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Gong, Weikang, Rolls, Edmund T., Du, Jingnan, Feng, Jianfeng and Cheng, Wei (2021) Brain structure is linked to the association between family environment and behavioral problems in children in the ABCD study. Nature Communications, 12 (1). 3769. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23994-0
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23994-0
Abstract
Children's behavioral problems have been associated with their family environments. Here, we investigate whether specific features of brain structures could relate to this link. Using structural magnetic resonance imaging of 8756 children aged 9-11 from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Developmental study, we show that high family conflict and low parental monitoring scores are associated with children's behavioral problems, as well as with smaller cortical areas of the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and middle temporal gyrus. A longitudinal analysis indicates that psychiatric problems scores are associated with increased family conflict and decreased parental monitoring 1 year later, and mediate associations between the reduced cortical areas and family conflict, and parental monitoring scores. These results emphasize the relationships between the brain structure of children, their family environments, and their behavioral problems.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QP Physiology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Computer Science | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Adolescent psychology -- Research, Child psychology -- Research, Behavior disorders in children -- Research, Behavior disorders in adolescence -- Research, Neuropsychology -- Research, Developmental neurobiology, Cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive psychology, Brain -- Research, Prefrontal cortex, Temporal lobes, Brain -- Magnetic resonance imaging | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Communications | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2041-1723 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 18 June 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article Number: | 3769 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-021-23994-0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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