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Alexithymia, body mass index and gestational diabetes in pregnant women — FinnBrain birth cohort study
<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>Overweight, obesity, and associated problems in metabolic health are an increasing public health concern. Personality traits and emotional processing styles may play a role in the regulation of food intake and reward. Alexithymia is a personality construct involving difficulties in identifying and expressing emotions and has been previously associated with eating disorders and metabolic problems. We examined associations between alexithymia dimensions, Body Mass Index (BMI) and gestational diabetes in pregnant women.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The participants were 1660 pregnant women living in Finland from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. We investigated the associations between alexithymia and its dimensions as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), overweight, and gestational diabetes. The effects of age, education, and depressive symptoms were controlled for using hierarchical regression analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Alexithymic individuals had a higher prevalence of overweight compared to those with low or moderate levels of alexithymia (66.0% vs. 34.8%, OR 3.6, adjusted OR 3.6, CI95% 1.9–6.8, p < .001). The dimension of Externally Oriented Thinking (EOT) accounted for this association. Compared to the lowest quartile, women in the highest EOT quartile had a higher BMI (24.3 vs. 25.6, p < .001), and a higher prevalence of overweight [adjusted OR 1.94, CI95% 1.43–2.62, p < .001] and gestational diabetes [OR 1.75, CI95% 1.19–2.55, p = .005].</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Alexithymia, and especially its dimension of EOT is associated with overweight and gestational diabetes in pregnant women. Future studies should clarify causality and examine potential mechanisms and associations with pregnancy outcomes and fetal health.</p></div>...
Childhood physical abuse and emotional neglect are specifically associated with adult mental disorders
<p><b>Background:</b> Childhood adversities and trauma (CAT) are associated with adult mental disorders. Nevertheless, although CAT of different domains mostly co-occurs, and co-morbidity is common, the associations between ...
Early maladaptive schemas and psychiatric symptoms in adolescence
<p>Early maladaptive schemas (EMS) represent harmful schemas that are rooted in childhood experiences. Schema therapy is an integrative psychotherapeutic approach and its main aim is to find feasible ways of meeting ...
Healthy full-term infants’ brain responses to emotionally and linguistically relevant sounds using a multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm
<p>We evaluated the feasibility of a multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm in studying auditory processing of healthy newborns. The aim was to examine the automatic change-detection and processing of semantic ...
Is Antidepressant Use Associated With Difficulty Identifying Feelings? A Brief Report
<p>Studies on the subjective effects of antidepressants suggest that they may not only improve depressed mood, but as an adverse effect also cause "emotional blunting." This phenomenon is poorly understood and little ...
Feasibility of FreeSurfer Processing for T1-Weighted Brain Images of 5-Year-Olds: Semiautomated Protocol of FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab
<p>Pediatric neuroimaging is a quickly developing field that still faces important methodological challenges. Pediatric images usually have more motion artifact than adult images. The artifact can cause visible errors in ...
Latent Structure of Executive Functioning/Learning Tasks in the CogState Computerized Battery
This study tested whether executive functioning (EF)/learning tasks from the CogState computerized test battery show a unitary latent structure. This information is important for the construction of composite measures on ...
The association of maternal-fetal attachment with smoking and smoking cessation during pregnancy in The FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
BackgroundSmoking in pregnancy constitutes a preventable risk factor for fetal/child development and maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) seems to contain a momentum that can break the chain of adverse outcomes by promoting ...
Longitudinal brain morphology in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: a case report with controls
<p>Background</p><p>Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate-receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a severe autoimmune condition, which typically affects young females. The long-term clinical consequences and brain morphology changes after ...
Brain structural alterations in autism and criminal psychopathy
The goal of this study was to elucidate the anatomical brain basis of social cognition through two disorders with distinctively different phenotypes of social interaction. We compared structural MR images of 20 individuals ...