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Altered Striatal Activation Predicting Real-World Positive Affect in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder
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OBJECTIVE: Alterations in reward-related brain function and phenomenological aspects of positive affect are increasingly examined in the development of major depressive disorder. The authors tested differences in reward-related brain function in healthy and depressed adolescents, and the authors examined direct links between reward-related brain function and positive mood that occurred in real-world contexts. METHOD: Fifteen adolescents with major depressive disorder and 28 adolescents with no history of psychiatric disorder, ages 8-17 years, completed a functional magnetic resonance imaging guessing task involving monetary reward. Participants also reported their subjective positive affect in natural environments during a 4-day cell-phone-based ecological momentary assessment. RESULTS: Adolescents with major depressive disorder exhibited less striatal response than healthy comparison adolescents during reward anticipation and reward outcome, but more response in dorsolateral and medial prefrontal cortex. Diminished activation in a caudate region associated with this depression group difference was correlated with lower subjective positive affect in natural environments, particularly within the depressed group. CONCLUSIONS: Results support models of altered reward processing and related positive affect in young people with major depressive disorder and indicate that depressed adolescents' brain response to monetary reward is related to their affective experience in natural environments. Additionally, these results suggest that reward-processing paradigms capture brain function relevant to real-world positive affect.
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“Across studies, over-recruitment of PFC regions (mPFC, dlPFC) during reward processing has been interpreted as suggesting over-compensation for reduced striatal responses to rewards [104, 111, 112].”
From Prefrontal cortex and depression (2022) · cites this paper as [111]
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“In a study using a card-guessing task, depressed adolescents had potentiated mPFC (BA10) activation (coupled with blunted ventral striatal activation) to rewards [111].”
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“diminished striatal (and heightened prefrontal) responses to reward anticipation and outcome were associated with reports of lower daily positive affect and higher depression in both typically-developing and depressed adolescents [50,51].”
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“greater depressive symptoms and lower daily positive affect have been associated with heightened PFC responses in adolescence [50,51].”
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“depression has been associated with altered neural activity in the ventral striatum (Epstein et al., 2006; Eshel and Roiser, 2010; Forbes et al., 2009; Monk et al., 2008.; Pizzagalli et al., 2009; Price and Drevets, 2010; Teicher et al., 2009), which includes the nucleus accumbens (NAcc)”
From Reduced nucleus accumbens reactivity and adolescent depression following early-life stress (2013) · cites this paper as Forbes et al., 2009
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“Reduced mesolimbic activity in MDD has been found during reward anticipation and outcomes in both adults and children [210,219-227] and during reward learning [206].”
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“The few studies that have evaluated potential relations between mesolimbic neural activity and subjectively experienced reward [220] or motivation to work for rewards [154] have yielded promising initial results suggesting the external validity of laboratory-based measures of reward processes”
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“Finally, structural and functional brain indices may be sufficiently stable within and across developmental periods (Caceres et al., 2009, Forbes et al., 2009, Hariri, 2009, Johnstone et al., 2005, Manuck et al., 2007, Miller et al., 2002, Miller et al., 2009, Wu et al., 2014, Zuo et al., 2010) to warrant treatment as susceptibility factors.”
From Adolescent neurobiological susceptibility to social context (2016) · cites this paper as Forbes et al., 2009
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- Authors
- Forbes, E. E., Hariri, A. R., Martin, S. L., Silk, J. S., Moyles, D. L., Fisher, P. M., Brown, S. M., Ryan, N. D., Birmaher, B., Axelson, D. A., & Dahl, R. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 2009-01
- Volume
- 166
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 64-73
- ISSN
- 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
- 1535-7228
- PMC
- PMC2701209
- OpenAlex
- W2138309161
- Cited by
- 582
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (P01MH041712, P01 MH 41712, R24MH067346, K01MH072837, K01MH074769)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Treatment of Major Depression
- Keywords
- adolescent major depressive disorder, striatal activation, reward processing, positive affect, caudate nucleus, monetary rewards, reward anticipation, reward outcome, prefrontal cortex, ecological momentary assessment, functional MRI
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Affect, Age Factors, Caudate Nucleus, Child, Corpus Striatum, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Dominance, Cerebral, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motivation, Neurons, Oxygen, Prognosis, Reward, Social Environment, Prefrontal Cortex, Computers, Handheld
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