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Mashup Score: 7Traumatic social experience blocks social reward and promotes sustained social avoidance, study finds - 1 year(s) ago
Past social trauma is encoded by a population of stress/threat-responsive brain cells that become hyperactivated during subsequent interaction with non-threatening social targets. As a consequence, previously rewarding social targets are now perceived as social threats, which promotes generalized social avoidance and impaired social reward processing that can contribute to psychiatric disorders,…
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