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Predicting change trajectories of neuroticism from baseline brain structure using whole brain analyses and latent growth curve models in adolescents

  • Simone Kühn
  • , Anna Mascherek*
  • , Tobias Banaschewski
  • , Arun L.W. Bokde
  • , Christian Büchel
  • , Erin Burke Quinlan
  • , Sylvane Desrivières
  • , Herta Flor
  • , Antoine Grigis
  • , Hugh Garavan
  • , Penny Gowland
  • , Andreas Heinz
  • , Bernd Ittermann
  • , Jean Luc Martinot
  • , Marie Laure Paillère Martinot
  • , Frauke Nees
  • , Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos
  • , Tomáš Paus
  • , Luise Poustka
  • , Sabina Millenet
  • Juliane H. Fröhner, Michael N. Smolka, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Gunter Schumann, Ulman Lindenberger, Jürgen Gallinat
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf und Medizinische Fakultat
  • Max-Planck-Institute-for-Human-Development
  • Universitatsklinikum Mannheim
  • Department of Urology
  • Heidelberg University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • University of Vermont
  • University of Nottingham
  • Institute for Radiology, CCM
  • Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
  • University of Paris XI - University of Paris-Sud
  • University Health Network, Toronto
  • University Medical Center Göttingen
  • Medical University of Vienna
  • TU Dresden
  • Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research

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Abstract

Adolescence is a vulnerable time for personality development. Especially neuroticism with its link to the development of psychopathology is of interest concerning influential factors. The present study exploratorily investigates neuroanatomical signatures for developmental trajectories of neuroticism based on a voxel-wise whole-brain structural equation modelling framework. In 1,814 healthy adolescents of the IMAGEN sample, the NEO-FFI was acquired at three measurement occasions across five years. Based on a partial measurement invariance second-order latent growth curve model we conducted whole-brain analyses on structural MRI data at age 14 years, predicting change in neuroticism over time. We observed that a reduced volume in the pituitary gland was associated with the slope of neuroticism over time. However, no relations with prefrontal areas emerged. Both findings are discussed against the background of possible genetic and social influences that may account for this result.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1207
JournalScientific Reports
Volume10
Issue number1
Early online date27 Jan 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jan 2020

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