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Childhood Unpredictability and Reward Processing #16

Open LillianXu2019 opened 3 years ago

LillianXu2019 commented 3 years ago

Research question(s)

Extract the construct of unpredictability from multiple measures of childhood adversity, including parenting, residential change, and life events; Examine whether individual differences in reward processing in the Monetary Incentive Delay task, both neurological and behavioral, associated with childhood unpredictability.

Description

Altered brain activation during reward processing following early adversity was shown to underly maladaptive decision making, and thus prove a candidate mediator between early adversity and later behavioral problems. But less is known about what characteristics in early adversity shape reward processing. Increasing evidence has suggested that experiencing reward inconsistencies in the early environment changes children’s reward expectations and subsequent decision-making. However, few existing scales provide a satisfactory measure of this novel construct of childhood unpredictability.

Tools and algorithms to be used

Predictive modeling (regression) of the relationship between childhood unpredictability and behavioral and neuroimaging results of the MID task.

Skills we could use help with (optional)

Use of Python for predictive modeling Use of Python for neuroimaging data processing

Suggested keywords/tags

Early life adversity, unpredictability, reward processing

mchoi3210 commented 3 years ago

Hi Lillian! I think this is a really interesting and wonderful idea, and I would love to contribute during the project week if you are looking for collaborators :) I haven't worked with imaging data a lot, specifically with huge datasets, but I am relatively familiar with the emotion regulation processes that can be measured by e.g., the emotional N-back task. I'd love to talk more about analysis plans.

cassandrajustinelowe commented 3 years ago

Hi Lillian, I am interested in participating in this during project week!

LillianXu2019 commented 3 years ago

Hi Mingyeong (if that’s the correct name), thanks for your interest, and welcome to the team! It doesn’t matter if you haven’t worked too much with neuroimaging data. The most important is that you’re interested in this topic of unpredictability and reward processing.

Once we’ve got some other teammates, we can schedule a talk to get us started. What would be the best email address to reach you? I’ll email you next week, so please stay tuned!

LillianXu2019 commented 3 years ago

Hi Cassandra, thanks for your interest, and welcome to the team! I’m glad that you’re also interested in this topic of unpredictability and reward processing.

Once we’ve got some other teammates, we can schedule a talk to get us started. What would be the best email address to reach you? I’ll email you next week, so please stay tuned!

mchoi3210 commented 3 years ago

Hi Lillian,

Yes, that's my name, and I am excited to work on the unpredictability and reward processing project together! My email is mgychoi@gmail.com and I am looking forward to meeting with you and other teammates as well! Hope you continue to stay safe and well,

Mingyeong

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Hi Mingyeong (if that’s the correct name), thanks for your interest, and welcome to the team! It doesn’t matter if you haven’t worked too much with neuroimaging data. The most important is that you’re interested in this topic of unpredictability and reward processing.

Once we’ve got some other teammates, we can schedule a talk to get us started. What would be the best email address to reach you? I’ll email you next week, so please stay tuned!

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cassandrajustinelowe commented 3 years ago

Hi Cassandra, thanks for your interest, and welcome to the team! I’m glad that you’re also interested in this topic of unpredictability and reward processing. Once we’ve got some other teammates, we can schedule a talk to get us started. What would be the best email address to reach you? I’ll email you next week, so please stay tuned! Best, Lillian From: cassandrajustinelowe notifications@github.com Date: Friday, February 26, 2021 at 10:38 AM To: ABCD-ReproNim/projects projects@noreply.github.com Cc: Lillian XU yuyan.xu@wisc.edu, Mention mention@noreply.github.com Subject: Re: [ABCD-ReproNim/projects] Childhood Unpredictability and Reward Processing (#16) Hi Lillian, I am interested in participating in this during project week! — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#16 (comment)>, or unsubscribehttps://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMLNVIJL72PFTXGNZEOHYJLTA7TAVANCNFSM4XVNR6MA.

Hi!

cassandrajustinelowe@gmail.com is the best email.

Thanks! Cassandra

crfreeman commented 3 years ago

Hello, I would be interested in participating in this project! My availability is somewhat limited though as I am a clinical psychology student and do part time clinical work. My email is clara.freeman@mail.mcgill.ca.

LillianXu2019 commented 3 years ago

Great! Will send you an email later this week. Looking forward to working with you! @crfreeman

richford commented 3 years ago

Hi @LillianXu2019, great project proposal! I wanted to point out that there might be some overlap between this project and #7, where they will be doing some factor analysis or CCA of early life adversity measures.

If you want to, you could reach out to @avannucci to discuss different approaches to extract/transform your adversity measures.

avannucci commented 3 years ago

Hi @LillianXu2019 I wanted to check in with you about how you are planning to extract information about childhood unpredictability for your project. We have compiled a large number of variables from the baseline spanning many adversity types (e.g. trauma, poverty, emotional maltreatment, unpredictability, etc.), and plan to do a bagging-enhanced factor analysis to extract adversity dimensions from the data. I wonder if it makes sense to try to harmonize our approaches to facilitate interpretation across studies? Feel free to slack me in the abcd-repronim slack (Anna Vannucci).

LillianXu2019 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions @richford and @avannucci! I've PMed Anna in Slack and I think harmonizing our approaches would be very beneficial :)

Ananthrks commented 3 years ago

I would like to participate in the project. Current our lab / I am working on a computational model based approach for understanding the reward processing.

LillianXu2019 commented 3 years ago

Thanks @Ananthrks for your interest! We're done with the project week but will for sure continue this work. Would you mind sharing a little more of your background? E.g., could you email me who you are, which school/degree you are in, who are you working with, and your research interests (papers if any)? My email address is yuyan.xu@wisc.edu. Thanks!