PMID- 35717524 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220621 LR - 20240214 IS - 2158-3188 (Electronic) IS - 2158-3188 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 1 DP - 2022 Jun 18 TI - Early-life stress exposure and large-scale covariance brain networks in extremely preterm-born infants. PG - 256 LID - 10.1038/s41398-022-02019-4 [doi] LID - 256 AB - The stressful extrauterine environment following premature birth likely has far-reaching and persistent adverse consequences. The effects of early "third-trimester" ex utero stress on large-scale brain networks' covariance patterns may provide a potential avenue to understand how early-life stress following premature birth increases risk or resilience. We evaluated the impact of early-life stress exposure (e.g., quantification of invasive procedures) on maturational covariance networks (MCNs) between 30 and 40 weeks of gestational age in 180 extremely preterm-born infants (<28 weeks of gestation; 43.3% female). We constructed MCNs using covariance of gray matter volumes between key nodes of three large-scale brain networks: the default mode network (DMN), executive control network (ECN), and salience network (SN). Maturational coupling was quantified by summating the number of within- and between-network connections. Infants exposed to high stress showed significantly higher SN but lower DMN maturational coupling, accompanied by DMN-SN decoupling. Within the SN, the insula, amygdala, and subthalamic nucleus all showed higher maturational covariance at the nodal level. In contrast, within the DMN, the hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and fusiform showed lower coupling following stress. The decoupling between DMN-SN was observed between the insula/anterior cingulate cortex and posterior parahippocampal gyrus. Early-life stress showed longitudinal network-specific maturational covariance patterns, leading to a reprioritization of developmental trajectories of the SN at the cost of the DMN. These alterations may enhance the ability to cope with adverse stimuli in the short term but simultaneously render preterm-born individuals at a higher risk for stress-related psychopathology later in life. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s). FAU - Lammertink, Femke AU - Lammertink F AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3481-2544 AD - Department of Neonatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. FAU - van den Heuvel, Martijn P AU - van den Heuvel MP AD - Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. AD - Department of Child Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. FAU - Hermans, Erno J AU - Hermans EJ AD - Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. AD - Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. FAU - Dudink, Jeroen AU - Dudink J AD - Department of Neonatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. FAU - Tataranno, Maria L AU - Tataranno ML AD - Department of Neonatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. FAU - Benders, Manon J N L AU - Benders MJNL AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5491-9168 AD - Department of Neonatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. m.benders@umcutrecht.nl. FAU - Vinkers, Christiaan H AU - Vinkers CH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3698-0744 AD - Department of Anatomy & Neurosciences, Amsterdam UMC (location Vrije University Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. AD - Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC (location Vrije University Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. LA - eng GR - EP-C-16-015/EPA/EPA/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220618 PL - United States TA - Transl Psychiatry JT - Translational psychiatry JID - 101562664 SB - IM EIN - Transl Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 8;12(1):269. PMID: 35803903 MH - *Adverse Childhood Experiences MH - *Brain/diagnostic imaging/growth & development MH - *Brain Mapping MH - Female MH - Humans MH - *Infant, Extremely Premature MH - Infant, Newborn MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging MH - Male MH - Nerve Net/diagnostic imaging MH - *Premature Birth PMC - PMC9206645 COIS- The content is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agencies. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/06/19 06:00 MHDA- 2022/06/22 06:00 PMCR- 2022/06/18 CRDT- 2022/06/18 23:55 PHST- 2021/03/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/06/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/05/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/06/18 23:55 [entrez] PHST- 2022/06/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/06/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/06/18 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1038/s41398-022-02019-4 [pii] AID - 2019 [pii] AID - 10.1038/s41398-022-02019-4 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Transl Psychiatry. 2022 Jun 18;12(1):256. doi: 10.1038/s41398-022-02019-4.