Associations between prenatal, childhood, and adolescent stress and variations in white-matter properties in young men.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Previous studies have shown that both pre- and post-natal adversities, the latter including exposures to stress during childhood and adolescence, explain variation in structural properties of white matter (WM) in the brain. While previous studies have examined effects of independent stress exposures within one developmental period, such as childhood, we examine effects of stress across development using data from a prospective longitudinal study. More specifically, we ask how stressful events during prenatal development, childhood, and adolescence relate to variation in WM properties in early adulthood in young men recruited from a birth cohort.

Method

Using data from 393 mother-son pairs from a community-based birth cohort from England (Avon Longitudinal Study of

SUBMITTER: Jensen SKG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5911246 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature