Dalgleish, T;
Walsh, ND;
Mobbs, D;
Schweizer, S;
Van Harmelen, AL;
Dunn, B;
Dunn, V;
... Stretton, J; + view all
(2017)
Social pain and social gain in the adolescent brain: A common neural circuitry underlying both positive and negative social evaluation.
Scientific Reports
, 7
, Article 42010. 10.1038/srep42010.
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Abstract
Social interaction inherently involves the subjective evaluation of cues salient to social inclusion and exclusion. Testifying to the importance of such social cues, parts of the neural system dedicated to the detection of physical pain, the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and anterior insula (AI), have been shown to be equally sensitive to the detection of social pain experienced after social exclusion. However, recent work suggests that this dACC-AI matrix may index any socially pertinent information. We directly tested the hypothesis that the dACC-AI would respond to cues of both inclusion and exclusion, using a novel social feedback fMRI paradigm in a population-derived sample of adolescents. We show that the dACC and left AI are commonly activated by feedback cues of inclusion and exclusion. Our findings suggest that theoretical accounts of the dACC-AI network as a neural alarm system restricted within the social domain to the processing of signals of exclusion require significant revision.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Social pain and social gain in the adolescent brain: A common neural circuitry underlying both positive and negative social evaluation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep42010 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep42010 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050330 |
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