Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample

Objective: Early life adversity (ELA) has shown to have negative impacts on mental health. One possible mechanism is through alterations in neural emotion processing. We sought to characterize how multiple indices of ELA were related to naturalistic neural socio-emotional processing. Method: In 521...

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Main Authors: Emily J. Furtado, M. Catalina Camacho, Jenna H. Chin, Deanna M. Barch
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Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
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author Emily J. Furtado
M. Catalina Camacho
Jenna H. Chin
Deanna M. Barch
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description Objective: Early life adversity (ELA) has shown to have negative impacts on mental health. One possible mechanism is through alterations in neural emotion processing. We sought to characterize how multiple indices of ELA were related to naturalistic neural socio-emotional processing. Method: In 521 5–15-year-old participants from the Healthy Brain Network Biobank, we identified scenes that elicited activation of the Default Mode Network (DMN), Ventral Attention Network (VAN), Cingulo-Opercular Network (CON) and amygdala, all of which are networks shown to be associated with ELA. We used linear regression to examine associations between activation and ELA: negative parenting, social status, financial insecurity, neighborhood disadvantage, negative experiences, and parent psychopathology. Results: We found DMN, VAN, CON and amygdala activation during sad/emotional, bonding, action, conflict, sad, or fearful scenes. Greater inconsistent discipline was associated with greater VAN activation during sad or emotional scenes. Conclusion: Findings suggest that the DMN, VAN, CON networks and the amygdala support socio-emotional processing consistent with prior literature. Individuals who experienced inconsistent discipline may have greater sensitivity to parent–child separation signals. Since no other ELA–activation associations were found, it is possible that unpredictability may be more strongly associated with complex neural emotion processing than socio-economic status or negative life events.
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spelling doaj-art-2ff1a70429844ffb805e07dfaed4ea852025-08-20T02:48:58ZengElsevierDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience1878-92932024-12-017010146910.1016/j.dcn.2024.101469Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sampleEmily J. Furtado0M. Catalina Camacho1Jenna H. Chin2Deanna M. Barch3the Institute of Child Development at University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USADepartment of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Corresponding author.Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USADepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USAObjective: Early life adversity (ELA) has shown to have negative impacts on mental health. One possible mechanism is through alterations in neural emotion processing. We sought to characterize how multiple indices of ELA were related to naturalistic neural socio-emotional processing. Method: In 521 5–15-year-old participants from the Healthy Brain Network Biobank, we identified scenes that elicited activation of the Default Mode Network (DMN), Ventral Attention Network (VAN), Cingulo-Opercular Network (CON) and amygdala, all of which are networks shown to be associated with ELA. We used linear regression to examine associations between activation and ELA: negative parenting, social status, financial insecurity, neighborhood disadvantage, negative experiences, and parent psychopathology. Results: We found DMN, VAN, CON and amygdala activation during sad/emotional, bonding, action, conflict, sad, or fearful scenes. Greater inconsistent discipline was associated with greater VAN activation during sad or emotional scenes. Conclusion: Findings suggest that the DMN, VAN, CON networks and the amygdala support socio-emotional processing consistent with prior literature. Individuals who experienced inconsistent discipline may have greater sensitivity to parent–child separation signals. Since no other ELA–activation associations were found, it is possible that unpredictability may be more strongly associated with complex neural emotion processing than socio-economic status or negative life events.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929324001300AdversityEmotion processingNaturalistic fMRIAdolescence
spellingShingle Emily J. Furtado
M. Catalina Camacho
Jenna H. Chin
Deanna M. Barch
Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Adversity
Emotion processing
Naturalistic fMRI
Adolescence
title Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample
title_full Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample
title_fullStr Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample
title_full_unstemmed Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample
title_short Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample
title_sort complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the healthy brain network sample
topic Adversity
Emotion processing
Naturalistic fMRI
Adolescence
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929324001300
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