Emotional and effortful control abilities in 42-month-old very preterm and full-term children

Witt, Arnaud; Theurel, Anne; Tolsa, Cristina Borradori; Lejeune, Fleur; Fernandes, Lisa; Jonge, Laurence van Hanswijck de; Monnier, Maryline; Graz, Myriam Bickle; Barisnikov, Koviljka; Gentaz, Édouard; Hüppi, Petra Susan

doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2014.07.008

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“…Previous studies showed that preterm children have difficulties with inhibitory control [8] and that these predict later learning and attention problems [21,22]. Our results suggest a dose-response effect of low gestational age at birth on inhibitory control across the whole GA 9 spectrum.…”

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“…Studies have suggested that early self-control abilities (e.g. inhibitory or effortful control) may mediate effects of preterm birth on cognitive outcomes [7,8] and later achievement [9,10]. Inhibitory control predicts the development of the executive attention network [11] and is related to children's executive functions (EFs), high-level cognitive abilities that allow humans to show adaptive, goal-directed behavior in complex situations [12].…”

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“…A recent study suggested that inhibitory control might predict learning and attention regulation abilities at age six years in preterm children [21]. Others have shown that very preterm children have problems with inhibitory control [8] and that these may be associated with delay of frustration as well as attention and behavior problems in preadolescence [22]. Unknown is whether there is a dose-response effect of low gestational age at birth on inhibitory control in toddlers.…”

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Preterm Toddlers' Inhibitory Control Abilities Predict Attention Regulation and Academic Achievement at Age 8 Years

Jaekel

Eryigit-Madzwamuse

Wolke

2016

The Journal of Pediatrics

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Original citation: Jaekel, Julia, Eryigit-Madzwamuse, Suna and Wolke, Dieter. (2015) Preterm toddlers' inhibitory control abilities predict attention regulation and academic achievement at age 8 years. The Journal of Pediatrics .doi: 10.1016Pediatrics .doi: 10. /j.jpeds.2015 Permanent WRAP url: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/74456 Copyright and reuse:The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-forprofit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Study design. 558 children born at 26-41 weeks gestation were studied as part of a prospective geographically defined longitudinal investigation in Germany. Toddlers' inhibitory control abilities were observed at age 20 months. At 8 years, attention and academic abilities were assessed.Results. The lower children's gestational age, the lower their inhibitory control and the more likely they had poor attention regulation and low academic achievement. Adverse effects of preterm birth on attention and academic outcomes were partially mediated by toddlers' inhibitory control abilities.Conclusion. These findings of early inhibitory control abilities provide new information about the mechanisms linking preterm birth with long-term attention difficulties and academic underachievement.

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Preterm Toddlers' Inhibitory Control Abilities Predict Attention Regulation and Academic Achievement at Age 8 Years

Jaekel

Eryigit-Madzwamuse

Wolke

2016

The Journal of Pediatrics

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“…Importantly, in the current study these results are unlikely to depend on VPT participants’ deficits in attention/processing speed or psychological distress, as their scores on such measures were comparable to controls’. These findings suggest that deficits in emotion recognition – previously reported generically at the age of ⩽5 years (Potharst et al 2013; Witt et al 2014) and specifically for anger and low-intensity stimuli at 8 years (Wocadlo & Rieger, 2006) – persist into adulthood in VPT-born individuals. In the literature, a selective impairment in recognizing angry expressions has been associated with lower social competence in children across different ages (Maxim & Nowicki, 2003).…”

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Altered resting-state functional connectivity in emotion-processing brain regions in adults who were born very preterm

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BackgroundVery preterm birth (VPT; <32 weeks of gestation) has been associated with impairments in emotion regulation, social competence and communicative skills. However, the neuroanatomical mechanisms underlying such impairments have not been systematically studied. Here we investigated the functional integrity of the amygdala connectivity network in relation to the ability to recognize emotions from facial expressions in VPT adults.MethodThirty-six VPT-born adults and 38 age-matched controls were scanned at rest in a 3-T MRI scanner. Resting-state functional connectivity (rs-fc) was assessed with SPM8. A seed-based analysis focusing on three amygdalar subregions (centro-medial/latero-basal/superficial) was performed. Participants’ ability to recognize emotions was assessed using dynamic stimuli of human faces expressing six emotions at different intensities with the Emotion Recognition Task (ERT).ResultsVPT individuals compared to controls showed reduced rs-fc between the superficial subregion of the left amygdala, and the right posterior cingulate cortex (p = 0.017) and the left precuneus (p = 0.002). The VPT group further showed elevated rs-fc between the left superficial amygdala and the superior temporal sulcus (p = 0.008). Performance on the ERT showed that the VPT group was less able than controls to recognize anger at low levels of intensity. Anger scores were significantly associated with rs-fc between the superficial amygdala and the posterior cingulate cortex in controls but not in VPT individuals.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that alterations in rs-fc between the amygdala, parietal and temporal cortices could represent the mechanism linking VPT birth and deficits in emotion processing.

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“…Overall, self-regulation, including crying, feeding, and sleeping problems, and inhibitory control in infancy and toddlerhood have been identified as precursors of impulsivity and inattention, which in turn may lead to more severe problems such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, learning difficulties, and social exclusion (Campbell & von Stauffenberg, 2009;Olson et al, 2002;Sullivan et al, 2015). These associations have also been found in neurologically at-risk populations, that is, preterm children, with inhibitory control predicting ADHD symptoms in childhood (Jaekel, Eryigit-Madzwamuse, & Wolke, 2016;Poehlmann-Tynan et al, 2015;Reveillon, Tolsa, Monnier, Huppi, & Barisnikov, 2016;Witt et al, 2014) and preadolescence (Reveillon et al, 2016). Accordingly, studies investigating the association between early self-regulation and later attention difficulties need to also control for effects of prematurity.…”

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The association of infant crying, feeding, and sleeping problems and inhibitory control with attention regulation at school age

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Jaekel

Breeman

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Infancy

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Regulatory problems in infancy and toddlerhood have previously been associated with an increased risk of developing attention problems in childhood. We hypothesized that early regulatory problems are associated with attention problems via reduced inhibitory control. This prospective study assessed 1,459 children from birth to 8 years. Crying, feeding, and sleeping problems were assessed at 5 and 20 months via parent interviews and neurological examinations. At 20 months, inhibitory control was tested with a behavioral (snack delay) task. Attention regulation was assessed at 6 and 8 years using multiple instruments and informants. Detrimental effects of crying, feeding, and sleeping problems on attention regulation were partly mediated by children's ability to inhibit unwanted behaviors (β = −0.04, p = 0.013). Accounting for cognition diminished this indirect effect (β = −0.01, p = 0.209). Instead, the effects of crying, feeding, and sleeping problems on attention regulation were fully mediated by children's cognitive functioning (β = −0.10, p < 0.001). These results support that inhibitory control abilities partly mediate effects of crying, feeding, and sleeping problems. However, these effects may be accounted for by children's general cognitive abilities. Early regulatory problems may set infants on a course of under control of behavior into school age, and such trajectories are highly associated with general cognitive development.

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Emotional and effortful control abilities in 42-month-old very preterm and full-term children

Cited by 57 publications

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Preterm Toddlers' Inhibitory Control Abilities Predict Attention Regulation and Academic Achievement at Age 8 Years

Preterm Toddlers' Inhibitory Control Abilities Predict Attention Regulation and Academic Achievement at Age 8 Years

Altered resting-state functional connectivity in emotion-processing brain regions in adults who were born very preterm

The association of infant crying, feeding, and sleeping problems and inhibitory control with attention regulation at school age

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