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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38388187/an-in-depth-analysis-of-the-polyvagal-theory-in-light-of-current-findings-in-neuroscience-and-clinical-research
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REVIEW
Andrea Manzotti, Cristina Panisi, Micol Pivotto, Federico Vinciguerra, Matteo Benedet, Federica Brazzoli, Silvia Zanni, Alberto Comassi, Sara Caputo, Francesco Cerritelli, Marco Chiera
The polyvagal theory has led to the understanding of the functions of the autonomic nervous system in biological development in humans, since the vagal system, a key structure within the polyvagal theory, plays a significant role in addressing challenges of the mother-child dyad. This article aims to summarize the neurobiological aspects of the polyvagal theory, highlighting some of its strengths and limitations through the lens of new evidence emerging in several research fields-including comparative anatomy, embryology, epigenetics, psychology, and neuroscience-in the 25 years since the theory's inception...
February 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38372503/the-impact-of-poor-fetal-growth-and-chronic-hyperpalatable-diet-exposure-in-adulthood-on-hippocampal-function-and-feeding-patterns-in-male-rats
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amanda Brondani Mucellini, Daniela Pereira Laureano, Márcio Bonesso Alves, Roberta Dalle Molle, Mariana Balbinot Borges, Ana Paula da Ascenção Salvador, Irina Pokhvisneva, Gisele Gus Manfro, Patrícia Pelufo Silveira
Poor fetal growth affects eating behavior and the mesocorticolimbic system; however, its influence on the hippocampus has been less explored. Brain insulin sensitivity has been linked to developmental plasticity in response to fetal adversity and to cognitive performance following high-fat diet intake. We investigated whether poor fetal growth and exposure to chronic hyperpalatable food in adulthood could influence the recognition of environmental and food cues, eating behavior patterns, and hippocampal insulin signaling...
February 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38356136/assessing-the-motivational-value-of-infant-video-clips-on-chimpanzees-through-discrimination-learning-task
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuri Kawaguchi, Masaki Tomonaga
The motivational value of visual infant stimuli in humans is considered to encourage parental behavior. To explore the evolutionary roots of this preference for infants, we examined the reward value of conspecific infant videos compared to adult ones in nine chimpanzees. We employed a novel approach, a simultaneous discrimination task with differential sensory reinforcement. In Experiments 1 and 2, we tested if watching conspecific infant videos is more rewarding than watching adult ones. Participants were required to discriminate between two visual stimuli by a touch panel task...
February 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38351459/the-last-stage-of-development-the-restructuring-and-plasticity-of-the-cortex-during-adolescence-especially-at-puberty
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Janice M Juraska
There is considerable evidence of reorganization in the prefrontal cortex during adolescence in humans, as well as in rodents, where the cellular basis can be explored. Studies from my laboratory in the rat medial prefrontal cortex are reviewed here. In general, growth predominates before puberty. Pruning mainly occurs at puberty and after with decreases in the number of synapses, dendrites, and neurons. Perineuronal nets, extracellular structures that control plasticity, are pruned peripubertally only in female rats, which may further open the adolescent prefrontal cortex to environmental influences...
February 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38351305/sex-differences-in-autism-like-behavior-and-dopaminergic-neurons-in-substantia-nigra-of-juvenile-mice-prenatally-exposed-to-valproate
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Zarate-Lopez, Andrea P Garzón-Partida, Oscar Gonzalez-Perez, Alma Y Gálvez-Contreras
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication and repetitive and restricted behaviors. Sex dimorphism in the brain, including midbrain dopaminergic circuits, can explain differences in social behavior impairment and stereotypic behaviors between male and female individuals with ASD. These abnormal patterns may be due to alterations in dopamine synthesis in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (SN). We used an autism-like mouse model by prenatal valproic acid (VPA) exposure...
February 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38339781/letter-to-the-editor-does-fetal-movement-shape-the-maternal-brain
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LETTER
Kathy Ayala, Kristin Voegtline, Helena Jv Rutherford
Here, we debate that fetal behavior may contribute to the dynamic changes observed in the maternal brain during the perinatal period. We call for future research to explore this perspective to understand the complex maternal-fetal relationship and how fetal signals influence the preparation for parenthood.
February 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131245/behavioral-responses-to-natural-rewards-in-developing-male-and-female-rats
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sasha Oak, Christine Nguyen, Paolaenid Rodney-Hernández, Millie Rincón-Cortés
Reward deficits are a hallmark feature of multiple psychiatric disorders and often recapitulated in rodent models useful for the study of psychiatric disorders, including those employing early life stress. Moreover, rodent studies have shown sex differences during adulthood in response to natural and drug rewards under normative conditions and in stress-based rodent models. Yet, little is known about the development of reward-related responses under normative conditions, including how these may differ in rats of both sexes during early development...
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131244/emotion-dysregulation-and-reward-responsiveness-as-predictors-of-autonomic-reactivity-to-an-infant-cry-task-among-substance-using-pregnant-and-postpartum-women
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nadia Bounoua, Alexandra R Tabachnick, Rina D Eiden, Madelyn H Labella, Mary Dozier
Maternal substance use may interfere with optimal parenting, lowering maternal responsiveness during interactions with their children. Previous work has identified maternal autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity to parenting-relevant stressors as a promising indicator of real-world parenting behaviors. However, less is known about the extent to which individual differences in emotion dysregulation and reward processing, two mechanisms of substance use, relate to maternal ANS reactivity in substance-using populations...
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131243/cues-associated-with-a-single-ethanol-exposure-elicit-conditioned-corticosterone-responses-in-adolescent-male-but-not-female-sprague-dawley-rats
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anny Gano, Thaddeus M Barney, Andrew S Vore, Jamie E Mondello, Elena I Varlinskaya, Ricardo M Pautassi, Terrence Deak
It has been shown that ethanol-induced interleukin-6 (IL-6) in adult male Sprague-Dawley rats was sensitized by environmental stimuli paired with ethanol and was accompanied by a conditioned increase in corticosterone (CORT). Adolescent males showed ethanol-induced IL-6 conditioning more readily than adults. The present studies examined whether female adolescents display IL-6 conditioning and whether adolescents of either sex show CORT conditioning. Male and female (N = 212, n = 6-10) adolescent (postnatal day 33-40) rats were given ethanol (2 g/kg intraperitoneal injection; the unconditioned stimulus), either paired with a lavender-scented novel context (the conditioned stimulus) or explicitly unpaired from context...
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131242/women-are-expected-to-smile-preliminary-evidence-for-the-role-of-gender-in-the-neurophysiological-processing-of-adult-emotional-faces-in-3-year-old-children
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christel M Portengen, Caroline M M Junge, Anneloes L van Baar, Joyce J Endendijk
Children form stereotyped expectations about the appropriateness of certain emotions for men versus women during the preschool years, based on cues from their social environments. Although ample research has examined the development of gender stereotypes in children, little is known about the neural responses that underlie the processing of gender-stereotyped emotions in children. Therefore, the current study examined whether 3-year-olds differ in the neural processing of emotional stimuli that violate gender stereotypes (i...
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131241/selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors-during-pregnancy-and-lactation-a-scoping-review-of-effects-on-the-maternal-and-infant-gut-microbiome
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REVIEW
Katelyn Desorcy-Scherer, Hannah P Fricke, Laura L Hernandez
Perinatal mood disorders are a tremendous burden to childbearing families and treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants is increasingly common. Exposure to SSRIs may affect serotonin signaling and ultimately, microbes that live in the gut. Health of the gut microbiome during pregnancy, lactation, and early infancy is critical, yet there is limited evidence to describe the relationship between SSRI exposure and gut microbiome status in this population. The purpose of this Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)-compliant scoping review is to assess evidence and describe key concepts regarding whether SSRI exposure affects the maternal and infant gut microbiome...
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131240/introduction-to-the-special-issue-on-threat-and-safety-learning
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kalina J Michalska, Elizabeth Moroney, Steve S Lee
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131239/adolescent-morphine-exposure-changes-the-endogenous-vlpag-opioid-response-to-inflammatory-pain-in-rats
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kawsar Alami, Elmira Ghasemi, Saeed Semnanian, Hossein Azizi
Adolescence is one of the most critical periods for brain development, and exposure to morphine during this period can have long-life effects on pain-related behaviors. The opioid system in the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is highly vulnerable to drug exposure. However, the impact of adolescent morphine exposure (AME) on the endogenous opioid system in the PAG is currently unknown. This study aims to investigate the long-lasting effects of AME on the endogenous opioid system and its involvement in altering nociceptive behaviors...
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131238/adulthood-effects-of-developmental-exercise-in-rats
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emma C Perez, Kevin H Gehm, Valeria Gaume Lobo, Marcelle Olvera, J Leigh Leasure
Exercise is known to promote efficient function of stress circuitry. The developing brain is malleable and thus exercise during adolescence could potentially exert lasting beneficial effects on the stress response that would be detectable in adulthood. The current study determined whether adolescent wheel running was associated with reduced stress response in adulthood, 6 weeks after cessation of exercise. Male and female adolescent rats voluntarily ran for 6 weeks and then were sedentary for 6 weeks prior to 10 days of chronic restraint stress in adulthood...
