Tracking Brain Development and Dimensional Psychiatric Symptoms in Children: A Longitudinal Population-Based Neuroimaging Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Children presenting with behavioral problems at an early age show differential subcortical and white matter development. Most neuroimaging models tend to explain brain differences observed in psychopathology as an underlying (causal) neurobiological substrate. However, the present work suggests that future neuroimaging studies showing effects that are pathogenic in nature should additionally explore the possibility of the downstream effects of psychopathology on the brain. PMID: 28817944 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - August 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Muetzel RL, Blanken LME, van der Ende J, El Marroun H, Shaw P, Sudre G, van der Lugt A, Jaddoe VWV, Verhulst FC, Tiemeier H, White T Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research