%0 Journal Article
%A Pollok, Tania M.
%A Kaiser, Anna
%A Kraaijenvanger, Eline J.
%A Monninger, Maximilian
%A Brandeis, Daniel
%A Banaschewski, Tobias
%A Eickhoff, Simon B.
%A Holz, Nathalie E.
%T Neurostructural traces of early life adversities: A meta-analysis exploring age- and adversity-specific effects
%J Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews
%V 135
%@ 0149-7634
%C Amsterdam [u.a.]
%I Elsevier Science
%M FZJ-2022-01478
%P 104589
%D 2022
%X Early life adversities (ELAs) are associated with an increased risk of psychopathology, with studies suggesting a relation to structural brain alterations. Given the recently growing evidence of ELA effects on brain structure, an updated summary is highly warranted. Therefore, anatomical likelihood estimation was used to conduct a coordinate-based meta-analysis of gray matter volume (GMV) alterations associated with ELAs, including sub-analyses for different age groups and maltreatment as specific ELA-type. The analyses uncovered a convergence of pooled ELA-effects on GMV in the right hippocampus and amygdala and the left inferior frontal gyrus, age-specific effects for the right amygdala and hippocampus in children and adolescents, and maltreatment-specific effects for the right perigenual anterior cingulate cortex in adults. These results reveal a possible underlying commonality in the impact of adversity and also point to specific age and maltreatment effects. They suggest neural markers of ELAs in regions involved in socio-emotional functioning and stress regulation, with the potential to be used as targets for interventions designed to buffer or reverse harmful ELA-effects.
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%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:35189164
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000819835100003
%R 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104589
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/906475