Social rewards are strong drivers of behavior and fundamental to well-being, yet there is a
lack of consensus regarding what actually defines a reward as “social.” Because a …

Background Social rewards (eg, social feedback, praise, and social interactions) are
fundamental to social learning and relationships across the life span. Exposure to social …

Background Irritability, a relatively lowered threshold for anger, is prevalent in typically and
atypically developing youths. Inhibitory control, the ability to suppress behaviors counter to …

Pediatric irritability is the most robust indicator of transdiagnostic psychopathology risk. It is
associated with altered neural reward processing, including neural networks related to …

Irritability is impairing and prevalent across pediatric psychiatric disorders and typical
development, yet its neural mechanisms are largely unknown. This study evaluated the …

Background Irritability is a transdiagnostic psychiatric phenotype defined as an increased
proneness to anger relative to peers. Trauma is defined as actual or threatened death …

Introduction Phenomena related to reward responsiveness have been extensively studied in
their associations with substance use and socioemotional functioning. One important task in …

Elevated irritability during adolescence predicts mental health issues in adulthood. Social
interactions commonly elicit symptoms of irritability. Prior research has traditionally …

Few consistent predictors of differential cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) outcome for
anxious youth have been identified, although emerging literature points to youth reward …

Major depressive disorder is often associated with worsened reward learning, with blunted
reward response persisting after remission. In this study, we developed a probabilistic …