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Puberty in the corpus callosum

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Chavarria, M.C., Sánchez, F.J., Chou, Y.-Y., Thompson, P.M., Luders, E.·2014·Neuroscience

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Adolescence is an important period for brain development. White matter growth is influenced by sex hormones such as testosterone, and the corpus callosum-the largest white matter structure in the human brain-may change structurally during the hormone-laden period of adolescence. Little is known about puberty's relationship to structural brain development, even though pubertal stage may better predict cognitive and behavioral maturity than chronological age. We therefore aimed to establish the presence and direction of pubertal effects on callosal anatomy. For this purpose, we applied advanced surface-based mesh-modeling to map correlations between callosal thickness and pubertal stage in a large and well-matched sample of 124 children and adolescents (62 female and 62 male) aged 5-18years from a normative database. When linking callosal anatomy to pubertal status, only positive correlations reached statistical significance, indicating that callosal growth advances with puberty. In tests of differences in callosal anatomy at different stages of puberty, callosal growth was concentrated in different locations depending on the pubertal stage. Changing levels of circulating sex hormones during different phases of puberty likely contributed to the observed effects, and further research is clearly needed. Direct quantification of sex hormone levels and regional fiber connectivity-ideally using fiber tractography-will reveal whether hormones are the main drivers of callosal change during puberty. These callosal findings may lead to hypotheses regarding cortical changes during puberty, which may promote or result from changes in inter-hemispheric connectivity.

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  • In addition to age, pubertal status and hormone titers significantly interact with sex to affect white matter volume in multiple tracts in the human brain, including those connecting higher association cortices.

    “In addition to age, pubertal status and hormone titers significantly interact with sex to affect white matter volume in multiple tracts in the human brain, including those connecting higher association cortices (Asato et al., 2010; Chavarria et al., 2014; De Bellis et al., 2001; Herting et al., 2012; Peper et al., 2008; Perrin et al., 2008; Perrin et al., 2009).”

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Authors
Chavarria, M. C., Sánchez, F. J., Chou, Y.-Y., Thompson, P. M., & Luders, E.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (US)
  • University of Southern California (US)
Venue
Neuroscience
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-04
Volume
265
Pages
1-8
ISSN
0306-4522 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1981680881
Cited by
46
References
51
Citations by year
2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1
FWCI
3.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (n01ns092319-000, n01ns092317-000, n01ns092320-002, n01ns92315-15-0-1, n01hd23343-8-0-0, n01ns092314-002, n01ns092316-000, n01mh90002-26-0-0)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (N01-MH09-0002, N01-MH 90002)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (N01-NS-9-2317, N01-NS-92314, N01-NS-92319, N01-NS 92315, N01 NS092316, N01 NS092320, N01 NS092314, N01 NS092315, N01-NS 92316, N01 NS092317, N01 NS092319, N01 NS-9-2320)
  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (P41EB015922)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (N01-HD023343)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
puberty, corpus callosum, adolescence, brain development, sex hormones, testosterone, pubertal stage, interhemispheric connectivity
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Corpus Callosum, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Puberty

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