Sticky criticism? Affective and neural responses to parental criticism and praise in adolescents with depression.
Lisanne A E M van HoutumMirjam C M WeverCharlotte C van SchieLoes H C JanssenWilma G M WentholtMarieke S TollenaarGeert-Jan WillBernet M ElzingaPublished in: Psychological medicine (2023)
Adolescents with depression might be especially attentive to parental criticism, as indexed by increased sgACC and hippocampus activity, and memorize this criticism more. Together with lower positive impact of praise, these findings suggest that cognitive biases in adolescent depression may affect how parental feedback is processed, and may be fed into their self-views.