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Title: | Long-term Influences of Prenatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms on the Amygdala?Prefrontal Circuitry of the Offspring From Birth to Early Childhood | Authors: | Lee A. Poh J.S. Wen D.J. Guillaume B. Chong Y.-S. Shek L.P. Fortier M.V. Qiu A. |
Keywords: | Amygdala?cortical circuitry Cortical thickness Prenatal maternal depressive symptoms Structural covariance Structural magnetic resonance imaging Structural network |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | Elsevier Inc | Citation: | Lee A., Poh J.S., Wen D.J., Guillaume B., Chong Y.-S., Shek L.P., Fortier M.V., Qiu A. (2019). Long-term Influences of Prenatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms on the Amygdala?Prefrontal Circuitry of the Offspring From Birth to Early Childhood. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 4 (11) : 940 - 947. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | Background: Prenatal maternal depression may have long-term impacts on amygdala-cortical development. This study explored associations of prenatal maternal depressive symptoms on the amygdala-cortical structural covariance of the offspring from birth to early childhood, derived from a longitudinal birth cohort. Methods: Structural magnetic resonance imaging was performed to obtain the amygdala volume and cortical thickness at each time point. Prenatal maternal depressive symptoms were measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale at 26 weeks of pregnancy. Regression analysis was used to examine the effects of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale on a structural coupling between the amygdala volume and cortical thickness at birth (n = 167) and 4.5 years of age (n = 199). Results: Girls whose mothers had high prenatal maternal depressive symptoms showed a positive coupling between the amygdala volume and insula thickness at birth (β = .617, p = .001) but showed a negative coupling between the amygdala volume and inferior frontal thickness at 4.5 years of age (β = −.369, p = .008). No findings were revealed in boys at any time point. Conclusions: The development of the amygdala–prefrontal circuitry is vulnerable to environmental factors related to depression. Such a vulnerability might be sex dependent. © 2019 | Source Title: | Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/185867 | ISSN: | 24519022 |
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