ArticleThe American journal of psychiatry2010
Hurtful words: association of exposure to peer verbal abuse with elevated psychiatric symptom scores and corpus callosum abnormalities.
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- Child sexual abuse versus adult sexual assault: A review of psychological and neurobiological sequelae.Mental health science · 2024Article
- Atypical brain structural connectivity and social cognition in childhood maltreatment and peer victimisation.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Enhanced interhemispheric resting-state functional connectivity of the visual network is an early treatment response of paroxetine in patients with panic disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Internal capsule microstructure mediates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and PTSD following adulthood trauma exposure.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Article
- Effects of Parental Verbal Abuse Experience on the Glutamate Response to Swear Words in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex: A FunctionalClinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
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- Connecting the dots: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2022Article
- Gender-Specific Significance of Peer Abuse during Childhood and Adolescence on Physical and Mental Health in Adulthood-Results from a Cross-Sectional Study in a Sample of Hospital Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Addressing the biological embedding of early life adversities (ELA) among adults through mindfulness: Proposed mechanisms and review of converging evidence.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
- Recognizing the importance of childhood maltreatment as a critical factor in psychiatric diagnoses, treatment, research, prevention, and education.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Review
- Predicting the risk of HIV infection among internal migrant MSM in China: An optimal model based on three variable selection methods.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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- Peer Victimization Influences Attention Processing Beyond the Effects of Childhood Maltreatment by Caregivers.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Neurobiological mechanisms of early life adversity, blunted stress reactivity and risk for addiction.Neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- Nitric Oxide Synthase Type 1 Methylation Is Associated With White Matter Microstructure in the Corpus Callosum and Greater Panic Disorder Severity Among Panic Disorder Patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivePrevious studies have shown that exposure to parental verbal abuse in childhood is associated with higher rates of adult psychopathology and alterations in brain structure. In this study the authors sought to examine the symptomatic and neuroanatomic effects, in young adulthood, of exposure to peer verbal abuse during childhood.
methodA total of 848 young adults (ages 18-25 years) with no history of exposure to domestic violence, sexual abuse, or parental physical abuse rated their childhood exposure to parental and peer verbal abuse and completed a self-report packet that included the Kellner Symptom Questionnaire, the Limbic Symptom Checklist-33, and the Dissociative Experiences Scale. Diffusion tensor images were collected for a subset of 63 young adults with no history of abuse or exposure to parental verbal abuse selected for varying degrees of exposure to peer verbal abuse. Images were analyzed using tract-based spatial statistics.
resultsAnalysis of covariance revealed dose-dependent effects of peer verbal abuse on anxiety, depression, anger-hostility, dissociation, "limbic irritability," and drug use. Peer and parental verbal abuse were essentially equivalent in effect size on these ratings. Path analysis indicated that peer verbal abuse during the middle school years had the most significant effect on symptom scores. Degree of exposure to peer verbal abuse correlated with increased mean and radial diffusivity and decreased fractional anisotropy in the corpus callosum and the corona radiata.
conclusionsThese findings parallel results of previous reports of psychopathology associated with childhood exposure to parental verbal abuse and support the hypothesis that exposure to peer verbal abuse is an aversive stimulus associated with greater symptom ratings and meaningful alterations in brain structure.
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