[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty as a driver of the youth mental health crisis

S Schweizer, RP Lawson, SJ Blakemore - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mental health problems in young people have been on the rise for over a decade, with that
trend accelerating during the pandemic. This review proposes that the catalyst effect of the …

Rethinking the risk for depression using the RDoC: A psychophysiological perspective

C Dell'Acqua, D Palomba, E Patron… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Considering that the classical categorical approach to mental disorders does not allow a
clear identification of at-risk conditions, the dimensional approach provided by the Research …

Neural response to rewarding social feedback in never-depressed adolescent girls and their mothers with remitted depression: Associations with multiple risk indices.

C Freeman, P Ethridge, I Banica, A Sandre… - … and Clinical Science, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Prevention of depression requires a clear understanding of etiology. Previous studies have
identified reduced neural responses to monetary reward as a risk factor for depression, but …

Risk factors for the intergenerational transmission of depression in women and girls: Understanding neural correlates of major depressive disorder and the role of …

GO Allison, C Freeman, H Renault, I Banica… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2023 - Springer
Deficits in neural reward processing have been implicated in the etiology of depression and
have been observed in high-risk individuals. However, depression is a heterogeneous …

Neural response to rewards moderates the within‐person association between daily positive events and positive affect during a period of stress exposure

H Renault, C Freeman, I Banica, A Sandre… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stress and neural responses to reward can interact to predict psychopathology, but the
mechanisms of this interaction are unclear. One possibility is that the strength of neural …

Early life interpersonal stress and depression: Social reward processing as a potential mediator

EE Palacios-Barrios, K Patel, JL Hanson - Progress in Neuro …, 2024 - Elsevier
Experiencing stressful events early in life is lamentably very common and widespread
across the globe. Despite the strong link between experiencing such stress and developing …

[HTML][HTML] How and when social evaluative feedback is processed in the brain: A systematic review on ERP studies

A Peters, H Helming, M Bruchmann, A Wiegandt… - Cortex, 2024 - Elsevier
Social evaluative feedback informs the receiver of the other's views, which may contain
judgments of personality-related traits and/or the level of likability. Such kinds of social …

Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain.

A Weinberg, A Sandre - American Psychologist, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Parental depression is a well-established risk factor for depression in offspring. This
intergenerational transmission involves a diverse array of mechanisms, both familial and …

Linking social reward responsiveness and affective responses to the social environment: An ecological momentary assessment study

C Dell'Acqua, GO Allison, CH Yun… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Social support is a key predictor of well‐being, but not everyone experiences mental health
benefits from receiving it. However, given that a growing number of interventions are based …

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on neural responses to reward: A quasi-experiment

C Freeman, L Carpentier, A Weinberg - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has been a prolonged period of stress due to social
isolation, illness, death, and other major life disruptions. Neural reward sensitivity, essential …