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Complex emotion processing and early life adversity in the Healthy Brain Network sample.

Emily J Furtado¹, M Catalina Camacho², Jenna H Chin³

¹the Institute of Child Development at University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

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Early life adversity impacts mental health by altering neural emotion processing. Inconsistent discipline, a form of early adversity, was linked to heightened Ventral Attention Network (VAN) activity during emotional scenes.

Keywords:

Adolescence Adversity Emotion processing Naturalistic fMRI

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Background:

Early life adversity (ELA) is linked to adverse mental health outcomes.
Neural emotion processing alterations are a potential mechanism for ELA's impact.
Understanding ELA's neural correlates is crucial for targeted interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between various ELA indicators and neural socio-emotional processing.
To characterize brain network activation in response to socio-emotional stimuli in children with ELA.
To identify specific ELA factors associated with neural responses.

Main Methods:

Utilized data from 521 children (ages 5-15) in the Healthy Brain Network Biobank.
Examined activation in the Default Mode Network (DMN), Ventral Attention Network (VAN), Cingulo-Opercular Network (CON), and amygdala.
Employed linear regression to assess associations between ELA indices (e.g., inconsistent discipline, parent psychopathology) and neural activation during emotional scenes.

Main Results:

Found significant activation in DMN, VAN, CON, and amygdala during socio-emotional scenes (sad, bonding, conflict, fear).
Increased inconsistent discipline correlated with greater VAN activation during sad or emotional scenes.
No significant associations were found between other ELA indices (social status, financial insecurity, neighborhood disadvantage, negative experiences, parent psychopathology) and neural activation.

Conclusions:

The DMN, VAN, CON, and amygdala are involved in socio-emotional processing, aligning with existing research.
Inconsistent discipline may increase sensitivity to parent-child separation cues.
Unpredictability in ELA might be more strongly linked to complex neural emotion processing than other socioeconomic or event-based adversities.