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Maternal interpersonal affiliation is associated with adolescents’ brain structure and reward processing

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Schneider, S, Brassen, S, Bromberg, U, Banaschewski, T, Conrod, P, Flor, H, Gallinat, J, Garavan, Hugh +10 more·2012·Translational Psychiatry

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Considerable animal and human research has been dedicated to the effects of parenting on structural brain development, focusing on hippocampal and prefrontal areas. Conversely, although functional imaging studies suggest that the neural reward circuitry is involved in parental affection, little is known about mothers' interpersonal qualities in relation to their children's brain structure and function. Moreover, gender differences concerning the effect of maternal qualities have rarely been investigated systematically. In 63 adolescents, we assessed structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging as well as interpersonal affiliation in their mothers. This allowed us to associate maternal affiliation with gray matter density and neural responses during different phases of the well-established Monetary Incentive Delay task. Maternal affiliation was positively associated with hippocampal and orbitofrontal gray matter density. Moreover, in the feedback of reward hit as compared with reward miss, an association with caudate activation was found. Although no significant gender effects were observed in these associations, during reward feedback as compared with baseline, maternal affiliation was significantly associated with ventral striatal and caudate activation only in females. Our findings demonstrate that maternal interpersonal affiliation is related to alterations in both the brain structure and reward-related activation in healthy adolescents. Importantly, the pattern is in line with typical findings in depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, suggesting that a lack of maternal affiliation might have a role in the genesis of mental disorders.

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  • Higher gray matter density in the hippocampus (as well as in the orbitofrontal gyrus) was found in adolescents whose mothers had greater general interpersonal affiliation.

    “Higher gray matter density in the hippocampus (as well as in the orbitofrontal gyrus) was found in adolescents whose mothers had greater general interpersonal affiliation (Schneider et al., 2012), a finding consistent with work in animal models showing that behaviors denoting a pleasant experience (e.g., appetitive vocalizations while being tickled) were linked with hippocampal cell proliferation”

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Schneider, S., Brassen, S., Bromberg, U., Banaschewski, T., Conrod, P., Flor, H., Gallinat, J., Garavan, H., Heinz, A., Martinot, J.-L., Nees, F., Rietschel, M., Smolka, M. N., Ströhle, A., Struve, M., Schumann, G., Büchel, C., & the IMAGEN consortium
Affiliations
  • University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)
  • Central Institute of Mental Health (DE)
  • King's College London (GB)
  • Stiftung Charité (DE)
  • University of Vermont (US)
  • Université Paris-Sud (FR)
  • Neuroimaging Center (DE)
Corresponding author
Schneider, S
Venue
Translational Psychiatry
Published
2012-11-13
Volume
2
Issue
11
Pages
e182-e182
ISSN
2158-3188 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2012126977
Cited by
33
References
86
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2
FWCI
0.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Translational Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (01EV0711)
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01EV0711)
  • Medical Research Council (01EV0711, 93558)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Keywords
parenting, adolescents, brain structure, reward processing, gray matter density, hippocampus, orbitofrontal cortex, caudate nucleus, ventral striatum, monetary incentive delay task, gender differences, maternal love, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Brain, Caudate Nucleus, Female, Hippocampus, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Organ Size, Reward, Prefrontal Cortex, Nerve Fibers, Unmyelinated, Functional Neuroimaging

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