The relationship between adolescents' externalizing and internalizing symptoms and brain development over a period of three years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescence is a crucial period for both brain maturation and the emergence of mental health disorders. Associations between brain morphology and internalizing/externalizing symptomatology have been identified in clinical or at-risk samples, but age-related developmental differences were rarely considered. The current study investigated the longitudinal relationship between internalizing/externalizing symptoms and brain development in the absence of psychiatric disorders during early and late adolescence.

Methods

98 healthy adolescents within two cohorts (younger: 9 years, older: 12 years) participated in annual assessments for three years; a clinical assessment measuring their externalizing and internalizing symptoms (SDQ) and an MRI assessment measuring their br

SUBMITTER: Jarvers I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668616 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature