New preprint from my lab! In an abuse-enriched transdiagnostic sample, childhood threat and deprivation showed opposing curvilinear relationships with amygdala and sgACC stress reactivity — and these neural measures also tracked with post-traumatic stress symptoms. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Amygdala and Subgenual Cingulate Stressor-Evoked Activity Varies Across a Spectrum of Childhood Adversity Severity: Links to Affective and Cardiovascular Outcomes
Background Childhood adversity is linked to psychopathology risk and dysregulated stress reactivity; however, unified underlying neural mechanisms are unclear. A central visceral network, including th...