The impact of child abuse on the neurobiology of self-processing in depressed adolescents

dc.contributor.authorEngstrom, M., Liu, G., Santana-Gonzalez, C., Teoh, J. Y., Harms, M., Koy, K., & Quevedo, K.
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-23T16:47:28Z
dc.date.available2021-06-23T16:47:28Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractChild abuse is linked to lifetime psychopathology including abnormal self-processing. Given self-processing maturation in adolescence, we tested duration, presence, and abuse accumulation's impact upon self-processing neurobiology among depressed youth with (N = 54) and without an abuse history (N = 40). Youth evaluated positive and negative self-descriptors across four points of view in the scanner. Regression analyses showed that longer abuse duration (in days) was associated with lower activity in inferior temporal (e.g. insula, fusiform & parahippocampus), striatal, cerebellar and midbrain structures when processing negative self-descriptors with the least activity in youth exposed to 6+ abuse years. Abuse presence vs. absence was linked to higher neural activity. However, youth exposed to a single abuse instance to 3 years of abuse might drive that relative neural hyperactivity. Results support: 1) the toxic stress model of blunted overall neuro-reactivity underpinning emotion, sensorimotor gating, and social cognition during negative stimuli as an adaptation to pervasively toxic environments and 2) the differential impact of acute versus chronic stress upon neurophysiological indices. Finally, child abuse duration might impact these ancillary and higher socioemotional processes differently among depressed youth primarily for negative but not positive self-processing.en_US
dc.identifier.citationEngstrom, M., Liu, G., Santana-Gonzalez, C., Teoh, J. Y., Harms, M., Koy, K., & Quevedo, K. (2021). The impact of child abuse on the neurobiology of self-processing in depressed adolescents. Neurobiology of stress, 14, 100310.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352289521000187
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5134
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherNeurobiology of Stressen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectSelf-processingen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectNeuroimagingen_US
dc.subjectHippocampusen_US
dc.subjectadolescentsen_US
dc.titleThe impact of child abuse on the neurobiology of self-processing in depressed adolescentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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