Objective: A role for aberrant reward processing in the pathogenesis of depression has long
been proposed. However, no review has yet examined its role in depression by integrating …

Abstract The United States National Institute of Mental Health has recently promoted the
Research Domain Criteria framework, which emphasizes the study of neurocognitive …

Feedback indicating monetary loss elicits an apparent negative deflection in the event‐
related potential (ERP) that has been referred to as the feedback error‐related negativity …

Objective: A blunted neural response to rewards has recently emerged as a potential
mechanistic biomarker of adolescent depression. The reward positivity, an event-related …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) bring many strengths to the study of emotion regulation,
including: direct measurement of neural activity, high temporal resolution, affordability and …

There is growing interest in using electroencephalography and specifically the event-related
brain potential (ERP) methodology to study human reward processing. Since the discovery …

Highlights•Event-related potentials (ERPs) can be used to understand core deficits in major
depressive disorder (MDD) and risk.•Depression and risk for depression are associated with …

The ability to differentiate between rewards and losses is critical for motivated action, and
aberrant reward and loss processing has been associated with psychopathology. The …

Vulnerability models of depression posit that individual differences in trait-like vulnerabilities
emerge early in life and increase risk for the later development of depression. In this review …

Exposure to social stress is a well-established risk factor for the development and
recurrence of depression. Reduced neural responsiveness to monetary reward has been …