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- Title
'Better the devil you know': a preliminary study of the differential modulating effects of reputation on reward processing for boys with and without externalizing behavior problems.
- Authors
Sharp, Carla; Burton, Philip; Ha, Carolyn
- Abstract
Very little is known about the neurobiological correlates of reward processing during social decision-making in the developing brain and whether prior social and moral information (reputations) modulates reward responses in youth as has been demonstrated in adults. Moreover, although externalizing behavior problems in youth are associated with deficits in reward processing and social cognition, a real-life social interaction paradigm using functional neuroimaging (fMRI) has not yet been applied to probe reward processing in such youth. Functional neuroimaging was used to examine the neural correlates of reward-related decision-making during a trust task in two samples of age-matched 11 to 16-year-old boys: with ( n = 10) and without ( n = 10) externalizing behavior problems. The task required subjects to decide whether to share or keep monetary rewards from partners they themselves identified during a real-life peer sociometric procedure as interpersonally aggressive or kind (vs. neutral). Results supported the notion that prior social and moral information (reputations) modulated reward responses in the adolescent brain. Moreover, boys with externalizing problems showed differential activation in the bilateral insula during the decision phase of the game as well as the caudate and anterior insula during the outcome phase of the game. Similar activation in adolescents in response to reward related stimuli as found in adults suggests some developmental continuity in corticostriatal circuits. Group differences are interpreted with caution given the small group sizes in the current study. Notwithstanding this limitation, the study provides preliminary evidence for anomalous reward responses in boys with externalizing behavior problems, thereby providing a possible biological correlate of well-established social-cognitive and reward-related theories of externalizing behavior disorders.
- Subjects
BRAIN physiology; ANALYSIS of variance; CHILD Behavior Checklist; DECISION making in adolescence; EXPERIMENTAL design; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; NEUROBIOLOGY; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH funding; REWARD (Psychology); STATISTICAL sampling; T-test (Statistics); SAMPLE size (Statistics); SOCIAL disabilities; BEHAVIOR disorders; REPEATED measures design
- Publication
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 11/12, p581
- ISSN
1018-8827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00787-011-0225-x