Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging最新文献

{"title":"Normative Modeling of Thalamic Nuclear Volumes and Characterization of Lateralized Volume Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease Versus Schizophrenia.","authors":"Taylor R Young, Vinod Jangir Kumar, Manojkumar Saranathan","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.08.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Thalamic nuclei facilitate a wide range of complex behaviors, emotions, and cognition and have been implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and schizophrenia (SCZ). The aim of this work was to establish novel normative models of thalamic nuclear volumes and their laterality indices and investigate their changes in SCZ and AD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Volumes of bilateral whole thalami and 10 thalamic nuclei were generated from T1 magnetic resonance imaging data using a state-of-the-art novel segmentation method in healthy control participants (n = 2374) and participants with early mild cognitive impairment (n = 211), late mild cognitive impairment (n = 113), AD (n = 88), and SCZ (n = 168). Normative models for each nucleus were generated from healthy control participants while controlling for sex, intracranial volume, and site. Extreme z-score deviations (|z| > 1.96) and z-score distributions were compared across phenotypes. z Scores were associated with clinical descriptors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Increased infranormal and decreased supranormal z scores were observed in SCZ and AD. z Score shifts representing reduced volumes were observed in most nuclei in SCZ and AD, with strong overlap in the bilateral pulvinar, medial dorsal, and centromedian nuclei. Shifts were larger in AD, with evidence of a left-sided preference in early mild cognitive impairment while a predilection for right thalamic nuclei was observed in SCZ. The right medial dorsal nucleus was associated with disorganized thought and daily auditory verbal hallucinations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In AD, thalamic nuclei are more severely and symmetrically affected, while in SCZ, the right thalamic nuclei are more affected. We highlight the right medial dorsal nucleus, which may mediate multiple symptoms of SCZ and is affected early in the disease course.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142057541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Deep Learning-Derived Transdiagnostic Signature Indexing Hypoarousal and Impulse Control: Implications for Treatment Prediction in Psychiatric Disorders.","authors":"Hannah Meijs, Jurjen J Luykx, Nikita van der Vinne, Rien Breteler, Evian Gordon, Alexander T Sack, Hanneke van Dijk, Martijn Arns","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Psychiatric disorders are traditionally classified within diagnostic categories, but this approach has limitations. The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) constitute a research classification system for psychiatric disorders based on dimensions within domains that cut across these psychiatric diagnoses. The overall aim of RDoC is to better understand mental illness in terms of dysfunction in fundamental neurobiological and behavioral systems, leading to better diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A unique electroencephalographic feature, referred to as spindling excessive beta, has been studied in relation to impulse control and sleep as part of the arousal/regulatory system RDoC domain. Here, we studied electroencephalographic frontal beta activity as a potential transdiagnostic biomarker capable of diagnosing and predicting impulse control and sleep problems.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We showed in the first dataset (n = 3279) that the probability of having spindling excessive beta, classified by a deep learning algorithm, was associated with poor sleep maintenance and low daytime impulse control. Furthermore, in 2 additional, independent datasets (iSPOT-A [International Study to Predict Optimized Treatment in ADHD], n = 336; iSPOT-D [International Study to Predict Optimized Treatment in Depression], n = 1008), we revealed that conventional frontocentral beta power and/or spindling excessive beta probability, referred to as Brainmarker-III, is associated with a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with remission to methylphenidate in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a sex-specific manner, and with remission to antidepressant medication in adults with major depressive disorder in a drug-specific manner.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results demonstrate the value of the RDoC approach in psychiatry research for the discovery of biomarkers with diagnostic and treatment prediction capacities.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141984157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Sensitivity of the Mini-Mental State Examination to Detect Objective Cognitive Side Effects Induced by Electroconvulsive Therapy: Results From the Dutch ECT Consortium.","authors":"Dore Loef, Philip F P van Eijndhoven, Sigfried N T M Schouws, Arjen J C Slooter, Nikki Janssen, Rob M Kok, Bart P F Rutten, Eric van Exel, Didi Rhebergen, Mardien L Oudega, Roel J T Mocking, Indira Tendolkar, Annemiek Dols, Esmée Verwijk","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Monitoring cognitive side effects following electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is crucial for balancing side effects and clinical effectiveness. Yet, evidence-based guidelines on cognitive testing following ECT are lacking. A frequently used test in global ECT practice is the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). We examined the change of the MMSE score and its performance in identifying a decline in predefined neuropsychological measures sensitive to ECT-induced cognitive changes: verbal recall and verbal fluency.