression, high risk older adolescents, and younger youth with depressive symptoms have exhibited reduced FN amplitude in response to monetary rewards and performance feedback.

    “Adults with current and remitted depression (e.g., Foti and Hajcak, 2009), high risk older adolescents (Foti et al., 2011), and younger youth (ages 8-13) with depressive symptoms (Bress et al., 2012), have exhibited reduced FN amplitude in response to monetary rewards and performance feedback”

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    The Discussion reports that, among children aged 8–13, higher depressive symptom scores were associated with a reduced FN difference between monetary losses and gains. But it explicitly says the study’s feedback was independent of performance, so Bress et al. do not support the performance-feedback part of the claim. The other populations in the sentence are attributed to other citations. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  1. Foti D Kotov R Klein DN Hajcak G Abnormal neural sensitivity to non-rewards versus rewards among adolescents at risk for depression Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology in press 21476024

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Authors
Bress, J. N., Smith, E., Foti, D., Klein, D. N., & Hajcak, G.
Affiliations
Stony Brook University (US)
Corresponding author
Hajcak, Greg
Venue
Biological Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-01
Volume
89
Issue
1
Pages
156-162
ISSN
0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1995169343
Cited by
187
References
59
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FWCI
3.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH069942)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Keywords
feedback negativity, depressive symptoms, reward processing, children, adolescents, puberty, reward sensitivity, event-related potentials, monetary gain, developmental changes
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Analysis of Variance, Brain, Brain Mapping, Child, Depressive Disorder, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Male, Psychophysics, Reward

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