Associations between early adrenarche, affective brain function and mental health in children

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1282-1290

  Whittle, Sarah ^a,b   Simmons, Julian G ^b   Byrne, Michelle L ^b   Strikwerda Brown, Cherie ^a   Kerestes, Rebecca ^a   Seal, Marc L ^c   Olsson, Craig A ^a,c,d   Dudgeon, Paul ^b   Mundy, Lisa K ^a,c,e   Patton, George C ^a,c,e   Allen, Nicholas B ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenarche; Dehydroepiandrosterone; Emotion; Externalizing symptoms; Puberty; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE;

ADRENARCHE; AFFECT; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADRENARCHE; AFFECT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH;

EID: 84941264804     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsv014     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Achenbach, T.M. (1999). Child Behavior Checklist. In: Kazdin, A.E., editor. Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Armitage, P., Berry, G., Matthews, J. (2002). Statistical Methods in Medical Research. Oxford: Blackwell.
3. Ashburner, J. (2007). A fast diffeomorphic image registration algorithm. NeuroImage, 38, 95-113.
4. Auchus, R.J., Rainey, W.E. (2004). Adrenarche-physiology, biochemistry and human disease. Clinical Endocrinology, 60 (3), 288-96.
5. Bechara, A., Damasio, A.R. (2005). The somatic marker hypothesis: a neural theory of economic decision. Games and Economic Behavior, 52 (2), 336-72.
6. Bellani, M., Garzitto, M., Brambilla, P. (2012). Functional MRI studies in disruptive behaviour disorders. Epidemiology And Psychiatric Sciences, 21 (01), 31-3.
7. Benjamini, Y., Hochberg, Y. (1995). Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological), 57 (1), 289-300.
8. Benjamini, Y., Yekutieli, D. (2001). The control of false discovery rate under dependency. Annals of Statistics, 29, 1165-88.
9. Berenbaum, S.A., Resnick, S.M. (1997). Early androgen effects on aggression in children and adults with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 22 (7), 505-15.
10. Bjork, J.M., Chen, G., Smith, A.R., Hommer, D.W. (2010). Incentive-elicited mesolimbic activation and externalizing symptomatology in adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51 (7), 827-37.
11. Blakemore, S.J., Burnett, S., Dahl, R.E. (2010). The role of puberty in the developing adolescent brain. Human Brain Mapping, 31 (6), 926-33.
12. Craig, A.D. (2002). How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3 (8), 655-66.
13. Critchley, H.D., Wiens, S., Rotshtein, P., Öhman, A., Dolan, R.J. (2004). Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness. Nature Neuroscience, 7 (2), 189-95.
14. Cservenka, A., Fair, D.A., Nagel, B.J. (2014). Emotional processing and brain activity in youth at high risk for alcoholism. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
15. Dmitrieva, T., Oades, R.D., Hauffa, B., Eggers, C. (2001). Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate and corticotropin levels are high in young male patients with conduct disorder: comparisons for growth factors, thyroid and gonadal hormones. Neuropsychobiology, 43 (3), 134-40.
16. Dorn, L.D., Hitt, S.F., Rotenstein, D. (1999a). Biopsychological and cognitive differences in children with premature vs on-time adrenarche. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 153(2), 137-46.
17. Dorn, L.D., Hitt, S.F., Rotenstein, D. (1999b). Biopsychological and cognitive differences in children with premature vs on-time adrenarche. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 153(2), 137-46.
18. Dorn, L.D., Rose, S.R., Rotenstein, D., et al. (2008). Differences in endocrine parameters and psychopathology in girls with premature adrenarche versus on-time adrenarche. Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 21 (5), 439-48.
19. Ducharme, J.-R., Forest, M.G., Peretti, E.D., Sempe, M., Collu, R., Bertrand, J. (1976). Plasma adrenal and gonadal sex steroids in human pubertal development. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 42 (3), 468-76.
20. Elliott, R., Friston, K.J., Dolan, R.J. (2000a). Dissociable neural responses in human reward systems. The Journal of Neuroscience, 20(16), 6159-65.
