Childhood adversities characterize the heterogeneity in the brain pattern of individuals during neurodevelopment

BACKGROUND: Several factors shape the neurodevelopmental trajectory. A key area of focus in neurodevelopmental research is to estimate the factors that have maximal influence on the brain and can tip the balance from typical to atypical development.

METHODS: Utilizing a dissimilarity maximization algorithm on the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) of the resting state functional MRI data, we classified subjects from the cVEDA neurodevelopmental cohort (n = 987, aged 6-23 years) into homogeneously patterned DMD (representing typical development in 809 subjects) and heterogeneously patterned DMD (indicative of atypical development in 178 subjects).

RESULTS: Significant DMD differences were primarily identified in the default mode network (DMN) regions across these groups (p < 0.05, Bonferroni corrected). While the groups were comparable in cognitive performance, the atypical group had more frequent exposure to adversities and faced higher abuses (p < 0.05, Bonferroni corrected). Upon evaluating brain-behavior correlations, we found that correlation patterns between adversity and DMN dynamic modes exhibited age-dependent variations for atypical subjects, hinting at differential utilization of the DMN due to chronic adversities.

CONCLUSION: Adversities (particularly abuse) maximally influence the DMN during neurodevelopment and lead to the failure in the development of a coherent DMN system. While DMN's integrity is preserved in typical development, the age-dependent variability in atypically developing individuals is contrasting. The flexibility of DMN might be a compensatory mechanism to protect an individual in an abusive environment. However, such adaptability might deprive the neural system of the faculties of normal functioning and may incur long-term effects on the psyche.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Psychological medicine - (2024) vom: 21. März, Seite 1-13

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kashyap, Rajan [VerfasserIn]
Holla, Bharath [VerfasserIn]
Bhattacharjee, Sagarika [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Eesha [VerfasserIn]
Mehta, Urvakhsh Meherwan [VerfasserIn]
Vaidya, Nilakshi [VerfasserIn]
Bharath, Rose Dawn [VerfasserIn]
Murthy, Pratima [VerfasserIn]
Basu, Debashish [VerfasserIn]
Nanjayya, Subodh Bhagyalakshmi [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Rajkumar Lenin [VerfasserIn]
Lourembam, Roshan [VerfasserIn]
Chakrabarti, Amit [VerfasserIn]
Kartik, Kamakshi [VerfasserIn]
Kalyanram, Kartik [VerfasserIn]
Kumaran, Kalyanaraman [VerfasserIn]
Krishnaveni, Ghattu [VerfasserIn]
Krishna, Murali [VerfasserIn]
Kuriyan, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
Kurpad, Sunita Simon [VerfasserIn]
Desrivieres, Sylvane [VerfasserIn]
Purushottam, Meera [VerfasserIn]
Barker, Gareth [VerfasserIn]
Orfanos, Dimitri Papadopoulos [VerfasserIn]
Hickman, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Heron, Jon [VerfasserIn]
Toledano, Mireille [VerfasserIn]
Schumann, Gunter [VerfasserIn]
Benegal, Vivek [VerfasserIn]
Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders and Addictions (cVEDA) [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Abuse
Adverse childhood experiences
Brain-behavior correlation
Default mode network
Functional MRI
Heterogeneity in resting state
Journal Article
Neurodevelopment

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Date Revised 21.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1017/S0033291724000710

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369994140