Journal of affective disorders · 2020
Limbic white matter structural integrity at 3 months prospectively predicts negative emotionality in 9-month-old infants: a preliminary study.
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Banihashemi Layla, Bertocci Michele A, Alkhars Hussain M, Versace Amelia, Northrup Jessie B, Lee Vincent K, Schmithorst Vincent J, Samolyk Alyssa, Taylor Megan, English Gabrielle E, Stiffler Richelle S, Aslam Haris A, Bonar Lisa, Panigrahy Ashok, Hipwell Alison E, Phillips Mary L
Аннотация
BACKGROUND: Little is known about how early alterations in white matter relate to clinically relevant behaviors such as emotional dysregulation. Thus, our goal was to examine how the white matter structural integrity of key limbic (i.e., uncinate fasciculus and cingulum) and commissural (i.e., forceps minor) bundles in 3-month-old infants prospectively predicts emotional regulation behaviors at 9 months.
METHODS: Three-month-old infants underwent multishell diffusion-weighted imaging. Following image processing, tractography was performed for each tract within each infant's native space (n=20). Measures of white matter integrity, including microstructure and morphology, were extracted from each tract. At 9 months, negative emotionality (NE) and positive emotionality (PE) were elicited using Laboratory Assessment of Temperament tasks. Elastic net regressions were performed for variable selection, which included white matter integrity variables from each of the 3 tracts, along with several covariates, including age, sex, use of public assistance, and the mother's depressive symptoms. Outcome variables were NE and PE composite scores evaluated in two separate models.
RESULTS: Notably, following hierarchical regression using elastic net-selected variables, uncinate structural integrity was the most robust predictor of NE (ß=-0.631, p=0.005).
LIMITATIONS: The sample size of our study is a limitation, however, as a preliminary study, our goal was to describe our findings to inform future, larger studies.
CONCLUSIONS: Greater uncinate structural integrity predicted lower NE, suggesting that greater uncinate structural integrity at 3 months allows greater emotional regulation capacity at 9 months. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate prospective brain-to-emotional behavior relationships in infants.
METHODS: Three-month-old infants underwent multishell diffusion-weighted imaging. Following image processing, tractography was performed for each tract within each infant's native space (n=20). Measures of white matter integrity, including microstructure and morphology, were extracted from each tract. At 9 months, negative emotionality (NE) and positive emotionality (PE) were elicited using Laboratory Assessment of Temperament tasks. Elastic net regressions were performed for variable selection, which included white matter integrity variables from each of the 3 tracts, along with several covariates, including age, sex, use of public assistance, and the mother's depressive symptoms. Outcome variables were NE and PE composite scores evaluated in two separate models.
RESULTS: Notably, following hierarchical regression using elastic net-selected variables, uncinate structural integrity was the most robust predictor of NE (ß=-0.631, p=0.005).
LIMITATIONS: The sample size of our study is a limitation, however, as a preliminary study, our goal was to describe our findings to inform future, larger studies.
CONCLUSIONS: Greater uncinate structural integrity predicted lower NE, suggesting that greater uncinate structural integrity at 3 months allows greater emotional regulation capacity at 9 months. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate prospective brain-to-emotional behavior relationships in infants.