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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Psychiatry

Background:

  • Child maltreatment is known to affect brain development.
  • Limited understanding exists on how typical variations in parenting influence neurodevelopment.
  • Parenting styles can have long-term effects on a child's brain structure.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between harsh parenting and brain morphology in children.
  • To explore if co-occurring adversities explain these associations.
  • To examine the joint effect of both parents' harsh parenting on child brain development.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from 2,410 children in a population-based cohort.
  • Assessed harsh parenting reported by mothers and fathers at age 3.
  • Acquired structural and diffusion-weighted MRI scans at age 10 to measure brain morphology.

Main Results:

  • Maternal harsh parenting was associated with smaller total gray matter and cerebral white matter volumes.
  • A significant association was found between maternal harsh parenting and reduced amygdala volume.
  • These associations persisted after adjusting for confounding factors and were also seen with a combined parenting measure.

Conclusions:

  • Harsh parenting, even within common population ranges, shows a long-term association with global brain and amygdala volumes in preadolescents.
  • Adverse rearing environments are related to child brain morphology.
  • Findings highlight the impact of parenting on neurodevelopmental trajectories.