Maladaptive social information processing in childhood predicts young men's atypical amygdala reactivity to threat

摘要

BackgroundMaladaptive social information processing, such as hostile attributional bias and aggressive response generation, is associated with childhood maladjustment. Although social information processing problems are correlated with heightened physiological responses to social threat, few studies have examined their associations with neural threat circuitry, specifically amygdala activation to social threat.