Megan M. Davis, Haina H. Modi, Haley V. Skymba, Katherine Haigler, Megan K. Finnegan, Eva H. Telzer, Karen D. Rudolph
{"title":"Neural Sensitivity to Peer Feedback and Depressive Symptoms: Moderation by Executive Function","authors":"Megan M. Davis, Haina H. Modi, Haley V. Skymba, Katherine Haigler, Megan K. Finnegan, Eva H. Telzer, Karen D. Rudolph","doi":"10.1002/dev.22515","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dev.22515","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Theories of adolescent development suggest that elevated neural sensitivity to social evaluation confers tradeoffs for adolescents’ wellbeing, promoting adaptation to changing social contexts but increasing risk for emotional distress and depression. This study investigated whether the association between neural processing of peer feedback and depressive symptoms depends on teacher-reported executive function (EF) ability in adolescent girls. Girls showed activation to negative and positive peer feedback in regions implicated in social–emotional processing that interacted with EF to predict depressive symptoms. Specifically, activation predicted more depression in youth with poorer EF but less depression in youth with better EF, suggesting that the impact of increased social sensitivity may depend on youths’ ability to regulate this sensitivity in adaptive ways.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141455806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marta Zammuto, Cristina Ottaviani, Dora Bianchi, Fiorenzo Laghi, Antonia Lonigro
{"title":"From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School-Aged Children","authors":"Marta Zammuto, Cristina Ottaviani, Dora Bianchi, Fiorenzo Laghi, Antonia Lonigro","doi":"10.1002/dev.22516","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dev.22516","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Studies have shown a significant association between effective parasympathetic modulation of the heart and processes linked to social cognition. Particularly, Quintana and colleagues documented a relation between vagally-mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) and performance on a theory of mind (ToM) task, namely, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), in a sample of university students. The purpose of the present study was to test whether such result would extend to a sample of school-aged children (7–9 years old) using the child version of the RMET. In addition, the Eyes Test Revised was administered as it is more suitable to evaluate ToM during childhood. Results supported the positive association between vmHRV and ToM abilities, replicating and extending previous results obtained in young adults. The current study adds to the existing literature pointing to HRV as a putative biomarker of social cognition abilities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141455805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parental Exposure to Morphine Before Conception Decreases Morphine and Cocaine-Induced Locomotor Sensitization in Male Offspring","authors":"Amirhossein Heidari, Arman Hajikarim-Hamedani, Saereh Hosseindoost, Yekta Ghane, Mitra Sadat-Shirazi, Mohammad-Reza Zarrindast","doi":"10.1002/dev.22514","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dev.22514","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Repeated exposure to abused drugs leads to reorganizing synaptic connections in the brain, playing a pivotal role in the relapse process. Additionally, recent research has highlighted the impact of parental drug exposure before gestation on subsequent generations. This study aimed to explore the influence of parental morphine exposure 10 days prior to pregnancy on drug-induced locomotor sensitization. Adult male and female Wistar rats were categorized into morphine-exposed and control groups. Ten days after their last treatment, they were mated, and their male offspring underwent morphine, methamphetamine, cocaine, and nicotine-induced locomotor sensitization tests. The results indicated increased locomotor activity in both groups after drug exposure, although the changes were attenuated in morphine and cocaine sensitization among the offspring of morphine-exposed parents (MEPs). Western blotting analysis revealed altered levels of D2 dopamine receptors (D2DRs) in the prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens of the offspring from MEPs. Remarkably, despite not having direct in utero drug exposure, these offspring exhibited molecular alterations affecting morphine and cocaine-induced sensitization. The diminished sensitization to morphine and cocaine suggested the development of a tolerance phenotype in these offspring. The changes in D2DR levels in the brain might play a role in these adaptations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141455807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributions of dysfunctional plasticity mechanisms to the development of atypical perceptual processing","authors":"Stacy Moppert, Eduardo Mercado III","doi":"10.1002/dev.22504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22504","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Experimental studies of sensory plasticity during development in birds and mammals have highlighted the importance of sensory experiences for the construction and refinement of functional neural circuits. We discuss how dysregulation of experience-dependent brain plasticity can lead to abnormal perceptual representations that may contribute to heterogeneous deficits symptomatic of several neurodevelopmental disorders. We focus on alterations of somatosensory processing and the dynamic reorganization of cortical synaptic networks that occurs during early perceptual development. We also discuss the idea that the heterogeneity of strengths and weaknesses observed in children with neurodevelopmental disorders may be a direct consequence of altered plasticity mechanisms during early development. Treating the heterogeneity of perceptual developmental trajectories as a phenomenon worthy of study rather than as an experimental confound that should be overcome may be key to developing interventions that better account for the complex developmental trajectories experienced by modern humans.</p>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141251308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molly E. Hale, Kayley E. Morrow, Jianjie Xu, Zhuo Rachel Han, Assaf Oshri, Anne Shaffer, Margaret O. Caughy, Cynthia Suveg
