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Impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on neurobehavioral functioning and its association with large-scale brain networks in preterm young adolescents

Siffredi, Vanessa  
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Liverani, Maria Chiara
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Fernandez, Natalia
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May 17, 2024
Psychiatry And Clinical Neurosciences

Aim: Adolescents born very preterm (VPT; <32 weeks of gestation) face an elevated risk of executive, behavioral, and socioemotional difficulties. Evidence suggests beneficial effects of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on these abilities. This study seeks to investigate the association between the effects of MBI on executive, behavioral, and socioemotional functioning and reliable changes in large-scale brain networks dynamics during rest in VPT young adolescents who completed an 8-week MBI program. Methods: Neurobehavioral assessments and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging were performed before and after MBI in 32 VPT young adolescents. Neurobehavioral abilities in VPT participants were compared with full-term controls. In the VPT group, dynamic functional connectivity was extracted by using the innovation-driven coactivation patterns framework. The reliable change index was used to quantify change after MBI. A multivariate data-driven approach was used to explore associations between MBI-related changes on neurobehavioral measures and temporal brain dynamics. Results: Compared with term-born controls, VPT adolescents showed reduced executive and socioemotional functioning before MBI. After MBI, a significant improvement was observed for all measures that were previously reduced in the VPT group. The increase in executive functioning, only, was associated with reliable changes in the duration of activation of large-scale brain networks, including frontolimbic, amygdala-hippocampus, dorsolateral prefrontal, and visual networks. Conclusion: The improvement in executive functioning after an MBI was associated with reliable changes in large-scale brain network dynamics during rest. These changes encompassed frontolimbic, amygdala-hippocampus, dorsolateral prefrontal, and visual networks that are related to different executive processes including self-regulation, attentional control, and attentional awareness of relevant sensory stimuli.

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research article
DOI
10.1111/pcn.13675
Web of Science ID

WOS:001224924300001

Author(s)
Siffredi, Vanessa  
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Liverani, Maria Chiara
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Fernandez, Natalia
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Freitas, Lorena G. A.
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Tolsa, Cristina Borradori
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Van De Ville, Dimitri  
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Huppi, Petra Susan
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Leuchter, Russia Ha-Vinh
Date Issued

2024-05-17

Publisher

Wiley

Published in
Psychiatry And Clinical Neurosciences
Subjects

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

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Adolescence

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Dynamic Functional Connectivity

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Intervention

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Mindfulness

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Preterm

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REVIEWED

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MIPLAB  
FunderGrant Number

Swiss National Science Foundation (Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung)

324730_163084

Universite de Geneve

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June 5, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/208383
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