Children with maltreatment exposure exhibit rumination-like spontaneous thought patterns: association with symptoms of depression, subcallosal cingulate cortex thickness, and cortisol levels

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Posted on 4 July 2023

Tags: Brain, Child maltreatment… Show all

Topics: Brain
Populations: Child maltreatment
Publication Types: Journal article, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI & fMRI)
Symptoms: depressive ruminations, depressive symptoms

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‘Children with maltreatment exposure exhibit rumination-like spontaneous thought patterns: association with symptoms of depression, subcallosal cingulate cortex thickness, and cortisol levels’

Open Access paper from the JCPP

Childhood maltreatment is associated with pervasive risk for depression. However, the immediate cognitive and neural mechanisms that mediate this risk during development are unknown. We here studied the impact of maltreatment on self-generated thought (SGT) patterns and their association with depressive symptoms, subcallosal cingulate cortex (SCC) thickness, and cortisol levels in children.

Authors: Ferdinand Hoffmann, Roman Linz, Nikolaus Steinbeis, Martin Bauer, Felix Dammering, Claudia Lazarides, Heiko Klawitter, Lea Bentz, Sonja Entringer, Sibylle M. Winter, Claudia Buss, Christine Heim