Resting gamma power during the postnatal critical period for GABAergic system development is modulated by infant diet and sex

Pivik, R.T.; Andres, Aline; Tennal, K.B.; Gu, Yuyuan; Downs, Heather; Bellando, Betty Jayne; Jarratt, Kelly; Cleves, Mario A.; Badger, Thomas M.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.11.004

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“…In the two-month-olds, this analysis revealed the greatest concentration of prefrontal activation of both gamma and beta in the BF infants, with the least prefrontal activity in the SF infants ( Figure 3 A,B). Higher prefrontal activation in these frequency bands is consistent with our results in sensor space and provides a more accurate spatial reconstruction of the regional activation seen in previous studies [ 41 ]. Source space reconstructions for the six-month-olds revealed similar patterns of higher prefrontal activation in higher frequencies for the BF groups compared to the MF and particularly the SF groups ( Figure 4 A,C).…”

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“…Significant differences between the dietary group and delta, theta, and alpha were not observed for any age group. Previous studies using a subset of this data observed regional cortical differences inferred from the EEG sensor placements [ 33 , 41 ]; however, our global analysis exploring gross differences in band power did not observe these effects. At 2 months of age, significant differences in the dietary group were seen in gamma ( F = 3.215, p = 0.04), and further post hoc testing found BF infants had significantly higher gamma than SF ( p = 0.014).…”

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“…We hypothesized that differences in spectral power between dietary groups would be visually distinct in source space, with the BF infants having a higher beta/gamma power in frontal regions compared to SF infants based on previous findings in the literature [ 31 , 41 ]. Our results support this hypothesis, although the differences at 2 months are more apparent than those in the six-month age group.…”

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Effects of Early Nutrition Factors on Baseline Neurodevelopment during the First 6 Months of Life: An EEG Study

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Throughout infancy, the brain undergoes rapid changes in structure and function that are sensitive to environmental influences, such as diet. Breastfed (BF) infants score higher on cognitive tests throughout infancy and into adolescence than formula fed (FF) infants, and these differences in neurocognitive development are reflected in higher concentrations of white and grey matter as measured by MRI. To further explore the effect diet has on cognitive development, electroencephalography (EEG) is used as a direct measure of neuronal activity and to assess specific frequency bands associated with cognitive processes. Task-free baseline EEGs were collected from infants fed with human milk (BF), dairy-based formula (MF), or soy-based formula (SF) at 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 months of age to explore differences in frequency bands in both sensor and source space. Significant global differences in sensor space were seen in beta and gamma bands between BF and SF groups at ages 2 and 6 months, and these differences were further observed through volumetric modeling in source space. We conclude that BF infants exhibit earlier brain maturation reflected in greater power spectral density in these frequency bands.

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“…A demonstrated association was also shown between infant diet and early postnatal development of gamma EEG activity, which is sensitive to the development of the GABAergic system ( 135 ). EEG activity during infancy was also shown to differ between infants who are fed through breastfeeding versus milk or soy formula, possibly suggesting that EEG measures may reflect environmental- or diet-related influences on the development of brain function that could lead to different neurodevelopmental trajectories ( 136 ).…”

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A Role for Data Science in Precision Nutrition and Early Brain Development

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Multimodal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide biomarkers of early influences on neurodevelopment such as nutrition, environmental and genetic factors. As the exposure to early influences can be separated from neurodevelopmental outcomes by many months or years, MRI markers can serve as an important intermediate outcome in multivariate analyses of neurodevelopmental determinants. Key to the success of such work are recent advances in data science as well as the growth of relevant data resources. Multimodal MRI assessment of neurodevelopment can be supplemented with other biomarkers of neurodevelopment such as electroencephalograms, magnetoencephalogram, and non-imaging biomarkers. This review focuses on how maternal nutrition impacts infant brain development, with three purposes: (1) to summarize the current knowledge about how nutrition in stages of pregnancy and breastfeeding impact infant brain development; (2) to discuss multimodal MRI and other measures of early neurodevelopment; and (3) to discuss potential opportunities for data science and artificial intelligence to advance precision nutrition. We hope this review can facilitate the collaborative march toward precision nutrition during pregnancy and the first year of life.

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“…Yet even at 7.5 months of age, infants fail to dissociate sounds that differ in duration by less than ∼75 ms [12]. This slowness is explained by neurobiological immaturity at birth: Fast electrophysiological activity which is required for phoneme-rate auditory and feature processing [9,13] only emerges after birth and approaches adult speeds across infancy and childhood [14][15][16]. In line with this temporal constraint, newborns initially focus on slow prosodic modulations (i.e., long units) of speech, shifting towards smaller (i.e., faster) units only later (e.g., syllables, phonemes [17]).…”

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Early Acquisition of Phonological Categories Depends on the Duration of Features in Speech

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Meyer³

2022

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During language acquisition, infant speech perception becomes selective for the speech sounds of their native language. It is unclear how infants can infer native speech sounds given a critical neurobiological limitation:The infant brain is too slow to match the rate of speech sounds-or phonemes-in natural speech. Infant brains are characterized exclusively by slow electrophysiological activity. Here we show that early categorical acquisition hinges on the timing of phonological features. In particular, the order of acquisition seems to depend on the duration of features in speech. We employ deconvolution modeling of EEG recorded during speech processing from a large sample of children across the first five years of life. From about 14 months of age, the EEG indicates neural sensitivity to categories that are continuous across sequences of multiple subsequent phonemes, thus fitting infants' long temporal receptive windows. Features that alternate at faster rates are added step by step, with the fastest rates acquired last.Categorical sensitivity was not observed for a non-native baseline. Trajectories of acoustic processing did not differ across native- and non-native languages, suggesting that emerging categorical processing was not driven by an enhancement of auditory processing abilities.Category-continuous stretches may thus allow categorical knowledge to emerge in spite of slow electrophysiology. Early language acquisition may rely on a symmetric relationship between electrophysiological resolution and the timing of the to-be-acquired linguistic units.

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Resting gamma power during the postnatal critical period for GABAergic system development is modulated by infant diet and sex

Cited by 13 publications

References 158 publications

Effects of Early Nutrition Factors on Baseline Neurodevelopment during the First 6 Months of Life: An EEG Study

Effects of Early Nutrition Factors on Baseline Neurodevelopment during the First 6 Months of Life: An EEG Study

A Role for Data Science in Precision Nutrition and Early Brain Development

Early Acquisition of Phonological Categories Depends on the Duration of Features in Speech

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