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@ARTICLE{Dahmen:851339,
author = {Dahmen, Brigitte and Puetz, Vanessa B. and Scharke,
Wolfgang and von Polier, Georg G. and Herpertz-Dahlmann,
Beate and Konrad, Kerstin},
title = {{E}ffects of {E}arly-{L}ife {A}dversity on {H}ippocampal
{S}tructures and {A}ssociated {HPA} {A}xis {F}unctions},
journal = {Developmental neuroscience},
volume = {40},
number = {1},
issn = {1421-9859},
address = {Basel},
publisher = {Karger},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-05024},
pages = {13 - 22},
year = {2018},
abstract = {Early-life adversity (ELA) is one of the major risk factors
for serious mental and physical health risks later in life.
ELA has been associated with dysfunctional neurodevelopment,
especially in brain structures such as the hippocampus, and
with dysfunction of the stress system, including the
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Children who have
experienced ELA are also more likely to suffer from mental
health disorders such as depression later in life. The exact
interplay of aberrant neurodevelopment and HPA axis
dysfunction as risks for psychopathology is not yet clear.
We investigated volume differences in the bilateral
hippocampus and in stress-sensitive hippocampal subfields,
behavior problems, and diurnal cortisol activity in 24
children who had experienced documented ELA (including
out-of-home placement) in a circumscribed duration of
adversity only in their first 3 years of life in comparison
to data on 25 control children raised by their biological
parents. Hippocampal volumes and stress-sensitive
hippocampal subfields (Cornu ammonis [CA]1, CA3, and the
granule-cell layer of the dentate gyrus [GCL-DG]) were
significantly smaller in children who had experienced ELA,
taking psychiatric diagnoses and dimensional
psychopathological symptoms into account. ELA moderated the
relationship between left hippocampal volume and cortisol:
in the control group, hippocampal volumes were not related
to diurnal cortisol, while in ELA children, a positive
linear relationship between left hippocampal volume and
diurnal cortisol was present. Our findings show that ELA is
associated with altered development of the hippocampus, and
an altered relationship between hippocampal volume and HPA
axis activity in youth in care, even after they have lived
in stable and caring foster family environments for years.
Altered hippocampal development after ELA could thus be
associated with a risk phenotype for the development of
psychiatric disorders later in life.},
cin = {INM-3 / JARA-BRAIN},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406 / $I:(DE-82)080010_20140620$},
pnm = {572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-572},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:29237154},
UT = {WOS:000428954300002},
doi = {10.1159/000484238},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/851339},
}