Hyporesponsive reward anticipation in the basal ganglia following severe institutional deprivation early in life
Twelve adolescents adopted into UK families after severe early deprivation in Romania and eleven non-adopted comparison participants completed a monetary-reward task during functional brain imaging. The adopted group showed less recruitment of the striatum during reward anticipation, despite similar task accuracy and response speed.
Limitations: The small, selected imaging sample limits generalisation. The comparison group was non-adopted, so adoption and deprivation histories cannot be separated by this contrast. The observational result does not show that adoption causes altered reward processing. ERA-related publications may use overlapping participants.
- Research type
- Functional neuroimaging comparison study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: English and Romanian Adoptees Study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
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Topics: adolescence, brain development, institutional deprivation
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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