McCrory, E;
Ogle, JR;
Gerin, MI;
Viding, E;
(2019)
Neurocognitive Adaptation and Mental Health Vulnerability Following Maltreatment: The Role of Social Functioning.
Child Maltreatment
, 24
(4)
pp. 435-451.
10.1177/1077559519830524.
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Abstract
Childhood maltreatment is associated with a life-time increase in risk of mental health disorder. We propose that such vulnerability may stem in large part from altered patterns of social functioning. Here we highlight key findings from the psychological and epidemiological literature indicating that early maltreatment experience compromises social functioning and attenuates social support in ways that increase mental health vulnerability. We then review the extant neuroimaging studies of children and adolescents, focusing on three domains implicated in social functioning: threat processing, reward processing and emotion regulation. We discuss how adaptations in these domains may increase latent vulnerability to mental health problems by impacting on social functioning via increased stress susceptibility as well as increased stress generation. Finally, we explore how computational psychiatry approaches, alongside systematically reported measures of social functioning, can complement studies of neural function in the creation of a mechanistic framework aimed at informing approaches to prevention and intervention.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Neurocognitive Adaptation and Mental Health Vulnerability Following Maltreatment: The Role of Social Functioning |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1077559519830524 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559519830524 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | maltreatment, brain, psychiatric disorder, social functioning, computational psychiatry |
| 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10071030 |
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