Corticolimbic Bang for your buck research

In offspring, a MANCOVA showed no significant sex differences for T scores in the BASC-2 PRS scales (Wilks’ Lambda = 0.08, F_(14,4) = 3.33, p = 0.13; Table 1); hence, no post hoc analysis was performed. We performed voxelwise statistical comparisons of correlation coefficients between different parent–offspring pairs to find regions within the corticolimbic ROI in parent–offspring correlations were strongest for mother–daughter pairs. Analyses comparing mother–daughter versus mother–son, mother–daughter versus father–daughter, and mother–daughter versus father–son showed quite similar morphometric association patterns. Specifically, positive correlations between mothers and daughters were significantly greater than for other parent–offspring pairs in many of the corticolimbic structures, including the right amygdala, the bilateral ACC, vmPFC including the bilateral gyrus rectus (more prominent on the left) and bilateral OFC (more prominent on the right), and the right hippocampus and the bilateral parahippocampus gyrus (Fig. 1, Table 2). We also overlapped these brain maps to identify the brain areas that are most strongly correlated in mother–daughter relationships. Although the extent of brain regions became smaller (perhaps because of the conservative nature of conjoint analysis), we still observed significant voxels in the same brain areas (Fig. 2). Read more