Editorial: Evidence for Transactional Relations Between Reward Processing and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence.
Editorial: Evidence for Transactional Relations Between Reward Processing and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence.
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社论:青春期奖励处理与抑郁症状之间交易关系的证据。
DOI:
10.1016/j.jaac.2023.03.001
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
13.3
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Gibb,BrandonE
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Gibb,BrandonE
Reward processing deficits play a clear role in depression and depression risk. For example, over a decade of research has shown that individual differences in initial reward responsiveness, indexed by the reward positivity (RewP) event related potential (ERP) component, are associated with current depression and future depression risk. 1, 2 Mackin and colleagues’ study3 builds from this previous literature by asking two key questions:(1) Is the magnitude of the impact of RewP on prospective changes in depressive symptoms similar during late childhood and adolescence? and (2) Are prospective links between RewP and depressive symptoms transactional, with depressive symptoms also predicting future change in RewP during this developmental window? These questions are important because this is a time period during which rates of depression increase dramatically4 and when there are normative changes in reward processing. 5 However, we know very little about how relations between reward processing and depression may change across development. The study included 609 youth participating in the Stony Brook Temperament Study who were assessed at age 9, 12, and 15 years. At each wave of data collection, youth completed an ERP assessment of reward outcome processing and youth and their mothers’ completed measures of youth depressive symptoms. The researchers also included information about youths’ biological sex at birth and pubertal level at each assessment. Using structural equation modeling, Mackin et al. 3 found that reward processing deficits (indexed as the difference in RewP amplitude following monetary gain versus loss feedback) and depressive symptoms were transactionally related over time between the ages of 12 and 15, but not between the ages of 9 and 12, even after accounting for the influence of biological sex and pubertal level at each assessment. That is, a more blunted RewP predicted increases in depressive symptoms three years later during early to middle adolescence (from age 12 to 15), but not during late childhood (from age 9 to 12). Similarly, higher levels of depressive symptoms predicted an increasingly blunted RewP three years later during adolescence but not during late childhood. The findings were stronger for the RewP difference score than for ERP responses to monetary gains or