21. Elliott, R., Rubinsztein, J.S., Sahakian, B.J., Dolan, R.J. (2000b). Selective attention to emotional stimuli in a verbal go/no-go task: an fMRI study. Neuroreport, 11(8), 1739-44.
22. Ellis, B.J., Essex, M.J. (2007). Family environments, adrenarche, and sexual maturation: a longitudinal test of a life history model. Child Development, 78 (6), 1799-817.
23. Etkin, A., Egner, T., Kalisch, R. (2011). Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15 (2), 85-93.
24. Fairchild, G., Hagan, C.C., Walsh, N.D., Passamonti, L., Calder, A.J., Goodyer, I.M. (2013). Brain structure abnormalities in adolescent girls with conduct disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54 (1), 86-95.
25. Gaffrey, M.S., Luby, J.L., Belden, A.C., Hirshberg, J.S., Volsch, J., Barch, D.M. (2011). Association between depression severity and amygdala reactivity during sad face viewing in depressed preschoolers: an fMRI study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 129 (1), 364-70.
26. Goddings, A.L., Burnett Heyes, S., Bird, G., Viner, R.M., Blakemore, S.J. (2012). The relationship between puberty and social emotion processing. Developmental Science, 15 (6), 801-11.
27. Goldin, P.R., McRae, K., Ramel, W., Gross, J.J. (2008). The neural bases of emotion regulation: reappraisal and suppression of negative emotion. Biological Psychiatry, 63 (6), 577-86.
28. Graber, J.A., Lewinsohn, P.M., Seeley, J.R., Brooks-Gunn, J. (1997). Is psychopathology associated with the timing of pubertal development? Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36 (12), 1768-76.
29. Hayes, A.F. (2009). Beyond Baron and Kenny: statistical mediation analysis in the new millennium. Communication Monographs, 76 (4), 408-20.
30. Hulvershorn, L.A., Cullen, K., Anand, A. (2011). Toward dysfunctional connectivity: a review of neuroimaging findings in pediatric major depressive disorder. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 5 (4), 307-28.
31. Kaltiala-Heino, R., Marttunen, M., Rantanen, P., Rimpela, M. (2003). Early puberty is associated with mental health problems in middle adolescence. Social Science and Medicine, 57 (6), 1055-64.
32. Kovaks, M. (2004). Children's Depression Inventory. Toronto, Canada: Multi-Health Systems.
33. Ladouceur, C.D. (2012). Neural systems supporting cognitive-affective interactions in adolescence: the role of puberty and implications for affective disorders. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 65.
34. Lee, B.-T., Seok, J.-H., Lee, B.-C., et al. (2008). Neural correlates of affective processing in response to sad and angry facial stimuli in patients with major depressive disorder. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 32 (3), 778-85.
35. Maldjian, J.A., Laurienti, P.J., Kraft, R.A., Burdette, J.H. (2003). An automated method for neuroanatomic and cytoarchitectonic atlas-based interrogation of fMRI data sets. NeuroImage, 19 (3), 1233-1239.
36. Mende-Siedlecki, P., Said, C.P., Todorov, A. (2013). The social evaluation of faces: a meta-nalysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8 (3), 285-99.
37. Monk, C., Klein, R., Telzer, E., et al. (2008). Amygdala and nucleus accumbens activation to emotional facial expressions in children and adolescents at risk for major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 165 (1), 90-8.
38. Morris, N.M., Udry, J.R. (1980). Validation of a self-administered instrument to assess stage of adolescent development. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 9 (3), 271-80.
39. Mundy, L.K., Julian, G.S., Nicholas, B.A., et al. (2013). Study protocol: the Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study (CATS). BMC pediatrics, 13 (1), 160.
40. Narum, S.R. (2006). Beyond Bonferroni: less conservative analyses for conservation genetics. Conservation Genetics, 7 (5), 783-7.
41. Nguyen, T.-V., McCracken, J.T., Ducharme, S., et al. (2013). Interactive effects of dehydroepiandrosterone and testosterone on cortical thickness during early brain development. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (26), 10840-8.
