Effect of Maternal Rumination and Disengagement during Childhood on Offspring Neural Response to Reward in Late Adolescence

Maternal rumination is a cognitive-affective trait that could influence offspring's ability to respond flexibly to positive and negative events, depending on the quality of maternal problem-solving behaviors with which rumination co-occurs. As reward circuitry is sensitive to stressors and related to risk for depression, reward circuitry is an appropriate candidate mechanism for how maternal characteristics influence offspring. We evaluated the independent and combined effect of maternal rumination and disengagement on adolescent neural response to reward win and loss.
Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research