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Mean MMSE scores before and 1 week after ECT were compared using a Wilcoxon signed rank test. The Reliable Change Index was calculated for all cognitive measures to indicate whether a participant's change in score from pre- to post-ECT was considered statistically significant. The sensitivity and specificity of the MMSE were calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 426 patients with depression from 5 sites were included from the Dutch ECT Consortium. Mean (SD) MMSE score increased significantly from 26.2 (3.9) before ECT to 26.8 (3.8) after ECT (p = .002). After ECT, 36 patients (8.5%) showed a significant decline in MMSE score. The sensitivity of the MMSE in identifying patients who experienced a significant decline in verbal recall or verbal fluency ranged from 3.6% to 11.1%. The specificity of the MMSE in identifying patients who did not experience a significant decline in verbal recall or verbal fluency ranged from 95.6% to 96.6%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Given the very low sensitivity of the MMSE, we propose reconsidering the prominence of the MMSE in ECT practice and cognitive monitoring guidelines, advocating for a more comprehensive approach to assess ECT-induced cognitive changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141918371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Cognition and Functional Connectivity in Early and Chronic Schizophrenia.","authors":"Saige Rutherford, Carly A Lasagna, Scott D Blain, Andre F Marquand, Thomas Wolfers, Ivy F Tso","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) experience impairments in social cognition that contribute to poor functional outcomes. However, mechanisms of social cognitive dysfunction in SZ remain poorly understood, which impedes the design of novel interventions to improve outcomes. In this preregistered project, we examined the representation of social cognition in the brain's functional architecture in early and chronic SZ.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study contains 2 parts: a confirmatory and an exploratory portion. In the confirmatory portion, we identified resting-state connectivity disruptions evident in early and chronic SZ. We performed a connectivity analysis using regions associated with social cognitive dysfunction in early and chronic SZ to test whether aberrant connectivity observed in chronic SZ (n = 47 chronic SZ and n = 52 healthy control participants) was also present in early SZ (n = 71 early SZ and n = 47 healthy control participants). In the exploratory portion, we assessed the out-of-sample generalizability and precision of predictive models of social cognition. We used machine learning to predict social cognition and established generalizability with out-of-sample testing and confound control.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results revealed decreases between the left inferior frontal gyrus and the intraparietal sulcus in early and chronic SZ, which were significantly associated with social and general cognition and global functioning in chronic SZ and with general cognition and global functioning in early SZ. Predictive modeling revealed the importance of out-of-sample evaluation and confound control.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This work provides insights into the functional architecture in early and chronic SZ and suggests that inferior frontal gyrus-intraparietal sulcus connectivity could be a prognostic biomarker of social impairments and a target for future interventions (e.g., neuromodulation) focused on improved social functioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Structural Brain Differences in the Alzheimer's Disease Continuum: Insights Into the Heterogeneity From a Large Multisite Neuroimaging Consortium.","authors":"Tavia E Evans, Natalia Vilor-Tejedor, Gregory Operto, Carles Falcon, Albert Hofman, Agustin Ibáñez, Sudha Seshadari, Louis C S Tan, Michael Weiner, Suverna Alladi, Udunna Anazodo, Juan Domingo Gispert, Hieab H H Adams","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Neurodegenerative diseases require collaborative, multisite research to comprehensively grasp their complex and diverse pathological progression; however, there is caution in aggregating global data due to data heterogeneity. In the current study, we investigated brain structure across stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and how relationships vary across sources of heterogeneity.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using 6 international datasets (N > 27,000), associations of structural neuroimaging markers were investigated in relation to the AD continuum via meta-analysis. We investigated whether associations varied across elements of magnetic resonance imaging acquisition, study design, and populations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Modest differences in associations were found depending on how data were acquired; however, patterns were similar. Preliminary results suggested that neuroimaging marker-AD relationships differ across ethnic groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Diversity in data offers unique insights into the neural substrate of AD; however, harmonized processing and transparency of data collection are needed. Global collaborations should embrace the inherent heterogeneity that exists in the data and quantify its contribution to research findings at the meta-analytical stage.