42. Passarotti, A.M., Sweeney, J.A., Pavuluri, M.N. (2009). Neural correlates of incidental and directed facial emotion processing in adolescents and adults. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4 (4), 387-98.
43. Patton, G.C., Olsson, C., Bond, L., et al. (2008). Predicting female depression across puberty: a two-nation longitudinal study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47 (12), 1424-32.
44. Paus, T., Keshavan, M., Giedd, J.N. (2008). Why do many psychiatric disorders emerge during adolescence? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9 (12), 947-57.
45. Peper, J.S., Hulshoff Pol, H.E., Crone, E.A., van Honk, J. (2011). Sex steroids and brain structure in pubertal boys and girls: a mini-review of neuroimaging studies. Neuroscience, 191 (0), 28-37.
46. Rushworth, M.F.S., Noonan, M.P., Boorman, E.D., Walton, M.E., Behrens, T.E. (2011). Frontal cortex and reward-guided learning and decision-making. Neuron, 70 (6), 1054-69.
47. Simmons, J.G., Sarah, L.W., George, C.P., et al. (2014). Study protocol: Imaging brain development in the Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study (iCATS). BMC pediatrics, 14 (1), 115.
48. Soma, K.K., Rendon, N.M., Boonstra, R., Albers, H.E., Demas, G.E. (2015). DHEA effects on brain and behavior: insights from comparative studies of aggression. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 145, 261-72.
49. Song, X., Dong, Z., Long, X., et al. (2011). REST: a toolkit for resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data processing. PLoS One, 6 (9), e25031.
50. Spence, S.H. (1997). Structure of anxiety symptoms among children: a confirmatory factor-analytic study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106 (2), 280-97.
51. Spence, S.H. (1998). A measure of anxiety symptoms among children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36 (5), 545-66.
52. Sripada, R.K., Marx, C.E., King, A.P., et al. (2013). DHEA enhances emotion regulation neurocircuits and modulates memory for emotional stimuli. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38 (9), 1798-807.
53. Stattin, H., Magnusson, D. (2003). Pubertal Maturation in Female Development. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
54. Susman, E.J., Granger, D.A., Murowchick, E., Ponirakis, A., Worrall, B.K. (1996). Gonadal and adrenal hormones developmental transitions and aggressive behaviora. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 794 (1), 18-30.
55. Taylor, K.S., Seminowicz, D.A., Davis, K.D. (2009). Two systems of resting state connectivity between the insula and cingulate cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 30 (9), 2731-45.
56. Tottenham, N., Tanaka, J.W., Leon, A.C., et al. (2009). The NimStim set of facial expressions: judgments from untrained research participants. Psychiatry Research, 168 (3), 242-9.
57. Townsend, J.D., Eberhart, N.K., Bookheimer, S.Y., et al. (2010). fMRI activation in the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex in unmedicated subjects with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 183 (3), 209-17.
58. Van Goozen, S.H., Matthys, W., Cohen-Kettenis, P.T., Thijssen, J.H., van Engeland, H. (1998). Adrenal androgens and aggression in conduct disorder prepubertal boys and normal controls. Biological Psychiatry, 43 (2), 156-8.
59. van Goozen, S.H., van den Ban, E., Matthys, W., Cohen-Kettenis, P.T., Thijssen, J.H., van Engeland, H. (2000). Increased adrenal androgen functioning in children with oppositional defiant disorder: a comparison with psychiatric and normal controls. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39 (11), 1446-51.
60. Vytal, K., Hamann, S. (2010). Neuroimaging support for discrete neural correlates of basic emotions: a voxel-based meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 (12), 2864-85.
61. Ward, B.D. (2000). Simultaneous Interference for fMRI Data. AFNI AlphaSim Documentation. Milwaukee, WI: Biophysics Research Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin.
62. Whittle, S., Yücel, M., Lorenzetti, V., et al. (2012). Pituitary volume mediates the relation-ship between pubertal timing and depressive symptoms during adolescence. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37 (7), 881-91.