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‘Mom—I don’t want to hear it’: brain response to maternal praise and criticism in adolescents with major depressive disorder

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Silk, Jennifer S., Lee, Kyung Hwa, Elliott, Rosalind D., Hooley, Jill M., Dahl, Ronald E., Barber, Anita, Siegle, Greg J.·2017·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Recent research has implicated altered neural response to interpersonal feedback as an important factor in adolescent depression, with existing studies focusing on responses to feedback from virtual peers. We investigated whether depressed adolescents differed from healthy youth in neural response to social evaluative feedback from mothers. During neuroimaging, twenty adolescents in a current episode of major depressive disorder (MDD) and 28 healthy controls listened to previously recorded audio clips of their own mothers' praise, criticism and neutral comments. Whole-brain voxelwise analyses revealed that MDD youth, unlike controls, exhibited increased neural response to critical relative to neutral clips in the parahippocampal gyrus, an area involved in episodic memory encoding and retrieval. Depressed adolescents also showed a blunted response to maternal praise clips relative to neutral clips in the parahippocampal gyrus, as well as areas involved in reward and self-referential processing (i.e. ventromedial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, and thalamus/caudate). Findings suggest that maternal criticism may be more strongly encoded or more strongly activated during memory retrieval related to previous autobiographical instances of negative feedback from mothers in depressed youth compared to healthy youth. Furthermore, depressed adolescents may fail to process the reward value and self-relevance of maternal praise.

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  • Adolescents with or at high risk for depression show attenuated neural response to active social rewards such as maternal praise.

    “as well as to active social rewards, such as maternal praise (Aupperle et al., 2016; Silk et al., 2017)”

    From Neural Activation to Parental Praise Interacts With Social Context to Predict Adolescent Depressive Symptoms (2019) · cites this paper as Silk et al., 2017

    The Discussion reports blunted neural responses to maternal praise, compared with neutral clips, in adolescents with current major depressive disorder. It does not establish the same response in adolescents at high risk for depression; the Discussion says the cross-sectional design cannot determine whether the altered response is a risk factor. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Silk, J. S., Lee, K. H., Elliott, R. D., Hooley, J. M., Dahl, R. E., Barber, A., & Siegle, G. J.
Affiliations
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (US)
Corresponding author
Silk, Jennifer S.
Venue
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Published
2017-02-17
Volume
12
Issue
5
Pages
729-738
ISSN
  • 1749-5016 (ISSN-L)
  • 1749-5024
OpenAlex
W2589539474
Cited by
39
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1
FWCI
1.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH091327)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21DA024144)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
adolescent depression, major depressive disorder, maternal criticism, parahippocampal gyrus, episodic memory encoding, autobiographical memory, reward processing, self-referential processing, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, thalamus, caudate nucleus, mother-adolescent relationship
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychology, Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Child, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Mothers, Nerve Net, Peer Group, Social Environment, Social Perception, Prefrontal Cortex, Parahippocampal Gyrus, Feedback, Psychological

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