Neuroanatomical correlates of familial risk-for-depression and religiosity/spirituality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine potential neural substrates that underlie the interplay between religiosity/spirituality and risk-for-depression. A new wave of data from a longitudinal, three generation study of individuals at high risk for depression is presented. In addition to providing new longitudinal data, we extend previous findings by employing additional (surface-based) methods for examining cortical volume.

Measures participants and methods

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were collected on 106 second and third generation family members at high or low risk for major depression defined by the presence or absence of depression in the first generation. Religiosity/spirituality measures were collected at the same time as the MRI scans and comprised self-report ratings of pe

SUBMITTER: Svob C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5475330 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature