Friendship stability in adolescence is associated with ventral striatum responses to vicarious rewards

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  • who: Elisabeth Schreuders from the Institut Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands have published the paper: Friendship stability in adolescence is associated with ventral striatum responses to vicarious rewards, in the Journal: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • what: In short, the authors show that participants with stable best friendships show an age-related quadratic change in ventral striatum activity when rewards were gained vs. lost for best friends with a peak in activity in mid-late adolescence. Given the a priori hypotheses and confirmed by the findings from the whole -brain analysis, the authors focused on activation . . .

     

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