Parental punitive discipline and children's depressive symptoms: Associations with striatal volume.

ABSTRACT: Although parental harshness has been consistently linked with increased depressive symptoms in youth, its associations with children's brain structure are not well understood. The striatum has been strongly implicated in depression in adolescents and adults. In this study, we investigated the associations among parental harsh discipline, striatal volume, and depressive symptoms in children. Participants were parents and their 5- to 9-year-old children (63% female; 29% African American; 47% Hispanic/Latino). Parents completed questionnaires about their parenting behaviors and children's depressive symptoms. Children participated in a high-resolution, T1-weighted MRI scan, and volumetric data for the caudate, putamen, and nucleus accumbens were extracted (n = 20 with both parenting and MRI d

SUBMITTER: Merz EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6728208 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature