Medical Institute of Developmental Disabilities Research, Showa University, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Neuroimage. 2020 Oct 1;219:117013. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117013. Epub 2020 Jun 3.
The child-parent relationship is a significant factor in an adolescent's well-being and functional outcomes. Epidemiological evidence indicates that relationships with the father and mother are differentially associated with specific psychobehavioral problems that manifest differentially between boys and girls. Neuroimaging is expected to bridge the gap in understanding such a complicated mapping between the child-parent relationships and adolescents' problems. However, possible differences in the effects of child-father and child-mother relationships on sexual dimorphism in children's brains and psychobehavioral problems have not been examined yet. This study used a dataset of 10- to 13-year-old children (N = 93) to reveal the triad of associations among child-parent relationship, brain, and psychobehavioral problems by separately estimating the respective effects of child-father and child-mother relationships on boys and girls. We first fitted general linear models to identify the effects of paternal and maternal relationships in largely different sets of children's resting-state functional connectivity, which we term paternal and maternal functional brain connectomes (FBCs). We then performed connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM) to predict children's externalizing and internalizing problems from these parental FBCs. The models significantly predicted a range of girls' internalizing problems, whereas the prediction of boys' aggression was also significant using a more liberal uncorrected threshold. A series of control analyses confirmed that CPMs using FBCs associated with peer relationship or family socioeconomic status failed to make significant predictions of psychobehavioral problems. Lastly, a causal discovery method identified causal paths from daughter-mother relationship to maternal FBC, and then to daughter's internalizing problems. These observations indicate sex-dependent mechanisms linking child-parent relationship, brain, and psychobehavioral problems in the development of early adolescence.
亲子关系是青少年幸福感和功能结果的重要因素。流行病学证据表明,与父亲和母亲的关系与特定的心理行为问题相关,这些问题在男孩和女孩之间表现不同。神经影像学有望弥合理解这种儿童-父母关系与青少年问题之间复杂映射的差距。然而,儿童与父亲和母亲的关系对儿童大脑和心理行为问题的性别二态性的影响可能存在差异,尚未得到检验。本研究使用了 10 至 13 岁儿童的数据集(N=93),通过分别估计父子关系和母子关系对男孩和女孩的各自影响,揭示了亲子关系、大脑和心理行为问题之间的三联体关联。我们首先拟合了一般线性模型,以确定父系和母系关系在儿童静息态功能连接的大不相同的集合中的影响,我们将其称为父系和母系功能脑连接组(FBC)。然后,我们进行了基于连接组的预测建模(CPM),以从这些父母的 FBC 预测儿童的外化和内化问题。这些模型显著预测了一系列女孩的内化问题,而使用更宽松的未校正阈值,男孩的攻击性预测也具有统计学意义。一系列控制分析证实,使用与同伴关系或家庭社会经济地位相关的 FBC 的 CPM 无法对心理行为问题做出显著预测。最后,因果发现方法确定了从女儿-母亲关系到母亲 FBC,再到女儿内化问题的因果路径。这些观察结果表明,在早期青春期的发展过程中,存在着性别依赖的机制,将亲子关系、大脑和心理行为问题联系起来。