Early infant white matter tract microstructure predictors of subsequent change in emotionality and emotional regulation.

ABSTRACT: There are rapid changes in negative and positive emotionality (NE, PE) and emotional regulation (e.g., soothability) during the first year of life. Understanding the neural basis of these changes during maturation can enhance the understanding of the etiology of early psychopathology. Our goal was to determine how measures of white matter (WM) microstructure in tracts connecting key emotion-related neural networks, including the forceps minor (FM), cingulum bundle (CB), and uncinate fasciculus (UF) interconnecting the default mode network (DMN), salience network (SN), and central executive network (CEN), can predict developmental change in infant emotionality and emotional regulation. We used Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) measures together with conventional dif

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12356172 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature