TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Neighborhood deprivation shapes motivational-neurocircuit recruitment in children JO - Psychological science A1 - Mullins, Teagan S. A1 - Campbell, Ethan M. A1 - Hogeveen, Jeremy SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Implementing motivated behaviors on the basis of prior reward is central to adaptive human functioning, but aberrant reward-motivated behavior is a core feature of neuropsychiatric illness. Children from disadvantaged neighborhoods have decreased access to rewards, which may shape motivational neurocircuits and risk for psychopathology. Here, we leveraged the unprecedented neuroimaging data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study to test the hypothesis that neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage shapes the functional recruitment of motivational neurocircuits in children. Specifically, via the ABCD study's monetary-incentive-delay task (N = 6,396 children; age: 9-10 years), we found that children from zip codes with a high Area Deprivation Index demonstrate blunted recruitment of striatum (dorsal and ventral nuclei) and pallidum during reward anticipation. In fact, blunted dorsal striatal recruitment during reward anticipation mediated the association between Area Deprivation Index and increased attention problems. These data reveal a candidate mechanism driving elevated risk for psychopathology in children from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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LA - en SN - 0956-7976 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797620929299 ID - ref1 ER -