Vishnu P. Murty

Neural bias to social feedback moderates link between childhood abuse and subsequent harsh parenting

Abstract Childhood abuse is often transmitted intergenerationally, leaving many families trapped in cycles of abuse. Because child abuse is transmitted through social interactions, developing effective intervention targets to disrupt these cycles may require understanding the mechanisms that support processing social f...

Mapping Mesolimbic Dopamine Projections to Subcortical Circuits Underlying Adaptive Behavior: A Human 7T Diffusion Tractography Atlas

The mesolimbic dopamine system supports broad aspects of adaptive behavior including salience, learning, memory, and decision making, yet the structural organization supporting these functions remains incompletely mapped in humans. Using high-resolution 7T diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (up to N=173), we reconstr...

Social Motivation and Hippocampal-Cortical Structural Development in Adolescent Girls

The hippocampus and cortical memory networks have an inflection point in middle childhood

Connections within a network that supports semantic memory matures early, but connectivity between this network and hippocampus does not mature until at least 7-years of age, identifies 7-years as a developmental inflection point in both hippocampal signaling and hippocampal-cortical memory interactions that may suppor...