{"title":"RSA instability in mothers of preschoolers and adolescents is related to observations of supportive parenting behaviors","authors":"Molly E. Hale, Kayley E. Morrow, Jianjie Xu, Zhuo Rachel Han, Assaf Oshri, Anne Shaffer, Margaret O. Caughy, Cynthia Suveg","doi":"10.1002/dev.22513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22513","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; a measure of respiratory modulation of vagal control of heart rate) is a dynamic process. For mothers, RSA functioning has been associated with depressive symptoms and coincides with supportive parenting. However, research has largely focused on RSA suppression (i.e., difference score from rest to stress task). The present study examined depressive symptoms and supportive parenting with RSA instability—a dynamic measure of the magnitude of RSA change across a task. In two samples of mothers (<i>N</i> = 210), one with preschoolers (Study 1: <i>n</i> = 108, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 30.68 years, <i>SD</i> = 6.06, 47.0% Black, 43.0% White) and one with adolescents (Study 2: <i>n</i> = 102, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 35.51, <i>SD</i> = 6.51, 75.2% Black), RSA instability was calculated during an interaction task. In both studies, instrumental supportive parenting behaviors were negatively related to RSA instability. Findings provide preliminary support for RSA instability as an indicator of physiological dysregulation for mothers.</p>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dev.22513","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141251283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tricia K. Neppl, Olivia N. Diggs, Brenda J. Lohman, Jeenkyoung Lee, Daniel Russell, Anne M. Bronikowski
{"title":"Associations between adversity in the family of origin and hair cortisol concentration in adulthood","authors":"Tricia K. Neppl, Olivia N. Diggs, Brenda J. Lohman, Jeenkyoung Lee, Daniel Russell, Anne M. Bronikowski","doi":"10.1002/dev.22512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22512","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current study examined associations between parental adversities as experienced in adolescence and hair cortisol concentration (HCC) 26 years later (<i>n</i> = 47). Specifically, bivariate correlations and linear regressions were used to examine harsh parenting as well as parental economic pressure, emotional distress, and body mass index (BMI) when their adolescent was between 15 and 16 years old (parent average age 43). HCC was measured when the adolescent was an adult (average 42 years old), at a similar age to when their parent(s) first participated in the study. We also assessed their economic pressure, emotional distress, obesity, and perceived stress in adulthood. For results across generations, parental economic pressure experienced during adolescence was significantly related to HCC when these adolescents were adults. None of the adult economic pressure, emotional distress, BMI, and perceived stress variables were associated with their HCC. Interestingly, there were significant associations among adult perceived stress, economic pressure, emotional distress, and obesity. Thus, the association between parental economic pressure and adult HCC is independent of adult adversities. Results highlight early economic adversity as a possible childhood stressor that has implications throughout the life course.</p>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dev.22512","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141251282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brianna L. Minshall, Rachel A. Skipper, Collin A. Riddle, Catherine F. Wasylyshyn, Dragana I. Claflin, Jennifer J. Quinn
{"title":"Sex differences in acute early life stress-enhanced fear learning in adult rats","authors":"Brianna L. Minshall, Rachel A. Skipper, Collin A. Riddle, Catherine F. Wasylyshyn, Dragana I. Claflin, Jennifer J. Quinn","doi":"10.1002/dev.22511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22511","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) present with a spectrum of debilitating anxiety symptoms resulting from exposure to trauma. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with anxiety and PTSD compared to men; however, the reason for this vulnerability remains unknown. We conducted four experiments where we first demonstrated a female vulnerability to stress-enhanced fear learning (SEFL) with a moderate, acute early life stress (aELS) exposure (4 footshocks in a single session), compared to a more intense aELS exposure (15 footshocks in a single session) where males and females demonstrated comparable SEFL. Next, we demonstrated that this female vulnerability does not result from differences in footshock reactivity or contextual fear conditioning during the aELS exposure. Finally, using gonadectomy or sham surgeries in adult male and female rats, we showed that circulating levels of gonadal steroid hormones at the time of adult fear conditioning do not explain the female vulnerability to SEFL. Additional research is needed to determine whether this vulnerability can be explained by organizational effects of gonadal steroid hormones or differences in sex chromosome gene expression. Doing so is critical for a better understanding of increased female vulnerability to certain psychiatric diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dev.22511","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141251281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?","authors":"Emilie Bochud-Fragnière, Gianni Lonchampt, Paola Bittolo, Giada Ehrensperger, Antonella Rita Circelli, Nicole Antonicelli, Floriana Costanzo, Deny Menghini, Stefano Vicari, Pamela Banta Lavenex, Pierre Lavenex","doi":"10.1002/dev.22503","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dev.22503","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Williams syndrome (WS) and Down syndrome (DS) are two neurodevelopmental disorders with distinct genetic origins characterized by mild to moderate intellectual disability. Individuals with WS or DS exhibit impaired hippocampus-dependent place learning and enhanced striatum-dependent spatial response learning. Here, we used the Weather Prediction Task (WPT), which can be solved using hippocampus- or striatum-dependent learning strategies, to determine whether individuals with WS or DS exhibit similar profiles outside the spatial domain. Only 10% of individuals with WS or DS solved the WPT. We further assessed whether a concurrent memory task could promote reliance on procedural learning to solve the WPT in individuals with WS but found that the concurrent task did not improve performance. To understand how the probabilistic cue–outcome associations influences WPT performance, and whether individuals with WS or DS can ignore distractors, we assessed performance using a visual learning task with differing reward contingencies, and a modified WPT with unpredictive cues. Both probabilistic feedback and distractors negatively impacted the performance of individuals with WS or DS. These findings are consistent with deficits in hippocampus-dependent learning and executive functions, and reveal the importance of congruent feedback and the minimization of distractors to optimize learning in these two populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dev.22503","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141161038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Henrik Andreas Eckermann, Micaela Lugones, Daniel Abdala, Horacio Roge, Carolina de Weerth
{"title":"Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers","authors":"Henrik Andreas Eckermann, Micaela Lugones, Daniel Abdala, Horacio Roge, Carolina de Weerth","doi":"10.1002/dev.22502","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dev.22502","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Environmental influences before and during pregnancy significantly impact offspring development. This study investigates open research questions regarding the associations between maternal early life stress (ELS), prenatal psychosocial stress, prenatal hair cortisol (HC), and birth outcomes in Argentinian women. Data on ELS, prenatal life events, HC (two samples representing first and second half of pregnancy), and birth outcomes were collected from middle-class Argentinian women (<i>N</i> = 69) upon delivery. Linear mixed models indicated that HC increased from the first half to the second half of pregnancy with considerable variability in the starting values and slopes between individuals. Mothers who experienced more ELS, were taller, or more educated, tended to show lower increases in HC. Older age was positively related to HC increases. Our data did not suggest an interaction between ELS and prenatal life events in relation to HC. We found that the change in HC was most likely negatively associated with birth weight. Our data are most compatible with either a weak or the absence of an association between ELS or prenatal life events and absolute values of HC. Mothers with stronger increases in hair cortisol tended to have newborns with slightly lower birth weight. Hence, ELS and birthweight may either have been related to changes in cortisol exposure during pregnancy or to factors that influence accumulation or retention of cortisol in hair.</p>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dev.22502","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141161014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of chronic fluoxetine treatment in adolescence or adulthood on context fear memory and perineuronal nets","authors":"Diana Chan, Kathryn D. Baker, Rick Richardson","doi":"10.1002/dev.22501","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dev.22501","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, such as fluoxetine (Prozac), are commonly prescribed pharmacotherapies for anxiety. Fluoxetine may be a useful adjunct because it can reduce the expression of learned fear in adult rodents. This effect is associated with altered expression of perineuronal nets (PNNs) in the amygdala and hippocampus, two brain regions that regulate fear. However, it is unknown whether fluoxetine has similar effects in adolescents. Here, we investigated the effect of fluoxetine exposure during adolescence or adulthood on context fear memory and PNNs in the basolateral amygdala (BLA), the CA1 subregion of the hippocampus, and the medial prefrontal cortex in rats. Fluoxetine impaired context fear memory in adults but not in adolescents. Further, fluoxetine increased the number of parvalbumin (PV)-expressing neurons surrounded by a PNN in the BLA and CA1, but not in the medial prefrontal cortex, at both ages. Contrary to previous reports, fluoxetine did not shift the percentage of PNNs toward non-PV cells in either the BLA or CA1 in the adults, or adolescents. These findings demonstrate that fluoxetine differentially affects fear memory in adolescent and adult rats but does not appear to have age-specific effects on PNNs.</p>","PeriodicalId":11086,"journal":{"name":"Developmental psychobiology","volume":"66 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dev.22501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141161035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}