PMID- 23804962 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140430 LR - 20211021 IS - 1467-9280 (Electronic) IS - 0956-7976 (Print) IS - 0956-7976 (Linking) VI - 24 IP - 8 DP - 2013 Aug TI - The medial prefrontal cortex and the emergence of self-conscious emotion in adolescence. PG - 1554-62 LID - 10.1177/0956797613475633 [doi] AB - In the present study, we examined the relationship between developmental modulation of socioaffective brain systems and adolescents' preoccupation with social evaluation. Child, adolescent, and adult participants viewed cues indicating that a camera was alternately off, warming up, or projecting their image to a peer during the acquisition of behavioral-, autonomic-, and neural-response (functional MRI) data. Believing that a peer was actively watching them was sufficient to induce self-conscious emotion that rose in magnitude from childhood to adolescence and partially subsided into adulthood. Autonomic arousal was uniquely heightened in adolescents. These behavioral patterns were paralleled by emergent engagement of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and striatum-MPFC connectivity during adolescence, which are thought to promote motivated social behavior in adolescence. These findings demonstrate that adolescents' self-consciousness is related to age-dependent sensitivity of brain systems critical to socioaffective processes. Further, unique interactions between the MPFC and striatum may provide a mechanism by which social-evaluation contexts influence adolescent behavior. FAU - Somerville, Leah H AU - Somerville LH AD - Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, MA 02138, USA. somerville@fas.harvard.edu FAU - Jones, Rebecca M AU - Jones RM FAU - Ruberry, Erika J AU - Ruberry EJ FAU - Dyke, Jonathan P AU - Dyke JP FAU - Glover, Gary AU - Glover G FAU - Casey, B J AU - Casey BJ LA - eng GR - K99 MH087813/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R00 MH087813/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - K99 MH078713/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130626 PL - United States TA - Psychol Sci JT - Psychological science JID - 9007542 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Adolescent Development/*physiology MH - Brain/physiology MH - Brain Mapping MH - Caudate Nucleus/physiology MH - Child MH - *Emotions MH - Female MH - Functional Neuroimaging MH - Galvanic Skin Response MH - Humans MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging MH - Male MH - Neostriatum/*physiology MH - Neural Pathways/physiology MH - Peer Group MH - Prefrontal Cortex/*physiology MH - *Self Concept MH - Young Adult PMC - PMC3742683 MID - NIHMS476098 OTO - NOTNLM OT - adolescence OT - adolescent development OT - brain OT - embarrassment OT - evaluation OT - fMRI OT - medial prefrontal cortex OT - self-consciousness OT - social OT - social cognition EDAT- 2013/06/28 06:00 MHDA- 2014/05/03 06:00 PMCR- 2014/08/01 CRDT- 2013/06/28 06:00 PHST- 2013/06/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/06/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/05/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 0956797613475633 [pii] AID - 10.1177/0956797613475633 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Psychol Sci. 2013 Aug;24(8):1554-62. doi: 10.1177/0956797613475633. Epub 2013 Jun 26.