dc.contributor.author | León, Inmaculada | |
dc.contributor.author | Rodrigo, María José | |
dc.contributor.author | Quiñones, Ileana | |
dc.contributor.author | Hernández‐Cabrera, Juan Andrés | |
dc.contributor.author | García‐Pentón, Lorna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-24T14:49:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-24T14:49:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | León, I.; Rodrigo, M.J.; Quiñones, I.; Hernández-Cabrera, J.A.; García-Pentón, L. Distinctive Frontal and Occipitotemporal Surface Features in Neglectful Parenting. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 387. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11030387 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2076-3425 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/50767 | |
dc.description | Published: 18 March 2021 | es_ES |
dc.description.abstract | Although the brain signatures of adaptive human parenting are well documented, the cortical features associated with maladaptive caregiving are underexplored. We investigated whether cortical thickness and surface area vary in a small group of mothers who had neglected their children (24 in the neglect group, NG) compared to a control group of mothers with non-neglectful caregiving (21 in the control group, CG). We also tested whether the cortical differences were related to dyadic mother-child emotional availability (EA) in a play task with their children and whether alexithymia involving low emotional awareness that characterizes the NG could play a role in the cortical-EA associations. Whole-brain analysis of the cortical mantle identified reduced cortical thickness in the right rostral middle frontal gyrus and an increased surface area in the right lingual and lateral occipital cortices for the NG with respect to the CG. Follow-up path analysis showed direct effects of the right rostral middle frontal gyrus (RMFG) on the emotional availability (EA) and on the difficulty to identify feelings (alexithymia factor), with a marginal indirect RMFG-EA effect through this factor. These preliminary findings extend existing work by implicating differences in cortical features associated with neglectful parenting and relevant to mother-child interactive bonding. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and
the European Regional Development Fund, grant number RTI2018‐098149‐B‐I00 to M.J.R. and I.L,
and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie
Sklodowska‐Curie Individual Fellowship, grant agreement number 893329 to L.G.P. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Brain sciences | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/RTI2018-098149‐B‐I00 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/MC/893329 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.subject | neglectful parenting | es_ES |
dc.subject | cortical thickness | es_ES |
dc.subject | surface area | es_ES |
dc.subject | alexithymia | es_ES |
dc.subject | mother-child interaction | es_ES |
dc.title | Distinctive Frontal and Occipitotemporal Surface Features in Neglectful Parenting | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee
MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
This article is an open access article
distributed under the terms and conditions
of the Creative Commons Attribution
(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.
org/licenses/by/4.0/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/brainsci | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/brainsci11030387 | |