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38131237/maternal-psychological-risk-and-the-neural-correlates-of-infant-face-processing-a-latent-profile-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kathryn M Wall, Francesca Penner, Jaclyn Dell, Amanda Lowell, Marc N Potenza, Linda C Mayes, Helena J V Rutherford
Maternal psychological factors, including anxiety, depression, and substance use, may negatively affect parenting. Previous works with mothers have often assessed each of these factors in isolation despite their frequent co-occurrence. Psychological factors have also been associated with neural processing of facial stimuli, specifically the amplitude (i.e., size) and latency (i.e., timing) of the face-specific N170 event-related potential. In the current study, 106 mothers completed measures assessing maternal psychological factors-anxiety, depression, and substance use...
January 2024: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38010309/continuity-and-change-in-neural-plasticity-through-embryonic-morphogenesis-fetal-activity-dependent-synaptogenesis-and-infant-memory-consolidation
#36
REVIEW
Phan Luu, Don M Tucker
There is an apparent continuity in human neural development that can be traced to venerable themes of vertebrate morphogenesis that have shaped the evolution of the reptilian telencephalon (including both primitive three-layered cortex and basal ganglia) and then the subsequent evolution of the mammalian six-layered neocortex. In this theoretical analysis, we propose that an evolutionary-developmental analysis of these general morphogenetic themes can help to explain the embryonic development of the dual divisions of the limbic system that control the dorsal and ventral networks of the human neocortex...
December 2023: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38010308/hair-and-plasma-cortisol-throughout-the-first-3%C3%A2-years-of-development-in-infant-rhesus-macaques-macaca-mulatta
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexander J Pritchard, John P Capitanio, Laura Del Rosso, Brenda McCowan, Jessica J Vandeleest
Cortisol expression has been demonstrated to have variation across development in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). There exists contradictory evidence for the nature of this change, and age at which it occurs, across biological sample types. Consequently, we lack a cohesive understanding for cortisol concentrations across the development of a major human health translational model. We examined hair cortisol concentrations over the first 3 years of life for 49 mother-reared infant macaques from mixed-sex outdoor units at the California National Primate Research Center...
December 2023: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38010307/adolescents-hair-cortisol-concentrations-during-covid-19-evidence-from-two-longitudinal-studies-in-the-netherlands-and-the-united-states
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefania V Vacaru, Anna M Parenteau, Sydney Yi, Jennifer A Silvers, Camelia E Hostinar, Carolina de Weerth
BACKGROUND: Prolonged stress exposure is associated with alterations in cortisol output. The COVID-19 pandemic represented a stressor for many, including children. However, a high-quality caregiving environment may protect against psychological problems and possibly against elevations in cortisol. We examined adolescents' physiological stress responses to the pandemic and the role of attachment in two longitudinal samples from the Netherlands and the United States (https://aspredicted...
December 2023: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38010306/fingerprint-patterns-in-relation-to-an-altered-neurodevelopment-in-patients-with-autism-spectrum-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Klaudia Kyselicová, Dóra Dukonyová, Ivan Belica, Dominika Sónak Ballová, Viktória Jankovičová, Daniela Ostatníková
Dermatoglyphic patterns are permanently established and matured before the 24th week of gestation. Their frequencies and localization might be a good indicator of developmental instability in individuals with an altered neurodevelopment and show potential as biomarkers of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this study, fingerprint pattern counts and fluctuating asymmetry in the distribution of patterns are compared between 67 boys diagnosed with ASD (aged 5.11 ± 2.51 years) and 83 control boys (aged 8...
December 2023: Developmental Psychobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38010305/the-impact-of-air-pollution-on-neurocognitive-development-adverse-effects-and-health-disparities
#40
REVIEW
Kim-Chi T Pham, Kimberly S Chiew
Air pollution is recognized as a major public health concern. The number of deaths related to ambient air pollution has increased in recent years and is projected to continue rising. Additionally, both short- and long-term air pollution exposure has been linked with deleterious effects on neurocognitive function and development. While air pollution poses as a threat to everyone, people of color and individuals of lower socioeconomic status are often exposed to elevated levels of air pollution as a function of systemic racism and classism...
December 2023: Developmental Psychobiology
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