Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development of subcortical volumes in two European sites with four waves

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Contributors

  • Lea L. Backhausen - , Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital) (Author)
  • Juliane H. Fröhner - , Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Author)
  • Hervé Lemaître - , Université Paris-Saclay, Université de Bordeaux (Author)
  • Eric Artiges - , Université Paris-Saclay, EPS Barthélémy Durand (Author)
  • Marie Laure Palillère Martinot - , Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université (Author)
  • Megan M. Herting - , University of Southern California (Author)
  • Fabio Sticca - , University of Teacher Education in Special Needs (Author)
  • Tobias Banaschewski - , Heidelberg University  (Author)
  • Gareth J. Barker - , King's College London (KCL) (Author)
  • Arun L.W. Bokde - , Trinity College Dublin (Author)
  • Sylvane Desrivières - , King's College London (KCL) (Author)
  • Herta Flor - , Heidelberg University , University of Mannheim (Author)
  • Antoine Grigis - , Université Paris-Saclay (Author)
  • Hugh Garavan - , University of Vermont (Author)
  • Penny Gowland - , University of Nottingham (Author)
  • Andreas Heinz - , Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (Author)
  • Rüdiger Brühl - , National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB) (Author)
  • Frauke Nees - , Heidelberg University , University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel (Author)
  • Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos - , Université Paris-Saclay (Author)
  • Luise Poustka - , University of Göttingen (Author)
  • Sarah Hohmann - , Heidelberg University , University of Hamburg (Author)
  • Lauren Robinson - , King's College London (KCL) (Author)
  • Henrik Walter - , Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (Author)
  • Jeanne Winterer - , Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Free University of Berlin (Author)
  • Robert Whelan - , Trinity College Dublin (Author)
  • Gunter Schumann - , King's College London (KCL), Humboldt University of Berlin, Fudan University (Author)
  • Jean Luc Martinot - , Université Paris-Saclay (Author)
  • Michael N. Smolka - , Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Author)
  • Nora C. Vetter - , Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, MSB Medical School Berlin Hochschule für Gesundheit und Medizin (Author)

Abstract

Adolescent subcortical structural brain development might underlie psychopathological symptoms, which often emerge in adolescence. At the same time, sex differences exist in psychopathology, which might be mirrored in underlying sex differences in structural development. However, previous studies showed inconsistencies in subcortical trajectories and potential sex differences. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the subcortical structural trajectories and their sex differences across adolescence using for the first time a single cohort design, the same quality control procedure, software, and a general additive mixed modeling approach. We investigated two large European sites from ages 14 to 24 with 503 participants and 1408 total scans from France and Germany as part of the IMAGEN project including four waves of data acquisition. We found significantly larger volumes in males versus females in both sites and across all seven subcortical regions. Sex differences in age-related trajectories were observed across all regions in both sites. Our findings provide further evidence of sex differences in longitudinal adolescent brain development of subcortical regions and thus might eventually support the relationship of underlying brain development and different adolescent psychopathology in boys and girls.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere26574
JournalHuman brain mapping
Volume45
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 15 Feb 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 38401132
ORCID /0000-0002-8493-6396/work/173517030
ORCID /0000-0003-1477-5395/work/173517039
ORCID /0000-0001-6482-1316/work/173517041
ORCID /0000-0001-5398-5569/work/173517274

Keywords

Keywords

  • adolescence, longitudinal, neurodevelopment, sex differences, structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI), subcortical

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