Neural Response to Emotional Faces As a Mediator of the Association between Social Victimization and Psychotic-like Experiences

Adolescent psychotic-like experiences (PLE) are risk factors for later psychopathology, and have been associated with social victimization and atypical neural response to social stimuli. Here, we use structural equation modeling to examine if social victimization is associated with PLE, and whether neural response to emotional faces mediate the association.