Perinatal nicotine exposure relates to stimulus-locked event-related potentials in early adolescence during an emotional go/no-go task.

Autor: Lackner CL; Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. Electronic address: christine.lackner@msvu.ca., Thompson B; Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada., Santesso DL; University of Winnipeg, Canada., Wade TJ; Brock University, Canada., Segalowitz SJ; Brock University, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Neurotoxicology and teratology [Neurotoxicol Teratol] 2023 May-Jun; Vol. 97, pp. 107175. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 05.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2023.107175
Abstrakt: Nicotine exposure is associated with negative consequences on the developing brain, both in utero and after birth. We investigated the relationship between perinatal nicotine exposure and electroencephalographic brain activity recorded during an emotional faces Go/No-Go task among adolescents. Seventy-one adolescents aged 12-15 years completed a Go/No-Go task using fearful and happy faces. Parents completed questionnaire measures of their child's temperament and self-regulation and retrospectively reported on nicotine exposure during the perinatal period. Perinatally exposed children (n = 20) showed increased and prolonged frontal event-related potential (ERP) differentiation in stimulus-locked analyses; that is, greater emotion and condition differentiation in comparison with their non-exposed peers (n = 51). However, non-exposed children showed greater late emotion differentiation recorded over posterior sites. Response-locked ERP differences were not found. ERP effects were not related to temperamental, self-regulatory, or parental education and income-related factors. This study is the first to demonstrate a relationship between perinatal nicotine exposure and ERPs in an emotional Go/No-Go task among adolescents. Findings suggest that while conflict detection remains intact for adolescents with perinatal nicotine exposure, their attentional allocation to behaviourally relevant stimuli may be magnified to beyond optimal levels, particularly when emotion is salient in information processing. Future studies can extend these findings by isolating prenatal nicotine exposure and comparing its effects to isolated postnatal exposure and clarifying the implications of the face and performance processing differences in adolescence.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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