Figure 2. Activation by anticipation of responding for rewards or to avoid losses.
Coronal and axial images are right-left reversed per radiological convention, with the Talairach coordinate of the image plane indicated. Group-wise activations survive False Discovery Rate correction to q < .05. Anticipation of responding for rewards contrasted with anticipation of non-reward activated the ventral striatum in both controls (A) and in adolescents with externalizing disorders (AED) (B). Anticipation of responding to avoid losses, however, did not activate any brain regions above threshold in either AED or controls.