Alexandra Winter, Marius Gruber, Katharina Thiel, Kira Flinkenflügel, Susanne Meinert, Janik Goltermann, Nils R Winter, Tiana Borgers, Frederike Stein, Andreas Jansen, Katharina Brosch, Adrian Wroblewski, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Paula Usemann, Benjamin Straube, Nina Alexander, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Igor Nenadić, Linda M Bonnekoh, Katharina Dohm, Elisabeth J Leehr, Nils Opel, Dominik Grotegerd, Tim Hahn, Martijn P van den Heuvel, Tilo Kircher, Jonathan Repple, Udo Dannlowski
Childhood maltreatment (CM) has been associated with changes in structural brain connectivity even in the absence of mental illness. Social support, an important protective factor in the presence of childhood maltreatment, has been positively linked to white matter integrity. However, the shared effects of current social support and CM and their association with structural connectivity remain to be investigated. They might shed new light on the neurobiological basis of the protective mechanism of social support...
September 15, 2023: Molecular Psychiatry