More evidence for blunting of neural responses during reward anticipation in schizophrenia, association with low motivation ( #ICYMI, #metaanalysis, #MIDTask, #neurophenotype ):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02201-8

Lovely video explainer about using #FMRI to visualize reward anticipation with the Monetary Incentive Delay Task (#MIDTask), courtesy @kingscollegelondon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_n3QALr2ls

Nucleus Accumbens (#NAcc) activity during reward anticipation blunted in children with two parents with alcohol use problems (versus one or none) in two large longitudinal samples (#FMRI, #MIDtask):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320357/

Acute cannabis blunts monetary #reward anticipation in the #NAcc of both adolescents and adults (d~.50; from @m_wall’s gang, #MIDtask):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902222002506