Andrew P Salzwedel1, Rebecca L Stephens2, Barbara D Goldman3, Weili Lin4, John H Gilmore5, Wei Gao6. 1. Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. 2. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 3. FPG Child Development Institute and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 4. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 5. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Electronic address: jgilmore@med.unc.edu. 6. Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: wei.gao@csmc.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The amygdala represents a core node in the human brain's emotional signal processing circuitry. Given its critical role, both the typical and atypical functional connectivity patterns of the amygdala have been extensively studied in adults. However, the development of amygdala functional connectivity during infancy is less well studied; thus, our understanding of the normal growth trajectory of key emotion-related brain circuits during a critical period is limited. METHODS: In this study, we used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (N = 233 subjects with 334 datasets) to delineate the spatiotemporal dynamics of amygdala functional connectivity development during the first 2 years of life. Their relationships with 4-year emotional (i.e., anxiety and inhibitory self-control parent report measures) and cognitive (i.e., IQ) behavioral outcomes were also assessed using multivariate modeling. RESULTS: Our results revealed nonlinear growth of amygdala functional connectivity during the first 2 years of life, featuring dramatic synchronization during the first year followed by moderate growth or fine tuning during the second year. Importantly, functional connectivity growth during the second year had significant behavioral implications exemplified by multiple significant predictions of 4-year emotional and cognitive developmental outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: The delineation of the spatiotemporal dynamics of amygdala functional connectivity development during infancy and their associations with 4-year behavioral outcomes may provide new references on the early emergence of both typical and atypical emotion processing capabilities.
BACKGROUND: The amygdala represents a core node in the human brain's emotional signal processing circuitry. Given its critical role, both the typical and atypical functional connectivity patterns of the amygdala have been extensively studied in adults. However, the development of amygdala functional connectivity during infancy is less well studied; thus, our understanding of the normal growth trajectory of key emotion-related brain circuits during a critical period is limited. METHODS: In this study, we used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (N = 233 subjects with 334 datasets) to delineate the spatiotemporal dynamics of amygdala functional connectivity development during the first 2 years of life. Their relationships with 4-year emotional (i.e., anxiety and inhibitory self-control parent report measures) and cognitive (i.e., IQ) behavioral outcomes were also assessed using multivariate modeling. RESULTS: Our results revealed nonlinear growth of amygdala functional connectivity during the first 2 years of life, featuring dramatic synchronization during the first year followed by moderate growth or fine tuning during the second year. Importantly, functional connectivity growth during the second year had significant behavioral implications exemplified by multiple significant predictions of 4-year emotional and cognitive developmental outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: The delineation of the spatiotemporal dynamics of amygdala functional connectivity development during infancy and their associations with 4-year behavioral outcomes may provide new references on the early emergence of both typical and atypical emotion processing capabilities.
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