Validation of autonomic and endocrine reactivity to a laboratory stressor in young children

Roos, Leslie E.; Giuliano, Ryan J.; Beauchamp, Kathryn G.; Gunnar, Megan R.; Amidon, Brigette; Fisher, Philip A.

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.11.023

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“…As previously reported, between group repeated measures ANOVAs confirmed that the acute stressor elicited significant responsivity across systems compared to the control condition, including greater RSA withdrawal and greater shortening of PEP (Roos, Giuliano, et al, ). Paired sample t tests within the stressor group further characterized the reactivity, with significant changes from second half of the matching task for RSA and PEP.…”

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“…The stressor employed in this study was a matching task adapted from previous research (Kryski, Smith, Sheikh, Singh, & Hayden, ; Tolep & Dougherty, ) and described in detail elsewhere (Roos, Giuliano, et al, ). Briefly, across stressor and control conditions, children played a matching game in which they were asked to use a color‐coded legend to match colored stickers to transportation types on a worksheet with 30 squares to complete.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The acute stressor employed in this study affords the unique opportunity to test theories about the role of ANS activity and concurrent cognitive function under conditions where PNS and SNS levels are manipulated in a targeted direction to facilitate rapid responding under social threat (SNS engagement, PNS disengagement; Roos, Giuliano, et al, ). The role of SNS reactivity in supporting cognitive performance is debated, with some theories suggesting that engagement reflects the appropriate allocation of physiological resources, whereas other theories suggest that engagement may reflect a perception of low baseline resources and high resource mobilization needs resulting in an over‐aroused state (reviewed in Mendes & Park, ).…”

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Despite evidence that acute stress impairs attention in adults, there has been minimal research in children. Here, the effects of acute stress on Go/No-go performance were examined in young children (M age = 5.41 years). Given the critical role of the parent-child relationship to children's self-regulatory development, the extent to which parenting stress predicts children's cognitive vulnerability to acute stress and autonomic reactivity was also investigated. A between-groups design (n = 58 stress, n = 26 control) was used with oversampling of the stressor-exposed children to examine individual differences. The Parenting Stress Index and subscales were employed as a measure of parenting stress. Acute stress impaired children's sustained attention, but not inhibitory control. Higher parenting stress was associated with vulnerability to attentional impairment. Parenting distress was also positively associated with sympathetic reactivity to acute stress, but neither sympathetic nor parasympathetic reactivity was associated with attentional impairment. A conceptual model of pathways through which repetitive acute stress may contribute to self-regulatory difficulties is presented, including the potential buffering role of caregivers. K E Y W O R D Sacute stress, parenting stress, sustained attention | 533 ROOS et al.

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“…In order to measure the microbiome, we collected stool from 40 children from a mid-size city in the Pacific Northwest that were already participating in a larger study (25). Parents of the children filled out questionnaires regarding five covariate categories: socioeconomic risk, behavioral dysregulation, caregiver behavior, demography, and gut-related history (i.e., factors known to influence microbiome composition such as antibiotic use).…”

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“…We started by testing the associations between the taxonomic composition of the microbiome and the selected socioeconomic risk and caregiver behavior covariates. To maximize scientific rigor, we constructed a CCA model, which is based on a Euclidian distance, that first accounted for the selected demography (child ethnicity) and the selected gut-linked covariates (previously shown to influence gut [25–28]; geographic location) by determining the amount of variance explained. These two demography and gut history covariates accounted for 19.9% of the total variance in taxonomic composition.…”

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Gut feelings begin in childhood: how the gut metagenome links to early environment, caregiving, and behavior

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32Psychosocial environments impact normative behavioral development in children, increasing the 33 risk of problem behaviors and psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. Converging evidence 34 demonstrates early normative development is affected by the gut microbiome, which itself can be 35 altered by early psychosocial environments. Nevertheless, these relationships are poorly 36 understood in childhood, particularly beyond peri-and postnatal microbial colonization. To 37 determine the gut microbiome's role in the associations between childhood adversity and 38 behavioral development, we conducted a metagenomic investigation among cross-sectional 39 sample of early school-aged children with a range of adverse experiences and caregiver stressors 40 and relationships. Our results indicate that the taxonomic and functional composition of the gut 41 microbiome links to behavioral dysregulation during a critical period of child development. 42Furthermore, our analysis reveals that both socioeconomic risk exposure and child behaviors 43 associate with the relative abundances of specific taxa (e.g., Bacteroides and Bifidobacterium 44 species) as well as functional modules encoded in their genomes (e.g., monoamine metabolism) 45that have been linked to cognition and health. We also identified heretofore novel linkages 46 between gut microbiota, their functions, and behavior. These findings hold important 47 translational implications for developmental psychology and microbiome sciences alike, as they 48suggest that caregiver behavior might mitigate the impact of socioeconomic risk on the 49 microbiome and modify the relationship between subclinical symptoms of behavioral 50 dysregulation and the gut microbiome in early school-aged children. 51 52

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Autonomic nervous system functioning in early childhood: Responses to cognitive and negatively valenced emotional challenges

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Leerkes

2019

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Although autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning is “context‐dependent,” few studies examined children's normative sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic responses to distinct challenges in early childhood years. Examining children's ANS responsivity to distinct challenges is important for understanding normative autonomic responses toward everyday life stressors and identifying paradigms that effectively elicit a “stress response.” We examined children's (N = 278) sympathetic (preejection period [PEP]) and parasympathetic (respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]) responses to cognitive (i.e., problem‐solving and cognitive control) and negatively valenced emotional (i.e., blocked goal and unfairness) challenges in preschool, kindergarten, and grade 1. Children, on average, demonstrated parasympathetic inhibition (RSA withdrawal) in response to all challenges but the magnitude of these responses depended on the task. Children showed sympathetic activation (PEP shortening) toward the problem‐solving task at each assessment and there was no sample‐level change in the magnitude of this response over time. Children showed greater sympathetic responsivity toward the cognitive control task over time, with evidence for a sympathetic activation response only in grade 1. Children experienced sympathetic inhibition (PEP lengthening) toward the unfairness tasks but did not experience significant sympathetic responsivity toward the blocked goal tasks. Parasympathetic responsivity to most challenges were modestly stable but there was no stability in sympathetic responsivity across time.

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Validation of autonomic and endocrine reactivity to a laboratory stressor in young children

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Acute stress impairs children's sustained attention with increased vulnerability for children of mothers reporting higher parenting stress

Acute stress impairs children's sustained attention with increased vulnerability for children of mothers reporting higher parenting stress

Gut feelings begin in childhood: how the gut metagenome links to early environment, caregiving, and behavior

Autonomic nervous system functioning in early childhood: Responses to cognitive and negatively valenced emotional challenges

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