Neuroendocrine Stress Response in Female and Male Youths With Conduct Disorder and Associations With Early Adversity

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Beitragende

  • Anka Bernhard - , Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt (Autor:in)
  • Katharina Ackermann - , Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Universität Hamburg (Autor:in)
  • Anne Martinelli - , Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences (Autor:in)
  • Andreas G. Chiocchetti - , Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt (Autor:in)
  • Leonora Vllasaliu - , Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt (Autor:in)
  • Karen González-Madruga - , Middlesex University (Autor:in)
  • Molly Batchelor - , University of Southampton (Autor:in)
  • Nora M. Raschle - , Universität Basel, University of Zurich (Autor:in)
  • Helena Oldenhof - , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) (Autor:in)
  • Lucres M.C. Jansen - , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) (Autor:in)
  • Gregor Kohls - , Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Hochschulmedizin (Medizinische Fakultät und Universitätsklinikum), RWTH Aachen University (Autor:in)
  • Kerstin Konrad - , RWTH Aachen University (Autor:in)
  • Arne Popma - , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) (Autor:in)
  • Christina Stadler - , Universität Basel (Autor:in)
  • Graeme Fairchild - , University of Bath (Autor:in)
  • Christine M. Freitag - , Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt (Autor:in)

Abstract

Objective: Conduct disorder (CD) involves aggressive and antisocial behavior and is associated with blunted cortisol stress response in male youths. Far less is known about cortisol stress responsivity in female youths with CD or other neuroendocrine responses in both sexes. Although CD is linked to early adversity, the possibility that neuroendocrine alterations may mediate the relationship between early adversity and CD has not been systematically investigated. Method: Within the European FemNAT-CD multi-site study, salivary cortisol, testosterone, the testosterone/cortisol ratio, oxytocin, and psychological stress response to a standardized psychosocial stress test (the Trier Social Stress Test [TSST]), together with common pre- and postnatal environmental risk factors, were investigated in 130 pubertal youths with CD (63% female, 9-18 years of age) and 160 sex-, age-, and puberty-matched healthy controls (HCs). Results: The TSST induced psychological stress in both CD and HCs. In contrast, female and male youths with CD showed blunted cortisol, testosterone, oxytocin, and testosterone/cortisol stress responses compared to HCs. These blunted stress responses partly mediated the relationship between environmental risk factors and CD. Conclusion: Findings from this unique sample, including many female youths with CD, provide evidence for a widespread attenuated stress responsivity of not only stress hormones, but also sex hormones and neuropeptides in CD and its subgroups (eg, with limited prosocial emotions). Results are the first to demonstrate blunted neuroendocrine stress responses in both female and male youths with CD. Early adversity may alter neuroendocrine stress responsivity. Biological mechanisms should be investigated further to pave the way for personalized intervention, thereby improving treatments for CD.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)698-710
Seitenumfang13
Fachzeitschrift Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry : JAACAP
Jahrgang61
Ausgabenummer5
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Mai 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 34856340
unpaywall 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.11.023
WOS 000830861300019

Schlagworte

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Schlagwörter

  • conduct disorder, cortisol, oxytocin, stress response, testosterone, Oxytocin, Humans, Male, Hydrocortisone, Testosterone, Conduct Disorder, Adolescent, Stress, Psychological, Female, Child, Saliva, Conduct disorder, Cortisol, Stress response