Cognitive control network connectivity in adolescent women with and without a parental history of depression

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• 作者：Peter C. Clasen ; Christopher G. Beevers ; Jeanette A. Mumford ; David M. Schnyer
• 关键词：Depression vulnerability ; Adolescence ; Parental history of depression ; Cognitive control network ; Resting-state fMRI ; Functional connectivity
• 刊名：Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• 出版年：January, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：7
• 期：Complete
• 页码：13-22
• 全文大小：1107 K

文摘

Background

Adolescent women with a parental history of depression are at high risk for the onset of major depressive disorder (MDD). Cognitive theories suggest this vulnerability involves deficits in cognitive control over emotional information. Among adolescent women with and without a parental history of depression, we examined differences in connectivity using resting state functional connectivity analysis within a network associated with cognitive control over emotional information.

Methods

Twenty-four depression-na茂ve adolescent women underwent resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). They were assigned to high-risk (n = 11) and low-risk (n = 13) groups based their parents鈥?depression history. Seed based functional connectivity analysis was used to examine group differences in connectivity within a network associated with cognitive control.

Results

High-risk adolescents had lower levels of connectivity between a right inferior prefrontal region and other critical nodes of the attention control network, including right middle frontal gyrus and right supramarginal gyrus. Further, greater severity of the parents鈥?worst episode of depression was associated with altered cognitive control network connectivity in their adolescent daughters.

Conclusions

Depressed parents may transmit depression vulnerability to their adolescent daughters via alterations in functional connectivity within neural circuits that underlie cognitive control of emotional information.