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141861917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sensorimotor Feedback Control Dysfunction as a Marker of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.","authors":"Jonathon R Howlett, Heekyeong Park, Martin P Paulus","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized not only by its direct association with traumatic events but also by a potential deficit in inhibitory control across emotional, cognitive, and sensorimotor domains. Recent research has shown that a continuous sensorimotor feedback control task, the rapid assessment of motor processing paradigm, can yield reliable measures of individual sensorimotor control performance. This study used this paradigm to investigate control deficits in PTSD compared with both a healthy volunteer group and a non-PTSD psychiatric comparison group.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We examined control processing using the rapid assessment of motor processing paradigm in a sample of 40 individuals with PTSD, matched groups of 40 individuals with mood and anxiety complaints, and 40 healthy control participants. We estimated K_p (drive) and K_d (damping) parameters using a proportional-derivative control modeling approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The K_p parameter was lower in the PTSD group than in the healthy control (Cohen's d = 0.86) and mood and anxiety (Cohen's d = 0.63) groups. After controlling for color-word inhibition, K_p remained lower in the PTSD group than in the healthy control (Cohen's d = 0.79) and mood and anxiety (Cohen's d = 0.62) groups. Mediation analysis showed that K_d significantly mediated the relationship between PTSD and control deficits in the K_p parameter, with 96% of the effect being mediated by K_d.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings underscore the potential of using dynamic control paradigms to elucidate the control dysfunctions in PTSD and suggest that different psychiatric conditions may distinctly influence subcomponents of sensorimotor control.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11754525/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141763220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Neurotransmitter, and Neural Network Abnormalities and Mania: Elucidating Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Therapeutic Effect of the Ketogenic Diet in Bipolar Disorder.","authors":"Zachary Freyberg, Ana C Andreazza, Colleen A McClung, Mary L Phillips","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is growing interest in the ketogenic diet as a treatment for bipolar disorder (BD), and there are promising anecdotal and small case study reports of efficacy. However, the neurobiological mechanisms by which diet-induced ketosis might ameliorate BD symptoms remain to be determined, particularly in manic and hypomanic states-defining features of BD. Identifying these mechanisms will provide new markers to guide personalized interventions and provide targets for novel treatment developments for individuals with BD. In this critical review, we describe recent findings highlighting 2 types of neurobiological abnormalities in BD: 1) mitochondrial dysfunction and 2) neurotransmitter and neural network functional abnormalities. We link these abnormalities to mania/hypomania and depression in BD and then describe the biological underpinnings by which the ketogenic diet may have a beneficial effect in individuals with BD. We end the review by describing approaches that can be employed in future studies to elucidate the neurobiology that underlies the therapeutic effect of the ketogenic diet in BD. Doing this may provide marker predictors to identify individuals who will respond well to the ketogenic diet, as well as offer neural targets for novel treatment developments for BD.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11754533/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141763219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychometric Properties of a Novel Affective Bias Task and Its Application in Clinical and Nonclinical Populations.","authors":"Prathik Kalva, Kourtney Kanja, Brian A Metzger, Xiaoxu Fan, Brian Cui, Bailey Pascuzzi, John Magnotti, Madaline Mocchi, Raissa Mathura, Kelly R Bijanki","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To mitigate limitations of self-reported mood assessments, we introduce a novel affective bias task. The task quantifies instantaneous emotional state by leveraging the phenomenon of affective bias, in which people interpret external emotional stimuli in a manner consistent with their current emotional state. This study establishes task stability in measuring and tracking depressive symptoms in clinical and nonclinical populations. Initial assessment in a large nonclinical sample established normative ratings. Depressive symptoms were measured and compared with task performance in a nonclinical sample, as well as in a clinical cohort of individuals who were undergoing surgical evaluation for severe epilepsy. In both cohorts, a stronger negative affective bias was associated with a higher Beck Depression Inventory-II score. The affective bias task exhibited high stability and interrater reliability as well as construct