Are you curious about recent findings in the literature about neural activity, peer rejection 👭❌, and depression?
Directed lab student Mia Schubert breaks down a paper 📃 by Stroud and colleagues that describes how teens’ neural responses after peer rejection and acceptance are related to their risk for depression. In this study, Stroud and colleagues recruited 76 girls between the ages of 10-17 to chat with fake peers in a “chatroom” while undergoing a functional MRI scan. They were specifically interested in how teens’ brains responded to being rejected or accepted by the fake peers. They looked at whether those patterns of brain response were related to current risk for depression, and future risk of depression (6 and 12 months later). 🧠💥
Read through the post to find out what the authors found, and what this means for understanding risk for depression in adolescents.
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