Blunted Response to Rewards in Preschoolers with Depression (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Past research has found that the brains of depressed adults and adolescents often don't respond as much to rewards as the brains of people who don't have depression. Now, child psychiatry researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found the same thing is true in very young children.

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