validity in predicting depression levels in both cohorts, suggesting that the task is a reliable proxy for mood and a diagnostic tool for detecting depressive symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11747923/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141735982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Manifold Learning Uncovers Nonlinear Interactions Between the Adolescent Brain and Environment That Predict Emotional and Behavioral Problems.","authors":"Erica L Busch, May I Conley, Arielle Baskin-Sommers","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>To progress adolescent mental health research beyond our present achievements-a complex account of brain and environmental risk factors without understanding neurobiological embedding in the environment-we need methods to uncover relationships between the developing brain and real-world environmental experiences.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We investigated associations between brain function, environments, and emotional and behavioral problems using participants from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (n = 2401 female). We applied manifold learning, a promising technique for uncovering latent structure from high-dimensional biomedical data such as functional magnetic resonance imaging. Specifically, we developed exogenous PHATE (potential of heat-diffusion for affinity-based trajectory embedding) (E-PHATE) to model brain-environment interactions. We used E-PHATE embeddings of participants' brain activation during emotional and cognitive processing tasks to predict individual differences in cognition and emotional and behavioral problems both cross-sectionally and longitudinally.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>E-PHATE embeddings of participants' brain activation and environments at baseline showed moderate-to-large associations with total, externalizing, and internalizing problems at baseline, across several subcortical regions and large-scale cortical networks, compared with the zero-to-small effects achieved by voxelwise data or common low-dimensional embedding methods. E-PHATE embeddings of the brain and environment at baseline were also related to emotional and behavioral problems 2 years later. These longitudinal predictions showed a consistent moderate effect in the frontoparietal and attention networks.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The embedding of the adolescent brain in the environment yields enriched insight into emotional and behavioral problems. Using E-PHATE, we demonstrated how the harmonization of cutting-edge computational methods with longstanding developmental theories advances the detection and prediction of adolescent emotional and behavioral problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11729530/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141621973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Influence of Maternal and Paternal Parenting on Adolescent Brain Structure.","authors":"Qingwen Ding, Xinying Li, Divyangana Rakesh, Siya Peng, Jiahua Xu, Jie Chen, Nengzhi Jiang, Yu Luo, Xuebing Li, Shaozheng Qin, Sarah Whittle","doi":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.06.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.06.013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescents raised in families with different maternal and paternal parenting combinations exhibit variations in neurocognition and psychopathology; however, whether neural differences exist remains unexplored. This study used a longitudinal twin sample to delineate how different parenting combinations influence adolescent brain structure and to elucidate the genetic contribution.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cohort of 216 twins participated in parenting assessments during early adolescence and underwent magnetic resonance imaging scanning during middle adolescence. We utilized latent profile analysis to distinguish between various maternal and paternal parenting profiles and subsequently investigated their influences on brain anatomy. Biometric analysis was applied to assess genetic influences on brain structure, and associations with internalizing symptoms were explored.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In early adolescence, 4 parenting profiles emerged, which were characterized by levels of harshness and hostility in one or both parents. Compared with adolescents in \"catparent\" families (low harshness/hostility in both parents), those raised in \"tigermom\" families (harsh/hostile mother only) exhibited a smaller nucleus accumbens volume and larger temporal cortex surface area; those in \"tigerdad\" families demonstrated larger thalamus volumes; and those in \"tigerparent\" families displayed smaller volumes in the midanterior corpus callosum. Genetic risk factors contributed significantly to the observed brain structural heterogeneity and internalizing symptoms. However, the influences of parenting profiles and brain structure on internalizing symptoms were not significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings underscore distinct brain structural features linked to maternal and paternal parenting combinations, particularly in terms of subcortical volume and cortical surface area. This study suggests an interdependent role of maternal and paternal parenting in shaping adolescent neurodevelopment.</p>","PeriodicalId":93900,"journal":{"name":"Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141499930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}